Coach Rob Regish
Listener questions are answered about training, nutrition, supplementation and more.
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[00:00:00] Hey, welcome back to another episode of superhuman radio calling all blueprint or me fall in line too soon on the trigger. I hope I never do that with my hand gun in my hand. Welcome back to super human radio. We have a great show planned for you today. It's the blueprint Paulo where coach Rob reddish answers your questions about training nutrition supplementation, drugs and much more.
[00:00:53] This is a Facebook live event. So you can actually post your questions on this thread of Facebook live. [00:01:00] And we will do our best to answer them along with all the questions that we have in hand already and without further delay. Let's bring coaching calling all blueprint Army fall in line. It's time for the blueprint Power Hour with Coach Rodriguez on the Superhuman Radio Network.
[00:01:22] So when it came time to do the show Coach forgot that we were doing Facebook live and he goes man. I haven't shaved I said, dude. Shaved in three days. Look at this whisker, you know, I'm lucky. It's all gray. You know what that makes it clearer me too. Me too. But yeah, I mean and then and then he goes wait, I got to get the dog out here.
[00:01:40] I said no leave the dog. There will be like Jack LaLanne. Remember when Jacqueline used to bring the white Shepherd's on yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they did. They have it to the show make ginger. The Wonder Dog is usually pretty quiet, but maybe we'll get her to do a cameo a little later and wolves for sure.
[00:01:56] If somebody rings the doorbell, she'll bark for us. At least you're okay [00:02:00] really? So it is we are sitting at 21 degrees and expecting snow once again today here in the great Northeast. So I hope you and other parts of the country are doing well. It seems like an awful cold one though this. Yeah, you guys got the east coast is really gotten hammered you here's the interesting thing about Kentucky.
[00:02:21] We get the weather first and then about a day or two later my buddy in New York tells me he's got that same weather. So it just kind of comes her down and around and goes back up again. Well, you're a Brooklyn boy, so you certainly remember how bad it gets. I remember I remember I think it was 1967 or 68 we had.
[00:02:44] Mayor John Lindsay in office. He was the mayor of New York who was a very charismatic handsome guy very very good-looking guy and that year he decided that all of these trucks they had in the [00:03:00] sanitation department of salting trucks and the snow plows. They're paying all this money to keep them a garage and and he decided, you know, we never use these trucks.
[00:03:10] So let's sell them. And so he sold all the snow plows except for a handful and he sold all the snow that salting trucks up for handful and he was very proud because he literally cut like hundreds of thousands of dollars out of the budget every single month by doing this and that year. We got hit with the worst snowstorm of New York history.
[00:03:33] The city came to a complete standstill and immediately at that moment. It was like no one's going to vote for this guy next time around for mayor and he didn't he got voted out. He was a great mayor but he made that one stupid mistake. And that was the that was the signature of his of his administration.
[00:03:51] Yeah, you know, you just don't do that up here bad bad things happen when nor'easters kickoff, and if you're not ready, you don't have the budget to deal with the [00:04:00] roads it infect about the statement you just made. Is really saying something New York City came to a halt, you know, so even even even the even the training, you know, when I was a kid more there were more trains above ground.
[00:04:15] We call them else for elevated train tracks. Then there were Subway's they were you know, they were building Subways as they were going and I remember the Myrtle Avenue L used to run right past my street. And even the trains were locked up because they couldn't the tracks will you know buried and they couldn't get guys out on the street to clean the tracks and it was just the whole city came to a standstill.
[00:04:40] I think it was 67. I was two years before the Mets won the ship World Series without was 69. So I'm pretty sure it was 67. Yeah. Yeah, you don't better here. But you know what the Springs right around the corner. So let's hope for better days Khalid him Louis is listening live and he [00:05:00] really yeah.
[00:05:00] Yeah, and he's actually we may be related because when I did my 23andMe I found out that I have North and African blood 14% Yeah, 14% North African blood so he may be may actually be my cousin. I'm not sure we'll have to find out was that a surprise for you know, it gets dark is I am come on you just.
[00:05:17] And I look my okay funny story and then we'll get on to the show. I must have been about six or seven years old. My father had a locket. I have it now. It's in my in my my house. My father had a locket. It was a gold locket. It was him and his mother. He was in a sailor suit. He was home on leave and my grandmother consetta was standing next to him.
[00:05:40] Now. I had my first friends as a kid growing up with Robert and Kevin Smith Robert. Evan Smith were black but they had three white siblings and white parents now, I didn't understand I was too young to understand that an Robert mother married a [00:06:00] black I first had two children then married white guy and had three children with him.
[00:06:04] So they had a blend ahead a true blended family. So I didn't understand that. I just assumed that you had black and white in the same family. It was like it was just a crapshoot. That's what happens. I didn't understand that there was a. Guy involved with her first. So when I used to look at pictures of my grandmother, I used to think that that she was black because she was darker than I am.
[00:06:25] She had that kind of kinky hair and she had features that would be a those are that I would say are of like an African American person. So the corner The Corner Grocery Store, Joe and Marie Ricca Italian couple they owned it and one day I went into the store and I said to Marie Rick I had the had the pendant.
[00:06:47] Cadbury you want to see a picture of my black grandmother and she looked at me she says call your grandmother's not black now, they knew my father they grew up together. I said, yeah look and I showed the locket and she laughed [00:07:00] really hard. She says Now call your grandma is not black. She's Italian.
[00:07:03] So my father had to sit me down and tell me the story that Robert and Kevin Smith have a black father and their the twins Patricia and Patrick and then Josephine they were the three white siblings. They had a white father until that moment in time. I just assumed that there was black and white like like the way you have one dog that has brown spots and another dog has black spots.
[00:07:27] They come out of the same mother at the same time. You know, I just figured that's what it was. Yes, so to say that I know I wasn't surprised in. Eliza just did her 23andMe and now she's half Sicilian. She absolutely has African blood in her. She's going to be I said, what are you gonna do when you find out that you're like 7 or 10 percent Northern African and she was laughing and she goes well I said she goes I'll have to figure out at that moment.
[00:07:52] I was like people don't realize we all started from Africa some of us later than others. That's all right, but we all started from Africa [00:08:00] very true. Anyway on that note. Let's get on it. Let me store. Yeah, it's and you know what it actually it served me. Well growing up in Brooklyn because I did not I didn't see people as being different than me to be honest with you.
[00:08:15] Right? I really didn't right. So the first question comes from Andy battle and I'm trying to do a lot of things at one time here. So Andy battle says you once said you learned by watching. Do you still learn by watching? And if so, what does it help you to learn? Well, it's a great question and it is very true that whether whether it's weight training or another discipline, whatever.
