Rob Regish
Listener questions are answered about training, nutrition, supplementation and more.
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[00:00:00] Hey, hey, welcome back to another episode of superhuman radio. We have a fantastic show plan today all thanks to coach Rob reddish who does a lot of the work answering your questions. How to clear my throat and it's going to be a good show so and this is Facebook live. So those of you who are watching Facebook live you can actually post comments and questions and so on and you may even see your name up in lights here at [00:01:00] superhuman radio network during the show.
[00:01:01] So check that out. I'm wearing my drab green as you notice this winter I have been in. Military clothing a lot and it's two reasons. Number one. I have been in a funk and number two. I love our military. I really am big Patriot. So there you go. I get this stuff from guys on the show. This is rare in Sangamon shirt.
[00:01:22] Redcon one. I love this shirt. Dr. John Parker sent me this hat when he was deployed. And I forget I think was Kuwait last time and I love the military people who listen to our show. I just want you to know that and I appreciate everything that you do without further Ado. Let's get a little military song playing.
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[00:01:56] How you doing, Rob? Rob can you hear me? [00:02:00] I can't hear you. Hold on. Maybe it's me. No, it's not me. Oh man work fine a couple seconds ago. Did you do anything on your end Rob did you? Hit a mute button by any chance. Hold on. Let me see some stay tuned.
[00:02:40] Well, this sucks in a big way. I can't hear you and it's not on my end and we just did this a second ago. Why don't we why don't you disconnect and reconnect real quick, and I'll kind of just sit here and talk a little bit. We'll have Coke drawback on in just a second these things happen. We did it.
[00:02:57] We did a pre-show mic check and [00:03:00] Camera check and got everything all set up and he's been connected ever since so it can't be that I don't understand what happened. But I'm hoping that by him logging back in will somehow fix it. So we'll see here in a second. Anyway, yes. I've been wearing my drab green it goes with the whether it's been so freaking cold here in Louisville, Kentucky.
[00:03:23] It actually has been very depressing. I want to get to the beach as soon as possible. Hi were adding Rob back to the Rob. Can you hear me? But I can't hear you. Okay. So here's we're going to do we're going to have to not do Facebook live today unless we can figure out what the hell's going on with.
[00:03:44] Rob's audio and we're probably gonna have to just go. Yeah, somebody says love the live show and I want to give you a live show today, but for some reason I can't hear kotra you sure there's nothing you touched on your computer nothing.
[00:04:00] [00:04:01] Yeah, I wish I could hear you. This this this is is so frustrating right now. So frustrating. I don't know what to say. I guess we have to end the show and just go by phone. I'll call you right back on the telephone. Sorry folks we tried today. Hi, so we're just going to do the show by phone today and it'll only those who listen via audio will have the opportunity to listen to Today show.
[00:04:31] I don't know it was working fine and I didn't touch anything and you didn't touch anything so I don't know what to make of it, but it is what it meant. What hold on, okay. What happened? I'm just trying to get my setup here. All right, go ahead. Okay. So the first question comes from Eric Gonzalez.
[00:04:55] He says you mentioned last week some someone withdrawing $80,000 from their [00:05:00] 401K. I'm considering starting my own personal training business and was wondering if the cash from my oh four. Oh one k-- would fund it. Is that a good idea, you know, although starting a business is an admirable goal and I would tell you to go for it funding.
[00:05:15] With your 401 k is not the best idea. So first off let's discuss the personal training thing. It is a tremendously rewarding field to be able to make a difference. In other people's lives, right? The problem with the business is I see it as follows first, you need to realize that the number of people that are truly serious in my opinion and will stick with you week in week out month in month out.
[00:05:42] It's small. It's a very small number you're going to find a lot of these people signing up for a session or three and all of a sudden they disappear, you know, almost none of them stick around after the first few weeks and it's not necessarily that I'm working them to death, right? That's the worst thing you can do to [00:06:00] discourage someone but it's hard work.