[00:08:44] It may be I learn by watching at least initially and and so it pays to go back maybe to where the whole thing started my journey into physical culture. So the very first real gym [00:09:00] that I joined was a place called Central City Gym. Extremely hard cool or in Springfield Massachusetts directly across the street was another real gym by the name of Big Daddy's.
[00:09:14] So there's always this kind of rivalry between the two but suffice to say it was the first real gem that I join. My mom dropped me off. I walk in walk up to the desk and proceed to sign up for I think it was a month. These was back when you can pay cash. And just go month to month. And sometimes you can barter with the guys at the gym.
[00:09:38] But in any case, I remember paying my money and then I remember. Turning to the left where I could see the entire gym floor open and I froze I froze. I'll be very honest and tell you it was it was a mix of curiosity. intimidation. [00:10:00] And those two really sum it up curiosity and intimidation. It was the intimidation factor that kept me on the stool at the desk in the front of the gym for the two hours that I told my mom.
[00:10:16] I would be there and she could come back and pick me up so for two hours. I watched and I studied all of these various men that were lifting these enormous weights gigantic man to my my bear in mind. I'm a hundred and fifty pounds soaking wet at this point, but I noticed something first and foremost.
[00:10:40] They were working all on money lifts, you know big compound lifts. There was very very little. You know direct tricep or even bicep work going on. How long ago was this? Did you say this was 1985. So there were the machines were even Limited at that point in time the types of Machine Vision for very yeah, very limited and that's a [00:11:00] great point.
[00:11:00] There were some Universal machines right? There were still some Nautilus machines, right? But it was nothing like today where you got what Precor and Hammer Strength right stuff like that. Right, right. But eventually I zeroed in on one guy and this guy was most interesting to me because in those lifts were he didn't have to balance the weight like seated cable rows was what I watched him.
[00:11:26] I couldn't believe it he was. He closed his eyes during the set and he seem to be absorbing everything not just physically but mentally psychologically he was going to end I notice that the set got harder and harder. He went to he would pause and he would seem to go to a different place in his mind and the intensity got ratcheted up and then raptured up again and again and again, so it wasn't on that day, but I eventually approached him and a lot of these other [00:12:00] men.
[00:12:01] You know with questions and you know, what almost to a person they were the nicest most helpful guys, you can imagine. I mean, you know the gym atmosphere. Mr. I train today is entirely different. So let's get to that now. You know what I've learned. Typically I'll do cardio on an off day and it's treadmill work if I'm just walking and so I'm observing right because it looks out onto the gym floor and what I see is really interesting first off 75% of the guys that train upper body, maybe more actually I put it at.
[00:12:44] Don't work their legs. They can never work their legs and even fewer of those that do squat. So obviously they're leaving a lot of growth on the table. The other thing I see is routines that are just that [00:13:00] routines, but they're made up of 80% if not 90% relation movements. It's curious though. These guys are pretty darn big and jacked up and I know why because I talked to a lot of them.
[00:13:19] Most of them take a lot of stuff and they'll they freely talk about it openly and it makes you wonder though doesn't it makes you wonder if these guys weren't on those growth drugs. how much muscle growth would they stimulate and ultimately have if 80 or. Percent of the routine. Our little isolation movement, but wait a minute, but Rob I just have to jump in here and just expand on on the discussion for a second.
[00:13:47] Yeah, you know, we love to talk about multi joint movements because they build they build strength adaptation. Right? But when all you're [00:14:00] looking for is hypertrophy. isolation movements have a place in that and and and the. Related effects of isolation movements can then be connected in a to develop the kind of power that you develop a multi joint movements.
[00:14:15] I understand where you're going with this and I agree with you a hundred percent. I just feel sometimes that we we get to narrow and and picking our camp. I think there is a place of isolation when we look I haven't been able to train my legs and over a year now and soon I'll be able to again. But and I don't do I do not do many isolation movements.
[00:14:38] I mean everything I do is push poll I either I'm pressing right or I'm pulling and so I'm I don't train my biceps at all. In fact, I'm I have the smallest biceps in the world for a guy with my strength. I'm being sincere. I yeah I want to but but there is a place of isolation movements. I really do believe that as long as it's like more of a accent, [00:15:00] you know, like we've already done some heavy.
[00:15:03] Stuff and now you're going to just focus on your biceps. Let's say right and I suppose that's a possibility. It also may be that these guys did use big compound lifts build whatever muscle they have and now they're just using isolation movements. I am I'm the polar opposite. In fact guys regularly come up to me.
[00:15:23] They're like, you know, when do you do curls? I don't when you do direct tricep. When do you bench I don't at least not with what with barbells right but much like you. there are there are a lot of guys my size or bigger in the gym, but in almost every case I'm stronger and I'm convinced that's because of.
[00:15:48] The fact that I almost entirely he was big compound movements been doing it for 30 years and as such have built a central nervous [00:16:00] system, that is very secret. Yes and by that, I mean, why are you not much stronger because you've trained your. To simultaneously contracted as many muscle groups as possible which lifts the big way and let's so let's let's let's stay with that for a second because this is an important discussion.
[00:16:19] So the brain is the power. Plant of your city your city is your body and your nervous system is the grid and when you don't train the big movements that require like the deadlift the squad, you know, even the pull up when you don't train these kind of movements that. Require accent activation of stabilizing and accessory muscles as well as direct contraction of the muscles doing the majority of the work that then then then your brain tends to.
[00:16:57] Become a weaker power plant and you have [00:17:00] brownouts for lack of better terms where you know when you went it's all about activating the whole grid. If you can activate the whole grid, then your strength is there and and that takes a lot of repetition of doing work that requires the whole grid to be involved and not just this little this little network of electrical wires that run to this arm and that arm so I'm a.
[00:17:26] Freeman with you that those types of movements build strength, they build and I want to use the word core strength, but they ruined the word core the fitness community so I can't even you but they build overall strength. They build a hearty power plant and grid system to distribute that power.
[00:17:44] Right and then so the final observational make is this because I want to end on a positive note. Jim's at least the ones that I trained in. Do not have any issues with race [00:18:00] relations discrimination even political right is as much as we've been divided politically in this nation. When I go to the gym.
[00:18:12] Yes, there are black people. They're Hispanic. People are white people there Indian people. You know what to me? I don't see any of that. What I see is a person that is interested in bettering themselves in some form or fashion be that getting stronger be that looking better be that both. It's really an interesting.
[00:18:37] Interesting Dynamic it is it is probably the only place I can think of that is wholly integrated. With a just a bunch of people that are willing to help each other regardless of all that other nonsense, you know, what here's the bottom line because this is how I feel. I go to the gym to get away from all that crap, [00:19:00] right, you know, you go to the I go to the gym to get away from the news to get away from the politicians fighting in Washington to get away from, you know, race relation issues.
[00:19:11] We're all there to get better man. And so there's only one race in the gym the human race. Yeah, and this is so true because when you go to the gym you have friends and you all have the same respect for each other because you're there to do the work and that's it. That's the that's the defining Factor.
[00:19:32] If anything you look at people who are their coasting and maybe you think to yourself. Wow, they're just not really getting everything they could out of this. All right, but the reality is it's you're right. It's not about. It's not about who you are at the gym. It's about what you're there for.
[00:19:50] Let's go ahead and get this next question and then we'll take a break. So the next question comes from John. I'm I'm thinking it's Bassy or is it basically do you [00:20:00] have any idea on this but I think is Bassy. Okay. So this is from John Bassy since I came across another podcast. You did a few years ago.
[00:20:08] I think it was muscle in motion or something like that. I found myself nodding my head in agreement with many of the things that you talked about. Do you still do that show? I could not find any new episodes anywhere. Yeah. So prepare yourself for a kind of a sad story I think. I'm not going to use the individuals named his I think the name of his show who was XYZ barbell something or other and in fact, what is it two three years ago.
[00:20:43] Now he contacted me saying hey, you know, would you like to do a show with me? And I said sure, you know, let me let me you know, as a courtesy I ran up by Karl Karl said sure man, go ahead have fun and we did for I [00:21:00] forget. The episodes maybe a Year's worth maybe maybe something more but it all came to a head one day and I know this is gonna sound ludicrous and it is but my computer was scheduled to go into the shop.
[00:21:15] Okay and a broken down and we had an upcoming show schedule at 12 noon. Well the next day let's call it in advance of that show. I had emailed him. As well as you curl and a couple other people informing him that ain't my computer's on the skids. It sounds like from what they're telling me. It'll be ready around 12 noon.
[00:21:43] Therefore I might be a few might be a few minutes late to the show. Well as I'm in line checking out paying for said computer I get a text from this gentleman and he says hey, where are you? You know, it's quarter of and you need to be on the [00:22:00] show. I said, I'll be I'll be at my place either at 12 or at most five minutes late.
[00:22:08] So I actually got there on time at 12 o'clock login and attempted to contact him nothing. Whatsoever his words. He apparently took this as a sign of disrespect and therefore was cutting me out of all future broad. Wait a minute. Who's was this John Gotti's podcast. No. No, it's someone. It is someone I feel oh, I know I know who you're talking about.
[00:22:39] I actually think that he may have he may have been a little unstable and in his defense. Yeah, I think there's an undiagnosed Personality. Yeah shoe brush disorder, but be that as it may undiagnosed bad things happen. And so. I was [00:23:00] the same friend Frank Robles that it was, you know, working his machine, right?
[00:23:06] It paid it would visit the other day. I was talking to him about it and three other friends that I know that used to be on his show in the same. Darn thing has happened either a complete non-issue or something. So trivial it's ridiculous. Well the way the word the worst thing about the guy is that I actually had them on my show.
[00:23:27] And and he had a Lisa on his show and then I found him we used to have the Superhuman radio Forum used to be over at at anabolic minds.com. They would they were nice enough to let us have it for free and you know, I didn't keep up with it. I wasn't active on it and have anybody was active on it. So just kind of died, but he went over there under.
[00:23:51] An assumed name and said something to the effect of that Supriya radio has lost its way like, you know, it's not [00:24:00] about strength and conditioning anymore. And you know, if you really want if you really want the real information come to my pod to come to this podcast go to this party is it and it was so obvious that it was him that I actually posted his name on it.
[00:24:14] I was said, you know good try but I mean it's like who does that at like in this day and. Paige who disparages somebody that tried to help them in order to try to steal Their audience from them. It was it was terrible and you know what had I known about that before he asked me to be on there. I would have never done that show.
[00:24:38] But anyway be that as it may I took the liberty of listening to a few recent episodes and how he said instead he still out. He's still out there. He says he's done a thousand shows and for years, but here's the kicker most of his shows today. He's relegated to talking to himself. [00:25:00] He does have certain guests on and summer.
[00:25:02] Excellent. However, he will be the first to tell you. That nobody is invested in his program and think he has a you know, a PayPal like if you want to throw him some money, he has advertising right for sponsors much like you have - any actual real sponsors and in fact, he started one show off recently and he said look, I'm not even gonna bother asking for money nobody sending any two minutes later.
[00:25:28] That's kind of sad. He's begging for a sponsor. So, you know, that was bizarre and then another. That I heard him on he was talking about. Oh, we have a technical difficulty. I think we lost coach Rob coach Rob. If you don't know this we lost you. So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go out and run a commercial.
[00:25:54] This is a good time. This is a good time to run a commercial stay tuned. We'll be right back with more of the [00:26:00] blueprint power. We lost our cameras and as you can see now I'm on the left and Coach. Rob is on the right. Anyway, we're just going to wrap up and just say that this guy really hurt himself with anything else with all of his Shenanigans.
[00:26:18] I mean, that's probably a fair thing to say, isn't it? Yeah, it's just it's a cautionary tale of you know, you don't you don't bite other people because ultimately that's going. We round to bite you and it sure didn't his case. You know, he's as much as said he squandered 80 grand for not much return very very sad before we go on I gotta I gotta talk about a sponsor I was supposed to do I actually did there there spot yesterday on the show.
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[00:27:13] You know, Eliza has always brought my underwear for me and most guys are like this right your girlfriend or your wife buys your underwear for you and guys don't take any interest in this at all. And when we even when we do take an interest in it, we buy like whatever is the cheapest we walk into the store and it's like, oh that's under where we don't want to spend.
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[00:28:23] They have all these they have all of this adaptive underwear that they could put on and change their bodies. Well a pair of underwear that make your junk look bigger. That's a plus in my account as far as I'm concerned you guys. Yes, it is. Yes Mac. Well done ordering from them is really simple.
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[00:30:44] Let's see here. That was John Bassy. So the next question comes from. Oh this one this one is actually we didn't have a name to go with this one so I don't ramas. Actually for the for the purpose of the screen, I just [00:31:00] put no name provided. It said what's your opinion now a vector by black line research.
[00:31:07] It was really hot about six months ago guys was swearing. It was like Debo light. What the hell? Why not Debo yd polite. Why would I want Debo light? I want D Bowl put the hat right if you're going to if you're going to talk nonsense go all the way. Yeah, right, if you're gonna lie tell a big lie, you know the ball heavy duty, but you know what?
[00:31:32] This is a really good question because. Um, he's correct at least six months ago, maybe a year of this product Vector debuted and in it debuted on anabolic lines, which is one of the largest then in my opinion one of the most knowledgeable Boards out there. Once you can sift through some of the obvious, you know, Schilling that's going on, but [00:32:00] Vector was not unlike a lot of proposed.