[00:06:03] And and people are not big fans of hard work generally speaking next the gym where you train at, you know where you train people is going to take their cut and in most cases they're going to take at least 20 percent, you know, you can charge more maybe in some bigger markets or if you have you know, higher-profile clientele, but that means you know, if you're making a hundred bucks a day training people.
[00:06:29] You're only bringing home a tea and that's before taxes are taken into consideration. So, you know the larger and bigger the gym in my experience the more they take so those are the two Biggie's I would tell you that as a sole business personal training is probably not going to give you the kind of income you're looking for as an adjunct to other things.
[00:06:55] Absolutely. If I had to do it over again, I would require prepayment [00:07:00] for a minimum of two months from these people up front. But even there more people will balk at that than didn't what, you know Porter Cottrell trains people here in Louisville, and and he charges a considerable amount of money and he makes people pay for the whole six months up front six months and I'm talking about to train with Porter.
[00:07:21] You got to Shell out a few thousand dollars upfront. And you know what? He's got. He has no room to take on new training clients. Right? Right. And so it can be done. You have to bring some real quality some real credentials some quality. I mean Porter's a former Olympia stage but ifbb Pro bodybuilder.
[00:07:47] Right and he's he's my age now. I think he may be a little bit younger than me. I'm not sure but he looks amazing. He look he still kept a lot of his muscle. He's still super lean, you know, you can do it. [00:08:00] You can absolutely dictate to somebody you gotta pay me three months and you know what you do a lot of people go.
[00:08:04] Yeah, but you're going to lose so much money. No because those people who will waste 80% of your time. They waste it. They that time could go to other people who are sincere about their results. That's a very good point very good point. So, you know, those are the pluses and minuses take that for what it's worth.
[00:08:24] Now when it comes to withdrawing money from your 401k to fund this or any other Venture. It is almost always a bad really bad idea. In fact, it's about the worst mistake that you can make with money except for maybe going into. Right a lot of credit card debt, and the reason is simple it's called the future value of money.
[00:08:47] So the gentleman that I spoke about last week who shall remain nameless by his own account with Drew 80 gram from his 401k with not much to show for it and he's going to really [00:09:00] regret it when he hears this. In 20 years if he had not added another Penny to that 80 gram and kept it in his 401k. And he got the average stock market return it would be worth over half a million dollars.
[00:09:17] If he waited just 10 more years it would have been worth almost 1.5 million. And again, that's without adding one additional sent it has to do with compound interest. Okay compound interest is the great equalizer. Especially for people that are looking to turn a little money into a lot and we're not talking about what looking to be super rich here, right?
[00:09:42] You just want to be comfortable so that you have options for things like going to the gym instead of working 80 hours a week for the rest of your life. It allows small amounts saved over time to mushroom into truly huge amounts, right as you can see from the example that [00:10:00] I just gave you the key is.
[00:10:02] Saving small amounts over time and leaving the money alone. Put it in the total stock market index fund congratulations you now own the entire stock market tens of thousands of stocks literally in your broadly Diversified. The problem is this people try to get fancy. What do I mean by that? They start buying individual stocks?
[00:10:27] Because the hear about how overnight millionaires were made, you know. For people who bought Bitcoin well for every person that makes money and individual stocks. I can show you a hundred who lost money and some people lose everything bear in mind these investment professionals that work at the major firms.
[00:10:49] They have teams of people and reams of data in computer technology. They can't beat the market. That means if the stock market was up last year 10%. [00:11:00] YouTube only need to make 10% Don't try to keep beating the market or you will lose money. It's a sad thing. I would stay away from an individual stock finally understand this.
[00:11:12] I'm not saying that I want you to not pursue entrepreneurship in any form or fashion. I'm not saying, you know, you can't go on vacation or buy some nice clothes or what have you I am saying you need to save money for your future. And maybe build a little emergency fund. You don't believe your car breaks down needs a thousand dollars in repairs your emergency fund will cover.
[00:11:36] If you don't have that money, you're going to dip into credit card debt and their compound interest starts working against you usually fourteen percent or more right on some of these credit cards look long story short. I want you to. In some form or fashion be an entrepreneur. I also want you to have a good nice future [00:12:00] and retirement.