[00:32:04] Normal anabolics it contained three or four herb and Herb like ingredients and I think the at the speculated active in the one they talked up the most was either Korean mistletoe or Japanese mistletoe or something like that. Okay, you your kid right now, right Korean mistletoe. What does it give you a give you an Abaya kissing strength O My Lord, you had to read the write-up on I'll have to send you a link after the show a bottle of it.
[00:32:32] You hang it in your door and. And your doorway and then every girl that walks under it you get to kiss you would swear. It's Depot from Korea, right? Oh, man. Oh the pattern is what I want you to try to recognize here. The pattern is there's a huge product launch. There's a lot of excitement. They build on that excitement by asking for testers of free product and who doesn't want free product.
[00:32:59] So you get a [00:33:00] lot of people interested in sure enough they gave away. I don't know how many bottles of this stuff and the reports come flooding back. Most exceedingly positive. In fact, they tried to develop a narrative where this Vector was not unlike the old one ad the old one ad was a bottle was generally good for about 10 pounds.
[00:33:26] You saw about 10 pounds on the scale and drastically harder muscles. Well predictably over time there were people that been came in. What the product if the regular retail price used it and did not notice 10 extra pounds of muscle on the scale now to be fair you had people talking about. Well, you know, my sex drive is way up.
[00:33:55] My appetite is way up and that may or may not be see [00:34:00] because here's the thing. There's always this new crop of let's say 15 or 16 year old kids and. You could send them a bottle of sugar pills. The fact is if they're new to training. They're in their hormonal Prime. Let's say they just start squatting or working their legs heavy for the first time.
[00:34:22] Well, of course, they're going to explode with muscle growth and knuth prank. They said for ETC and because they're using this product they are attributing those gains to the product, right? The vast majority though of other people who bought the product in used it did not report 10 pounds of extra muscle gain.
[00:34:46] In fact, they didn't report much. So in the interest of fairness I visited the board the other day. There is not much talk about Vector right now. The one thread I did find [00:35:00] was a poster was asking the opinion of should I use vector or this other non-hormonal anabolic and sure enough the first like six replies.
[00:35:11] You know that you're kind of fizzle definitely use the other stuff, you know, you get a lot more for your money. And in fact there were you know, research proven non-hormonal anabolics. If you will in that product, nobody's saying it's D Ball, but you know being what it is. It was a much better investment at that.
[00:35:31] Company Reps for Vector came in and started trying to poke holes in people's guys that had bad results. You didn't need enough you didn't eat enough protein. You weren't training enough, you know you need to do this you need to that. So at the end of the day, I think Vector has run its course if you are looking for truly effective products, those are [00:36:00] generally I.
[00:36:00] And staff have been around for five years or more with repeat buys why it's simple people don't keep buying something. They're not getting a visible or feelable effect from right Tribulus terrestris, for example, you know people get a visible feelable effect. It might not boost testosterone like they say it does but they are getting a big increase in libido.
[00:36:26] In better and stronger erections, so they keep buying it end of the day. I would say this I would be shocked if Vector is around five years from now much more likely the company will roll out a successor of vector course, we know that's what they do to keep the excitement going. They launch a product.
[00:36:48] They develop them a crowd the crowd buys one or two of you. Bottles of this product it doesn't do anything for them. And before you know it they're launching [00:37:00] the next product and they're marketing it to the same crowd. And this is sort of this is you know, this is serious there have been so many companies like this in the supplement Sports and sports supplement industry over the past 20 30 years.
[00:37:12] It's just unbelievable. It's funny actually. You know funny and sad in the same things in the same way because if you study the posters A lot of those same people that got burned the first time we'll go back again. For more why people want a certain subsection of the population wants to believe the fairy tale that all they need to do is take this pill and they're going to be growing Heap so musk.
[00:37:41] Yeah. Yeah, and you know, those are the same people. Who when they see an athlete who has made remarkable progress in their strengths and their physique the first thing they say is drugs and that's because none of those people ever work hard enough to get any results because [00:38:00] they believe and they believe that it's a drug that's going to give them the results.
[00:38:04] Right? So absolutely we actually are going to have a question that kind of infers this here in a moment. I'm going to I just want to see.
[00:38:17] So please pay attention no, no. No. I mean there was a question that a guy asked it's actually later. Let's go to this question right here. This comes from Mark Albert and Mark says, let me get rid of that. Yeah, I'm producing a show here baby. I so Mark Albert says you mentioned on last week's show you rotate various performance supplements into your lineup.
[00:38:44] What are some of these why do you use them and how often if you're rotating them? That's a really good question. So just to recap I have a list of supplements that I take it day in and day out for General Health purposes. [00:39:00] A like a Whole Foods product to derive my vitamins and minerals the superfood if you will extra B complex for to combat homelessness teen extra vitamin C for all of the benefits that Graham not milligram.
[00:39:16] But Graham amounts give you vitamin K2 to help prevent calcification of the arteries TNG trimethylglycine for methylation in the liver and all of the benefits. That that conveys but the performance and and so in addition to that I will rotate in various performance enhancers for anywhere from two to eight weeks.
[00:39:41] So top of that list obviously is simply jin' if I'm going after a new one rep max in let's say the squat and it has a very aggressive timetable. I want to get there fast. I'm using simple chip why bounce back from workouts twice as fast? If I'm not [00:40:00] using suffragan, I'm on a longer type of program that's not as time compressed and I'm changing my diet to include more complex carbohydrates.
[00:40:12] I am using progenitor XY the and a cyclist pyrethrin there in not only increases your appetite. But improves your ability to store carbs as glucose and the muscle you'll hear about this all the time. You will see it in the all of the reviews guys are eating big and instead of putting that extra 2 inches around their waist.
[00:40:35] They're putting none or in some cases. Some guys wasted actually decrease as they gain weight. You'll you can generally expect a pound a week for anywhere from four to eight weeks, which is not. Too shabby for something that's non-hormonal. So that's for Jenna 3x. I will also use for example, like if in granules.
[00:41:00] [00:41:00] a lot of people Overlook these we know the phosphatidic acid there in has been strongly tied to mtor. So an increase in protein synthesis not to be overlooked though. It's also a very rich source of phosphatidyl serine, which is a cortisol. Roll agent if you are training with any sort of intensity, then you need to manage your cortisol because remember this that war going on in your body every day anabolic versus catabolic phosphatidyl serine is one of the things in lecithin granules that helps tilt that bad.