[00:12:01] I don't want you to spend your golden years and welcome to Walmart, you know or Worse leave the 401K money alone find another way small business loans, you know, there are other ways of funding, you know a business. So to speak your future is too important to squander. The way that this gentleman in question did personal trainers.
[00:12:27] I'll tell you this the most satisfaction I've ever had was that woman. I trained with a severe chronic degenerative condition. I callosum Spondylitis. She looked at me with near tears in her eyes when she did walks with 70 pounds yesterday. Why because the doctors told her to go home. There was nothing she could do.
[00:12:49] So those are the pros and cons just don't fund it with your retirement. You know what I read an article about three months ago and it's stuck in the back of my head and I can't get it out of my head and it and it was an [00:13:00] article showing that if you only made $40,000 a year for your entire working life, you will have invested about 225 thousand dollars into Social Security.
[00:13:16] Yep, and and and most people live about 16 to 18 years after retirement and most people get you know, 1500 2000 3000 dollars at that level of income, you know, 52 maybe 2,000 a month and. When you look at that two thousand a month over the course of the 50 16 or 18 years you realize two things that had that $225,000 over time and the actually wasn't a lump sum at the beginning of your career.
[00:13:44] But how you made that same investment? I'd same investment month in and month out into a more Progressive less risky Financial vehicle. Yep, that you would [00:14:00] have ended up at the end of your working career with not $2,000 a month, but somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.6 million dollars accumulated at a very very low interest rate.
[00:14:13] Very very reasonable instruction. You know, you know this whole social security safety net thing. We're getting robbed just in time. Just want to put that out there. I just want we getting robbed if you were allowed to invest that money or if the government invested that money the way. And they'll say oh well, we can't put this in anything risky.
[00:14:34] Well hell, where are you putting it in your mattress. I mean it's not growing. It's not in fact, people are paying a quarter of a million dollars into it and they're only pulling out maybe 50,000 60,000 before they die. So if anything. Social Security shouldn't be near bankrupt. It should be wealthy as hell because people died before they could get their money back out of it.
[00:14:56] Yeah, and the scary part is if you look at the bottom of your social security [00:15:00] statement. It says in big bold letters don't count on this does it really doesn't say that does it seriously? Oh, yeah. It's a don't count on this but you know Social Security is left unchanged will be bankrupt in seven years, but I'm and the American people should be up in arms because basically if I if I took that same money to Charles Schwab or I don't know some investing firm, you know some Merrill Lynch or something like that.
[00:15:29] And and at the end of The Journey they said, you know, we really messed up. We lost all your money. We didn't even tell you what we were investing it in and it turns out that that quarter of a million you've given us over the past 40 years, you know, we just we don't have any money out of they will you could bring them up against the FTC is go what did these people do they rub our money what and but we can't go to the government and go.
[00:15:51] Oh my God, you robbed all of our money you're giving us nothing back and on top of that you're telling me you're broke. Yeah, people would be in jail [00:16:00] or should be you know, this is why I said this just this morning. I was reading an article and I shook my head and I thought my God the American population is both ignorant and applies no critical thinking to anything at all.
[00:16:12] And that is why this country is where it is today. It's not because there's corrupt politicians. It's because corrupt politicians can exist where people are drones and don't pay attention to anything. Amen crying out loud, okay. This wasn't supposed to be that kind of show but turned out so Jim Anderson says, I understand you're a real big fan of the 20 rep reading squats in your opinion.
[00:16:36] Is there anything that can really hold a candle to them? I mean in the terms of adding lean muscle to Growing to a growing frame and also strength, let's not forget the strength acquisition from this program, right? So for the uninitiated what Jim's talking about is the. 20 rep breathing squats and pullovers program which also recommended a [00:17:00] lot of heavy eating that goes along with a gallon of milk a day.
[00:17:04] And and may I please say that those of you who are listening to this who don't take the time to actually buy the book that teaches about it or find the information don't set out to do this with anything near 50% of your normal max weight because I'm telling you if you're doing this, right? If you're using 50% of your max weight you are going to fall on the floor like Ed corny and pumping iron at the end, right?
[00:17:26] You should see the face of God somewhere. Yeah, but here's the thing. It's been around since the 1920s right and as reliably. Plenty of muscle to any willing participant I would I would tell you that. It's probably packed more muscle on young men than any other quote-unquote routine since then and the reason it works are several.
[00:17:48] Okay first. It forces the trainee to focus on big basic exercises, especially the squat you got the 20 reps squats. You got the pullovers and a couple push-pull movements [00:18:00] and and you're done. It looks deceptively simple, but it also requires damn hard work that you just don't see and Jim's today and further that that work be Progressive again something else.
[00:18:13] You don't see. Third it important. Excuse me. It stresses the importance of rest. Reading throughout the book and I'm talking about super squats by Randall Jay Strasse. He is adamant in hammering the point home that you grow when you rest when you sleep on off days Etc. It is not the notes that makes the music.
[00:18:38] It's the spaces in between and then finally it recommends little to nothing. In the way of supplements, which means this the trainee is not going to be majoring in the minors like they are right now obsessing over how many grams of creatine to take how much alpha lipoic acid in grape juice? [00:19:00] So that's that incredibly productive routine.
[00:19:03] Now the question becomes. is there another way to put on as much mass or more in a short period of time if there is. I haven't encountered it the possibility exists though that using a different movement one that engages more total muscle mass and the same heavy labored breathing. I'm talking about the trap bar deadlift now if you were to substitute the trap bar deadlift for the squat.
[00:19:33] It's. You would generate more lean body mass in with a would accrue that over the course of the program. Of course, there aren't really any studies looking at that all we can go by right is our critical thinking so trap our work demands what very heavy leg involvement. Although likely more quadricep versus your hamstrings and glutes depending on the squat stance.
[00:19:58] It also works more total [00:20:00] muscle mass is specially. The upper and mid back right versus The Squat and of course, you're likely to grow bigger traps. Those are the upsides as I see them on the downside the deadlift takes quite a bit more out of the central nervous system versus the squat. So you might not be able to train as frequently also your grip.
[00:20:23] It will likely also be the limiting factor. Okay, because the grip. Being much smaller muscle groups than the back in the legs will fatigue much faster. Personally. I would tell you the chalk up and do the absolute best you can if you find your grip is slipping and that's what's limiting You by all means you can go ahead and use wrist wraps, but I'll tell you between the captain's the crush grippers that I've been using.
[00:20:50] And just jock I've been doing pretty darn good. So here's the bottom line the 20 reps drop Squad program rather still [00:21:00] can't be beat for adding slabs of muscle on a young frame or even an old one right as the case may be if you are game though. I would keep all the other variables the same. And substitute the trap bar deadlift.
[00:21:15] Okay, you might actually put on more muscle one final point. I talked about majoring in the minors before I put my money where my mouth is. I think I showed you Carl. We're on Facebook. I recently reorder the copy of super squats that was after a copy of super strength and after another copy of another book.
[00:21:35] I also have two new books coming in about trap bar training the point is this. Before I spend dollar one, even on my product simply jamming progenitor X spend the money for training information. It's only going to help you get more out of not just your training but your supplements to. Great point, you know, it's funny that people don't want to pay for information.
[00:22:00] [00:22:02] Yes. Absolutely. Yeah, I tell you that. It's such a wide variety though. I we have four five. The latest of which is 35 pounds and it is an 80-pound Beast. You know, the other thing to consider is doing multi-joint, you know compound driven by compound movement giant sets of three or more movements in a set.
[00:22:27] If you want to get your you want to build that see I can't do it right now. I have to be able to just walk right now. Yeah, you got but that's coming along. Right? Yeah, I'm home. I go see the doctor tomorrow. I'm hoping I've been walking in slippers around the house in the morning in the evening and you know, the foot doesn't hurt but it's it's getting used to iive for two years.
[00:22:47] I walked on the outer edge of my left foot. Wow, and just learning to put my foot down flat that I can trust it without pain has been, you know quite. An enduring task in and of [00:23:00] itself, but definitely once he says yeah, you can get into a regular sneaker. The first time to do the next morning is walk for half hour.