[00:41:41] Another that I will rotate in which is an oldie but a goodie goodie Vince gironda one of his favorites desiccated liver. Yeah, and you know for anyone that is doubting the efficacy of desiccated liver. You can [00:42:00] Google desiccated liver. Lab Rats or lab rat study. This was a study done in the 1950s where they gave one rat right the liver and the other rat didn't get the liver.
[00:42:16] They injected both with cortisone case if their level sky-high, very catabolic condition at the end of the study. There's a picture of both Rats the rat on the bottom is white. to. It's skinny is generous. It's it's sickly skinny and obviously suffering the effects of extreme catabolism. The rat on top of that though is the Wrath that got liver it is robust.
[00:42:50] It is not gray or white. It is brown and appears to be unaffected by the severe catabolic conditions that the [00:43:00] researchers imposed. So I would tell you if you have an extremely intense workout that's going to generate a lot of cortisol. And let's say that's German volume training right 10 sets to 10.
[00:43:16] That's a hell of a you know growths. It was it's a lot of work. It's a lot of work is going to show up in your cortisol levels desiccated liver would be a really good thing. What about just eating liver coach? What about just having liver three times a week? You think that's gonna matter, you know, so desiccation requires that the liver be dried.
[00:43:40] Do you have the exact same temperature as the temperature of the cow's body when alive so let's just say for lack of better. I don't know what a cow body temperatures but let's say a cow's body temperature 101 degrees. The liver is then dried allowed to give [00:44:00] off all of its moisture and turn into more of a powder.
[00:44:03] If you will at exactly 101 degrees for as long as it takes obviously in a sterile environment. You think there's some magic and desiccation or do you think we can get the same benefits just from eating liver? That's a really good question. I'm not opposed to you know to eating liver to get it. I don't know though.
[00:44:21] If you would get the same effects, you might I'll say this. It's going to be a lot tastier way to get your liver. Yeah with onions and bell little bay leaf onions, maybe little thing. Yeah states must if you're going to do desiccated liver powder, I would highly recommend doing that in tomato juice or vegetable juice of some sort it is.
[00:44:44] Really hard to get it down. If you can get one or two tablespoons down a day though during that first hour. It makes you know the remaining 23 hours of every day a lot easier to get through and that's something you will feel within [00:45:00] 12 days. They actually charted that once and if not sooner the 12-day mark, you'll feel.
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[00:45:59] So check that out. We're [00:46:00] going to take a quick commercial break. We'll be right back with more of the blueprint Power Hour where we answer your questions as best as we can stay tuned. Welcome back to the blueprint Power Hour. So the next question comes from I'm thinking this is probably an alias, but maybe it's not and if it's not, I'm sorry, it's Sinbad solemn a I'm assuming that the last name is pronounced.
[00:46:22] Salome he said yeah. He says I've heard you talk about HRT and I'm ready to take the plunge. I can get 200 milligrams a week and possibly even up to 300 milligrams a week. Everyone uses test as their Baseline steroid. So I know it'll work like King Kong one thing. I don't want. Though is a physique.
[00:46:45] I'm sorry that looks that looks heavily drugged. You're not going to have that. Can I stop getting too fast gaining too fast just by lowering the dose or if need to [00:47:00] stop taking it all dude. You you're worried about shit. That's knocking. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to curse you hearing about stuff that just not gonna happen man.
[00:47:07] Not another 200 milligrams a week. Yeah, I mean that that basically sums up my answer. But let me give you a real world example. I know a guy he's 45 years old and his I think when he was tested he had it was either 123 or a hundred thirty two nanograms per deciliter. And that was on a scale that was given to him of to 50 to 800.
[00:47:34] Okay. So clearly, you know, he's he qualifies for. Artie he is originally prescribed 200 milligrams a week and this is the first drug period he's ever used and of course he's heard about, you know, all of the wonders of testosterone and how much muscle geils guys pylon, etc. Etc. So he starts [00:48:00] shooting 200 milligrams a week a hundred milligrams twice a week to keep blood.
[00:48:07] Concept and so much to his dismay after four weeks. He calls me up and he said I said, how's the test going? He says not much has happened. And then I said, well, you know call me back after eight. He calls me back after eight and he's like still not much and so of course we went over. What we should have went over in the first place which were the fundamentals.
[00:48:36] Are you training progressively check he was are you eating enough? Yes, he was what are you eating enough protein check he was are you sleeping enough for you getting enough rest? Yes what we're talking about here is expectations. 200 milligrams a week of test as he found out is not going to [00:49:00] result in an explosion of muscles.
[00:49:03] He went up he actually. He graduated from 2 to 3 to 4 to 600 milligrams. So let me give you some of this feedback on each. When he got to 300 milligrams, he called me up and he said I can't tell any difference from two to three hundred I said, okay. Well, you know 300 is the lowest research proven dose that accelerates protein synthesis should put your total test anywhere in the neighborhood of 1,200.
[00:49:35] 1400 somewhere around there. I honestly don't know because I don't think he went back and got tested again and then he jumped at the 400 now 400. He said I feel great and I said well that's good. You look through, you know, very subjective word. What do you mean? He said my mood is just a lot brighter, you know, it's the glass is [00:50:00] half full.
[00:50:00] He he just loved life. And and and that's he that's the exact opposite right of what the media will lead you to believe which is oh my God, he's going to be a Roid Rage monster, you know, he's going to he's going to murder people and decapitate need them know, you know, in fact when he jumped it to 600 milligrams.
[00:50:24] He felt even better now, I will tell you this at the 600. Damn week Mark. He said I said well talk to me about how you're doing in the gym. He said well, the biggest thing is I feel like I can do more. He said I don't just don't want to leave the gym once I get there is a feel like I can train every day.
[00:50:45] So clearly he's getting some of the recovery benefits but still, you know, he's not looking looking like Hercules and liat and that was right his goal. In fact, he thought testosterone was so powerful. [00:51:00] That he would he would have to dial it back at some point. Look you still have to train hard. You still have to pack away the groceries.
[00:51:10] You still need to sleep big testosterone is no Miracle. Okay. Now it's one of the things I'll know at 600 milligrams a week that seemed to be the threshold where. His LDL or bad cholesterol really started to increase didn't see that at I think he said he had Labs run at 300 didn't see that, you know didn't see a bad impact on cholesterol.
[00:51:39] He skipped over 500 so we won't know but clearly once he got to 600 some of the some of the negative side effects kicked in now having said that, you know, your LDL numbers getting nudged out of range. Little bit. It is not exactly a life-threatening side effect. I mean number one. You're [00:52:00] not going to be doing this or hopefully any length of time Beyond 12 to 16 weeks if you're cycling if you're on HRT, that's a different matter, but also.