[00:23:07] I'm going to walk for half hour for a month straight and then I'm going to walk for an hour for a month straight. I'm going to slowly just walk and just walk and get the foot moving. Is it still swollen now that most of the swollen swelling is gone now? Yeah, most of the swelling is completely gone.
[00:23:22] I have been wearing compression socks to help to push the fluid out of the of the foot and it has worked and now I don't need them. So so the swelling is gone. Yes. And that picture after surgery looked like a Sasquatch track. Yeah. I know. You know, it doesn't look great now either I got to be honest with you.
[00:23:40] So when you have foot surgery for some reason the skin gets dark. I don't know if it's scar tissue or I don't know what it is, but the foot is darker than the other foot right now. And and and that's typical everybody. I've spoken to says yeah, it's like that for probably about a year. So the actually I kid around with the Lisa [00:24:00] and say that I'm a Blackfoot now, you know like Blackfoot Indian.
[00:24:03] They only have one I have one Blackfoot. So I'm a Blackfoot. All right, let's take a break when we come back. We have more questions to answer stay tuned doing the show the old-fashioned way. So Jim Hardin says I've heard people talking about how much protein you need to build muscle everyone. I know takes some kind of way.
[00:24:25] Can you revisit? That for a bit and what was the name of the machine? You spoke about a few weeks ago the one you can use to load and deload various exercises. Yeah. So let's talk about protein first first thing. You know, I've seen all the studies about how much protein hard training athletes need in particular right those of us that push hard in the weight room.
[00:24:51] I have also done everything from a no protein diet for short stretches. 250 grams of protein per day all the way up [00:25:00] to 400 grams a day when I was younger and my youth so let me tell you what I've learned first. I think there is a certain minimum amount of protein you need but I do not believe it's static meaning day in and day out right cuz we know from studies for example that in natural trainees protein synthesis is elevated.
[00:25:25] 48 hours after exercise. We also know that in those over 40 something called anabolic resistance shrinks that window to just 24 hours. So clearly what you do in the weight room and for how long afterwards, you know, there are some particulars there that you need to take into consideration second.
[00:25:49] There is also research showing. But the body does better on bolus doses of protein, right every four to five hours going further. I [00:26:00] have done just fine eating protein only once or twice a day when I'm intermittent fasting. In fact, I was shocked to find I could cut my protein pretty much in half and still gain strength and the gym third.
[00:26:18] Let's again get back to critical thing. Just look around everyone and their brother is shoveling down Cheapo way every two hour every two to three hours. Okay. Nobody I can see is growing any great amount of muscle with that kind of strategy instead I much prefer to emphasize protein timing and quality Thrive for example right versus Cheapo way.
[00:26:49] You've probably seen these steps to Carl. You know, I've seen anywhere from six months to a year, but during that time your entire body is rebuilt [00:27:00] everything from the hair on your head down to your toenails with the protein that you eat and obviously the higher quality of protein the stronger the structure moral of the story you want to you know build a house with bricks.
[00:27:17] And not straw now. Let me get to the deload machine. Actually, it would be more accurate to say it helps you load and deload all of the big basic exercises. You can see both myself and the creator of the machine Frank Robles friend of the show demonstrating it if you go to YouTube. In punch in the words strength equals, you can write that as all one word strength equals the second link down you see me and Frank demoing half a dozen maybe a dozen moves it is he first off ranks a great guy.
[00:27:59] He is [00:28:00] incredibly strong garage Gym trainer the strongman stuff does power lifting stuff and is a probably one of the best Minds I've ever come across. In terms of tinkering and that's how we came up with this piece of equipment. I'll tell you this if it was in every gym, there will be a lot more muscle in the world and I wholeheartedly believe that so if you're interested in after taking a look at it, you can contact him at Big Bad Bronx be our onx at hotmail.com.
[00:28:38] So I appreciate your question. Use protein strategically and give given that machine a look at it, you know, if nothing else it'll give you some good ideas in the gym. The next question comes from Tom dear on dir ò ó n he says what's your opinion of static holds for isolation movements. I see some of these being performed in my gym [00:29:00] and not sure whether or not they have any Merit.
[00:29:04] Yeah, you know generally speaking. I'm not a fan of isolation movements period in fact, I think people waste a lot of time. On them and and there are a lot of people that I see almost their entire routine. It's consisted of these isolation movements. We all only have so much time energy and Recovery ability.
[00:29:28] Okay, you can't convince me for example that tricep kickbacks. Or doing anything for you that dips are close grip bench. Press is aren't already doing and doing it a whole lot better to add static holds to an isolation movement to me seems woefully inefficient and possibly dangerous depending upon your working with things like the PEC they'll tie in so right because static holds require a greater amount of weight that you can [00:30:00] lift.
[00:30:00] So it goes like this. We all only have so much time energy and Recovery ability. That's especially so for those not on Super Supplements or of advancing age or those were the you know, big stress job or lifestyle that is already compromising them in those situations. I still feel like compound that only movements are you know, almost a necessity and certainly for hardgainers those of you leaning to the ectomorphic side of the spectrum, but let's say you're young and you're on Super Supplement and you have a no-stress lifestyle or isolation movements.
[00:30:42] Are they worth looking into their I still don't think so. Because you could be spending that time overloading the muscles with much more efficient movement. And here's the kicker. They're safer to boot. Okay? Isolation [00:31:00] moves largely revolve around putting the muscle and joint in the disadvantageous position things like dumbbell flyes Cable Crossovers even leg extensions typically.
[00:31:14] The static holds asking you to use them maximal weight right and hold it motionless to me that's playing with fire. I just don't like the idea one bit. Now. I will concede that. There are individuals that have already built all of their muscular size and strength or 99% of it. with compound movements and hard work on those.
[00:31:39] In those cases the isolation movements might be justified if they're for example a bodybuilder that's considered. You know, that's what's to bring out is bicep peak or or what have you, you know, maybe the vastus medialis teardrop muscle over the knee. Okay, and those situations that might be able to see it but [00:32:00] long story short spend your time.
[00:32:04] And energy on big compound list pushes pulls hinges and squats. If you want to experiment with static hold those will give you the biggest bang for your buck while affording you the highest margin of safety. my two cents. a lot of times as you point out people put their bodies at Great risk, and when you weigh the risk versus reward.
[00:32:30] You know that you can get the same result doing something else as you when you're young you don't care about this as you get older. You start thinking. Wow, if I keep breaking things. This is not going to end up. Well, do you really have a lot of isolation movement? I really don't I do I do so my workout right now just broken up into push and pull days.
[00:32:54] And as I mean, I don't even trained arms. I don't even train. I don't even do bicep curls and tricep [00:33:00] pushdowns only from heaven for years my push day starts out. I sense since I want my shoulders to be the predominant muscle group right now and the push movements I start out with seated shoulder presses.
[00:33:15] And I'm using a machine. it's a plate loaded machine and. And I you know, I'm training with a hundred and ten pounds per hand. Yep, and I'm doing 16 to 20 reps with that. That's my free. I do 5 sets and I graduate up to that. My first set is 30 reps and then I go to 25 and then the 20 and I do I do 5 reps 5 sets and then after I do that I go immediately to a lateral raise machine to hit the middle head of my.
[00:33:51] And I so there you're right. I do do an isolation movements. I'm sorry. So they I do machine isolation movement on that on just the shoulder from [00:34:00] there. I go to a seated press machine and I do 5 sets with that. And then from there I go to a pec deck machine then I do 5 sets with that. And then the last movement I do is actually a Life Fitness.
[00:34:19] Press but it's a seated. I guess dip press you're doing a more of a dip and I lean forward to hit my pecs. Now when you say you go to the tactic, you mean rear dumbbell or excuse me rear delt. I do I do reverse pack. I do reverse pec deck for rear delt on pulled. Right, right. So that's an isolation movement.