[00:52:12] It's reversible right you come off. Your LDL is go back. You can also improve your HDL to LDL cholesterol by using a Fed room provided. You have no pre-existing issues little known fact ephedrine will jump your HDL numbers and that. Even with LDL numbers that are a little too high give you gives you a much improved ratio if you're because it because ATL actually helps to clear LDL out of the bloodstream.
[00:52:43] So yeah, right exactly and here too. We get into over-the-counter supplements for a drug-using athletes. A lot of them are under the impression. I don't need to use up the supplements and these drugs work. Awesome. Why would I need. [00:53:00] Well, you know taking something like vitamin vitamin K2 as a hedge against you know calcification of the arteries taking something like trimethylglycine which is going to bring down home assisting if you're eating, you know, tons of protein and tables guys get around drugs usually do taking 1 to 2 milligrams of cocky chelated copper because right copper keeps the heart from developing cardiomyopathy from from blood pressure issues.
[00:53:29] Right, you know there's a lot of things that drug-using athletes should be using that they're not. Yeah, that's a great point. I didn't know that about copper. So I learned to write every week anyway, long story short. This gentleman found out what most of you will if you've never used testosterone and embark on a testosterone only.
[00:53:53] You're not going to wake up looking like mr. Olympia. All right. I know I want them to say what somebody goes. Oh, you know, I'm going to start [00:54:00] testosterone therapy. I'm afraid I'm going to get too muscular and too big and too Jack than I just want to go home. You're cute. That's cute. Thank you.
[00:54:10] Nah, it ain't gonna happen. Trust me. Look I was doing two grams of test the grandma Deca and 40 milligrams of trend and a week for almost a year. Okay, and I got jacked, but that's what he did. You're not going to get jacked on 300 milligrams a week. Trust me on this one. You'll know you'll probably you will have if you're in your 50s and 60s, you'll develop muscle a lot easier like a guy in his 20s and 30s for sure.
[00:54:33] Right but you're not you're not going to go people are going to go to you dude. Are you want anabolic steroids? No not going to do that. Yeah, so that's a that's just a long way of saying. Test is no Miracle. Obviously, it does help temper your expectations. Yeah and work hard eat big sleep. Well, and those things may actually give you benefits that the test doesn't even [00:55:00] bring you so hold on.
[00:55:00] Let me go. I'm sorry. I'm trying every time somebody text me it rips. My my phone puts everything back to where it was and I got to find the next question. Here it is. Okay. Let's go to the next question comes from Jim harpy. Who's the biggest guy in your gym and have you asked him what and how much he takes?
[00:55:21] I guess he means drugs. I'm curious to know what these monsters take to get so big this is kind of in line with the previous question quite frankly. Yeah, it is because you know the again it's another misconception. Yeah, I mean the association goes immediately to the driver of the biggest survey must be taken, you know, the most of the stuff that works the fact of the matter is there are two that stand out in my gym ones about the say 6.
[00:55:52] Almost 300 pounds the other guys six five, I'll close to 300 pounds with a 34 inch waist. [00:56:00] So obviously two very big, you know guys the way I broached the discussion with them nothing to do with drugs at first, you know, the in fact my first question was how many calories a day do you eat? And he you know, both of those guys knew to the calorie not.
[00:56:22] How many calories a day they consume but of course how many grams of protein how many grams of carbs and even the fats so clearly those guys were not counting on drugs to build muscle out of thin air because they can't you need the cement in the cement is the calories. Secondly their training is more.
[00:56:46] I would say traditional bodybuilding training they do not. Write things down. They don't subscribe to any particular program. Both of them are although one of them the taller one. [00:57:00] You'll find this interesting. He squats every day every single day heavy every day or just squats every day. It appears to be pretty heavy to me.
[00:57:13] You know, Brandon Lily was like that. I don't know if you remember Brandon Lily. He was the power lifter who was making amazing like world-changing gainsbourg in competitions. And then he both of his knees gave out one day while he's squatting. He used to squat everyday to yeah, and of course my mind immediately went to rhabdo but.
[00:57:39] So that's the story on the training front. They both freely admit that they don't get enough rest five, maybe six hours a night. One of them is a prison guard and he works on shifts. That's a harder job. That's a high-stress job by the way. Got to give a shout out to somebody. I just showed see showed up and the audience constant Tory Davison con man.
[00:57:59] You've been missing [00:58:00] in action. We love you. Where you been brother? Yeah. Killer Kahn. Yeah, man. I just saw you just joined the group. I was like damn Khan is here. Okay, that's a good thing. so. So what does this tell us? Eventually, they talked about the drugs that they were taken. Hmm. And one of the two dozen fact use quite a bit the others is I would say consistent for a guy his size.
[00:58:27] But here's the thing. For whatever reason guys and my gym talk openly about their drug use I can point to a dozen other guys that take just as much stuff. If not more. I have no Gaines. No Gaines. I am in like one of them one of these guys. The big guy says to me you see someone's over there. I said, yep.
[00:58:52] He says he's taking almost 2 grams of test of week and has been for like 20 weeks. And [00:59:00] then he says for what the guy was about 2 to 15 to 20 at the most and you know, you're not talking about a strong guy a lot of it appeared to me anyway to be water. So the moral of the story there is, you know more is not better tape.
[00:59:18] Yeah. I mean you can you can take tons. Tons of stuff but if you're eating maintenance calories are below guess what you're wasting your money and see the end. I'm telling you something from experience. The hard part is eating, you know, you can you can inject 3 cc's of oil a day. No. Get up in the morning take a shower.
[00:59:39] Give yourself your injection go but hitting that every to our 40 to 50 grams of protein and broccoli six to seven times a day. You may even get it done one day the next day. It's like damn the third day you like. Oh my God, like it's you know, and that's the difference. That's the Magic The Magic in [01:00:00] these guys who grow look, They give cows Fina Plex which is which is Trend ballon and estradiol benzoate.
[01:00:10] They give them those two steroids to make them grow faster, but they would not grow if they didn't give them free access to eating corn and grain all day long. Those cows have you took those cows and gave them the fina and and the the estradiol benzoate but you didn't feed them. They wouldn't put on a pound.
[01:00:31] And this is where this is where everybody misses the boat. It's right the drugs only work. If you are hitting your meals every two hours then they don't otherwise they don't work. Yeah, I was I was gonna say, you know the training I got an inconsistent answer obviously, they're not sleeping as well as they could so what's the common denominator packing away the groceries?
[01:00:54] That's it. That's it. When you when you look at a bodybuilder, what you need to see is the [01:01:00] same thing a farmer who raises cattle sees bodybuilders by and large are pretty much the same different species, but the same as cows that they want to muscle them up so that they can process them and sell them at a bigger weight and at that's all about eating all about eating, you know, no, but there's no question about it.
[01:01:21] And so you know the next time you see. Some gargantuan lie, you know well-built guy. Don't let your mind go first a humble. You know, what's he taking? Right, you know instead the real answer is you know, how many calories is this guy socking away? Okay and and day in and day out. That's the caloric cement that's needed regardless of whether you're on lots of drugs or no drugs at all.
[01:01:50] Did you see the article about Eddie Hall when he did that? Record-breaking what was what was his deadlift 1200 pounds? Yeah something insane. So [01:02:00] Eddie Hall has trimmed down. I mean, he's lost a lot of weight for his health for his health. He did it because he openly talked and if you haven't found this article Google it Google Eddie Hall and and probably the word diet and you'll find this article Eddie Hall was eating something like 12,000 to.
[01:02:23] 10,000 calories a day. He said his life revolved around eating training and pooping and that was it he talked about and he took graphically like like okay you want to be the strongest guy in the world you can do it. But here's what you're in store for bleeding hemorrhoids. You know bowel movement problems spending literally when you add up the time hours a day in the bathroom crapping because you've been eating 15,000 calories not just one day a week every day 7 days a week for [01:03:00] years for years.
[01:03:02] And anytime you look at somebody go man. I wonder what drugs he's on your right Rob. You're exactly right. Stop that thought and say to yourself man. I wonder how disciplined. Sky is about eating, you know, 350 grams of protein a day seven meals a day. I mean and you got to hit it on time because you can't be eating when you're sleeping.
[01:03:22] So you got to hit you can't miss a meal. You can't miss a meal can't miss a meal look at as the calories go up. So does the Charmin? Yeah. Keep that in mind. Yeah. So this is the Char made my beautiful wife's just came in. Oh Jenny, how you doing? Jenn coming up to the camera alone again. Let's see.
[01:03:40] Somebody pretty got his mug. Get his mug out of there. Hi Jen. How are you? She's a lot prettier picture. Yeah, let's work. Can we just cooked so hard. Can you talk and just have her on camera? Instead we have hug her face and your voice. Could we do that? No, you know what? That's a really good [01:04:00] point if she's here.
[01:04:00] We'll do a couple do a cobra. Okay you go. We're going to take our last thank you to Jeff. We're going to take our last commercial break when we come back. We got the blueprint tip of the day. And it's a really good one. It's one right. I mean, I love this discussion. We're going to have now it's about Kettle you're going to love it stay tuned.
[01:04:18] We'll be right back with more of the blueprint power our look at the music going here and we take out to break. So Rob, we're going to talk about the blueprint tip of the day now. Yep. Yep, and. And the tip of the day. is the ketogenic diet and I think it's it's a pertinent subject due to once again the explosion in its popularity.
[01:04:47] So the other day my wife came home from Walmart, and in addition to Quito Friendly Foods, you know here and there were eating items that. [01:05:00] That made compliance easier so slim fast as he's kilo bars now, that's sheets. Yeah. I see. I see the commercial they now say keto friendly Kido friend, right and Kido fat bombs.
[01:05:14] And in fact, they have a little option up here. It says text Keto Plan to four four two two two so clearly. Companies and that just Slimfast are investing heavily in the low carb diet. Here's another keto chips. Low carb bread and in fact candies are now available. So. Long story short, it's a way of saying that the ketogenic diet is once again in Vogue.
[01:05:48] I say once again because if you've been around this game for any length of time literally since Vince girondist gym in the 1950s, the ketogenic [01:06:00] diet has been used initially by athletes. But then gained a very favorable traction with the American public primarily in I think it was 1972. Dr. Atkins, you know new diet Revolution introduced the masses to low-carb Eden.
[01:06:22] And once again, if you're visiting stores today food items, for example that I just showed you are much more keto friendly we. He did not have any of these, you know chips and fat bombs and other things to be in compliance many years ago when the ketogenic diet was once again fashionable. more part more important I think for athletes is the question is the ketogenic diet optimal and I'm here to tell you that if you are a strength athlete or even if you're not if you're interested in [01:07:00] optimal changes in body composition.
[01:07:03] I would tell you that the straight ketogenic diet is not the diet that you want to be on for all of its merits and there are many ketogenic diets are hell on strength when they're done for any length of time. So a couple of points. Ketogenic diets work primarily because when you drop carbohydrates remember the suffix is hydrate, not only do the carbs go but when they do almost 3 grams of water go with it.
[01:07:39] Now this principle also works in Reverse right? When somebody comes off a ketogenic diet, they will many times gain all of the weight and. And some back and it comes back fast for the same reason right now 3 grams of water almost 3 grams are being pulled in with it. The [01:08:00] key thing to remember is this as a strength athlete.
[01:08:04] Muscle is primarily Water by some estimates up to 72 percent. You you will lose in some cases dramatic levels of strength on certain exercises. And so the question becomes as an athlete if a ketogenic diet is not optimal. What is well a couple of thoughts. First off even jaronda realized when he was advocating his low carb diet to athletes that a carb refeed at some point was necessary a couple of his favorites were one high carb meal every fourth day.
[01:08:44] Or a two-day carb up once every two weeks. I think was what he said you can do and in fact a street ketogenic diet has some other pitfalls such as reduced thyroid function, [01:09:00] right? We know from studies refeeding of carbohydrates is going to upregulate that the best diet for strength athletes in my opinion if you're going to use Quito.
[01:09:12] Something along the lines of dr. Mauro di Pasquale. He's anabolic diet, right which it which is basically aphasic ketogenic diet might say or write its otherwise referred to as a phase shift diet, right and Dan Duchesne. Can it be something very similar called the body oppa story that was a little more Savvy in so far as timing your carbs and what types in various glucose disposal agents that you could.
[01:09:42] But the key point being here is this at some point you will refeed carbohydrates whether that's as part of a plan or because no matter what I take away from you you're going to eventually. By [01:10:00] strand you on the low-fat Island. You're eventually going to want to come off and eat fats. If I strand you on the low-carb Island, you're eventually going to come off and want carbohydrates.
[01:10:10] So given that Dynamic and it's really, you know, it's not if but when. Let's do it the smart way and incorporate a feeding window of anywhere from six to forty eight hours refeeding carbohydrates now a couple of other things in recent years. The Advent of ketogenic salts has been introduced, you know promising instant ketosis, you know, you know what I saw yesterday on Facebook.
[01:10:43] What's a keto topical cream cheese and it was made with coconut oil and it was that it was called Quito Salve or key to something. It was just it was just bizarre. It's like, okay now it's getting [01:11:00] stupid now, right and that's what. My right the whole world's gone keto crazy. I've got a crazy. So at the end of the day, I would tell you this.
[01:11:11] a street ketogenic diet. is probably doable for non-athletes and I'm thinking when I say non-athletes, I mean even people that don't even work out. They just they've never worked out. They don't want to work out. I'm going through this now with my parents, you know, 70 years old. They've never exercised.