[00:34:46] So I do do a pec deck machine for my pecs. I experiment with lots of different variations on this movement I've experimented with. Keeping my keeping my shoulders [00:35:00] pulled back and my scapula is activated and then recently I've actually been doing them in a fashion where I'm literally reaching out as my hands come forward.
[00:35:12] So like if there was a there was a butterfly in front of me. I wanted to swat it between my hands. I'd have to reach out to so I actually end up with the weight and my shoulders pretty far forward and I find that that hits the middle of my pecs better. Whatever you're doing is working man. You got good shoulder.
[00:35:31] I really don't so I have a problem with my shoulders. They are out of alignment. They should they leak the I have more more strength in the front of my shoulder then in the rear and I still do I do pec deck work. I reverse pec deck as part of my back day, but I still have a dominant front front head of the shoulder and it causes me impingements from time to time doing certain things.
[00:35:52] I really wish I could get it back where it belongs. Yep, but yeah, I'm a push pull and eventually leg guy. That's [00:36:00] that's that's my three root three days, you know hard to go wrong. You cannot split like that really is there's a lot to be said for and you know, I always do things in that way. I just changed the way I work, you know, so like for a while I was doing Nate Morrison's to two sets to complete failure and that was really working for a while.
[00:36:19] And now I'm doing five sets and I mean, I just I always do it. Pull legs. I always do that. I just changed the way I train those groups. So let's take a quick commercial break and when we come back, we have a long question that we're going to read and more and sorry we couldn't do Facebook live today.
[00:36:39] I know a lot of people like to ask questions live on the show. We'll get that fixed for next week. Stay tuned. Welcome back Tommy D has a question. He says I applaud your involvement and helping others with anxiety and depression. The two Heavy Hitters you recommended is the blueprint Bolton in the blueprint Bolton are pure gold, but [00:37:00] I don't want to use them too often.
[00:37:03] So I've been scouring the other legal non RX compounds that may help with this. Can you comment on any of the following? How about I just go one by one with. Yeah, you can do that. Although I group a lot of the race. Okay. So let's hit methyl uracil and a receipt. Mm. Oxy receipt mm colorist Edom Paris Edom fennel Pierce Edom CDP choline Alpha GPC and a draft final.
[00:37:37] yeah, well look the situation here is this. Tommy is wifely staying away from the two very powerful compounds. And that I discovered several years ago and just so that subscribers know next month in another week or so. I'm going to be dropping another one. [00:38:00] So be on the lookout for it. This could make it not just a big to but the big three be that as it may.
[00:38:10] You want to make sure that you don't get addicted right and anything that you take that makes you feel better is potentially addicting. Although I don't consider them addicting in the same way. Heroin is right. Nothing here is going to shut down your your respiratory system. But the bitchu ation can happen if it feels good.
[00:38:31] So let's talk about the other options that he's listed here a break them into a couple of categories. First up is something called methyl uracil this stuff showed up on the Soviet literature around the same time as XD stare own erotic acid and Beta alanine And yes beta alanine was another one that was written about by the Russians way back when interesting stuff.
[00:38:57] It is a best muscle Euro. So it's [00:39:00] a source of purine nucleotides and you know by all accounts. It should have worked really really well. The trouble is it didn't and some very Savvy supplement formulators including Patrick Arnold found that out when they Incorporated it into he did into one of his early creatine products if you want to meaningfully boost nucleotide pools.
[00:39:26] And get more ATP in beta alanine and de facto buffering agents into the muscle cell to erotic acid is hands-down the better choice in my opinion. Now the race edom's that are listed here. Our vast even though he's you know written a good half a dozen. There are several dozen at least that I read about I pretty much tried all the ones.
[00:39:52] That he has lifted plus a few that he has it here is what I tell you phenol paracetamol is the best of the [00:40:00] bunch by far field Paris Edom is pure see them with a phenyl group attached allowing it to more easily cross the blood-brain barrier. That's not unlike fennel boot, which is a phenol which is you know in effect phenyl Gaba.
[00:40:16] Both work much better than their parent compounds alone due to that phenyl group as with all nootropics though a driver of sorts such as low dose of caffeine ephedrine or other stimulant seems to make them work just a touch better. Now. I'm not talking about a lot of caffeine or a lot of ephedrine how much am I talking 50 maybe 80 milligrams of caffeine?