[01:11:31] How do I breathe? Those habits. Yeah that's hard, but they will make dietary adjustments. And so with straight ketogenic diet for them with the cheat day. Perhaps once a week is probably the right answer if you're a strength athlete not so much cycling ketogenic diet and you will after you've done of you after you've gone through it week after week after week.
[01:12:00] [01:12:00] You'll begin to understand how many carbohydrates you can eat for how long and what type of carbohydrates? So that would be the my much preferred option. I use keto I'm on the anabolic diet and it works exceedingly. Well for me the other option you might want to try is not straight ketogenic, but about a hundred grams a day of carbs hundred grams a day seems.
[01:12:29] The enough so that people don't go out of their mind craving carbohydrates. It is enough to keep thyroid function humming along but it is also enough to register some fat loss gangs. You see Peter Krause asked the question about the products you found in the soup, but do they contain a lot of chemicals if you look at the list on the Jenny Craig stuff?
[01:12:53] Yeah, and it take they taste like chemicals although some of the more recent products. We've tried [01:13:00] have been a little better in The Taste department. So, you know, what are the practical uses for these products? Well, you know on the anabolic diet most people won't truly reach ketosis until about Wednesday.
[01:13:16] So I suppose you could use ketogenic salts Monday morning and get back into ketosis giving yourself your new you're not really in ketosis at that point. You know, you're an actual you're in a something called Keitel Isis ketosis implies that your body is making ketones Keitel Isis implies that your body is using ketones as a fuel source.
[01:13:39] These are two very separate situations. So. If your body is using ketones that's Q2 lysis. If those ketones are coming from salts, then you're bypassing the fat burning process to make the ketones which is the whole purpose of the keto diet. So, you know and and know everybody likes to [01:14:00] say. Take these take these keto salts in your in ketosis in five minutes.
[01:14:04] You're not in ketosis ketosis implies. Your body is making ketones. Your body is not making if you're drinking them. Yeah, and that's a really good point. It also brings up the issue of urinary testing strips for ketones. Some people that are eating very low calories will see no ketones on the stick and get you know, they're there.
[01:14:30] Brother mine, right? Oh my God, this is not working. No, the reality is your body is using all available ketones for energy. It's when you start eating at maintenance or even a little above you will see ketones being excreted the nice part about ketones. The beauty about ketones. Is this your body can only do one of two things for them use them for energy or excrete them.
[01:14:55] They come out in your urine well, and this is why I think that the. [01:15:00] Tone breath meters are better choice because when you exhale the byproducts of ketones, which I believe are acetates, you know, those ketones have been used for energy when you urinate them out. They have been used for energy. They they were they were waste products and if it's in your blood stream, it doesn't mean your body is running on it just means that President your bloodstream.
[01:15:23] It's only when you exhale the byproduct of ketones that you can say, oh my. He's using ketones as energy, right and and so understand the ketogenic raised for what it is. You don't want to buy in a hundred percent that this is the way to eat and the only way to eat for the rest of your life.
[01:15:45] Ketogenic diets are a tool just like any other tool in your toolbox. You wouldn't shoot your best round of golf with just one Club. You need all of them, right? And that's. Eugenics [01:16:00] are they are a club in your bag to shoot your best route and make and make no mistake. Ketogenic diet is as restrictive as the vegan diet and you will end up with nutrient deficiencies unless you supplement and so, you know, and and and I rail against the vegan diet I say, you know do it for a couple weeks dude for a couple months, but you can't do it forever or you'll end up with nutrient deficiencies and.
[01:16:29] Tim is true of the ketogenic diet. You can't do it forever. And there's a lot of people on the keto diet that are on it for fat loss that of fat and like and like and like the the glaring. absurdity. That there are people on the ketogenic diet that have been on the ketogenic diet for years and they're fat.
[01:16:52] That's like wait a minute. I thought you went on this diet to lose weight. Well, you know, I'm healthy, but I'm from no no, no, [01:17:00] don't give me that don't give me no. No. No the ketogenic diet is very restrictive do it for a while sure. I believe that. A modified paleo diet where you're eating High Protein healthy fats in a in a reasonable amount and getting your carbohydrates from certain vegetable sources that seem not to be as harmful with lectins and and anti-nutrients and stuff like that.
[01:17:33] I think that's probably the sound this way and and and use your. Archie carbs early in the day time that you're going to have oatmeal and stuff like that. And and in the eve as you get close to the evening just you know, broccoli green beans and stuff like that. Yeah, you know the that's not unlike intermittent fasting, you know, if you're just kind of grazing on vegetables during the day.
[01:17:57] And then you're you know, you have a workout and [01:18:00] then your main meal at night. Well, you know that's intermittent fasting and so mixing that in with something like a modified paleo diet can improve the punch even more even more and that works the other way around to after you've been intermittent fasting for let's say five days.
[01:18:20] And then you start refeeding carbohydrates every 2 to 3 hours will guess what? You know, that that's going to be a huge punch to Performance if you're lifting weights in the gym important point though if instead your. Bodyweight exercise that extra five or ten pounds you put on over the weekend.
[01:18:42] It's going to work against you. So do the rap sheet arouse called it the Paleo Zone Diet. I like that. Yeah. Yeah, I like that. I guess that's about it for today, huh? That's it, but it's important tip because you know kito's out there screaming for your dollars. So just [01:19:00] understand it's not it's another fad.
[01:19:02] It's just you know, what, you know, it just did the feds just keep on coming and the people the hungry crowd looking for the answer. The answer is students do something consistently long enough to see results. That's the real answer. That's the really go. There you go. Alright, that's it for today.
[01:19:18] Thanks coach and we'll see her by the more we got Aaron singer me. Going on tomorrow. We're going to have a really heartfelt discussion with him about being a dad. Oh, wow. We're also going to be talking about we have Brent Lalonde coming on talking about the Arnold. I will be at the Arnold this year.
[01:19:34] I will terrific Eliza will not because she can't get away, but I'll be driving up on Thursday. I'll be there Friday Saturday and going home Sunday terrific. So for those of you being yeah, I'm looking forward to it. So I so we got I'm sorry. Make sure you load up on free samples. Oh, yeah. And a protein farts protein farts all over the place.
[01:19:56] Lots of protein farts at the Arnold. Everybody's eating way too much protein [01:20:00] walking around fart and Khalid hum Louis last comment totally agree keto is helpful for a period of time. But as a lifestyle diet, it is a bad decision. So there you go. We have our Algerian connection weighing in on this discussion as well.
[01:20:15] We'll see about tomorrow with more superhuman radio and thank you for listening today and watching and watching.
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