[00:40:45] Maybe 25 mg of ephedrine. It's not a lot. You don't need a lot. If on the other hand, you're talking about boosting acetylcholine in the brain then hands down. I think you want Alpha GPC 6 [00:41:00] 600 to 1200 milligrams of about 90 minutes prior to a workout has shown some pretty interesting effects, including not just a boost and GH a lot of things boost GH.
[00:41:14] But up to 14 percent strength increase 14% of the ton folks. So, you know at the very least give it a try. It is pricey but works it's worth the Bucks rather and it works better than most of the race edom's it also and this is important Alpha GPC and Joyce graph status generally recognized as safe.
[00:41:37] At least it did with the FDA versus the race even. Which are more so on the fda's radar? Next we get to a draft until a draft panel is the prodrug to modafinil also known as what provigil and think you said provigil. Yeah. So while modafinil is [00:42:00] illegal in the US without a prescription a draft until it's precursor is not it takes about 45 minutes to kick in.
[00:42:08] Versus less than 15 for modafinil in my opinion and it improves focus and wakefulness the one caveat with it is this even more so than more definite. It's a liver hitter and as such you don't want to use it right on subsequent days. If your Co ingesting it to with other medications that do stress the liver then look you probably want to use.
[00:42:34] You're a good grammar to of curcumin a gram to a gram and a half of any fetal cysteine. I don't consider it. So toxic as to Warrant use of to go which is, you know, the best hands down liver protect them that I found and the best of the bunch, but that's my opinion. It's a very interesting field the [00:43:00] nootropic drugs.
[00:43:01] United States is way behind Europe when it comes to them. So your best bet when researching them is to poke around what's going on in the European Union and message boards around there. They are typically six months to a year or more ahead of the curve than the United States and just one more time subscribers.
[00:43:23] I got a big one coming. For March 1st, so next Thursday. Not this does this Thursday? We have the ReNew Life RX Show with Adam Lamb next Thursday. We will launch a brand new show called the pep talk and we will cover every peptide out there today show by show. We're going to start off. We're going to start off next week.
[00:43:51] A cursory review of the effective and available through your physician without having to DEA knock on your door the effective [00:44:00] growth hormone secreted Gog. So people who are willing to get over the fear of sticking a needle in their belly fat the size of an eyelash. And don't want to get robbed by companies promoting crap like Sarah vital on TV owed raise your growth hormone, you know, it's like come on if it really worked the FDA wouldn't let them sell it and but but you could get this stuff prescribed now through your doctor.
[00:44:24] I mean, there is an explosion in peptide prescriptions right now in the United States, so you need to know about. If you really want to raise growth hormone next Thursday on superhero radio, we will start the first pep talk the second pep talk which will be the not the following week. But the week after it's going to be every other Thursday with dr.
[00:44:43] Carl page. We're going to cover some really exciting really effective nootropic peptides. peptides that improve brain function and cognition and memory peptides that improve mood [00:45:00] and they work they really really work like it's not like it's not like, you know, oh, you know, this doesn't work for me that no, no just like this growth hormone secreted Gods when you inject them.
[00:45:10] You see a pulse of growth hormone be spit out of your pituitary. He's actually affect the brain. That's a great idea for a show. Yeah, and they got and the nice thing about it is I don't have to tell people you got to break the law to you know, you call your doctor and if your doctor was I've never known anything about this you send them to the international peptide Society website.
[00:45:29] So your doctor can be trained and fully apprised of how to use these peptides and they can write prescriptions for them. And there's about two dozen pharmacies around the United States today that have purchased amino acid sequences are making peptides on the premises. So so quick question, how are they able to do that if they haven't been through all the trials and so forth you guys because they're not they're not DEA scheduled drugs.
[00:45:57] They are they have [00:46:00] no lethal dose. And there is a there is the FDA and the DEA have allowed doctors to put like for instance doctors can no longer prescribe GH rp6. Don't ask me why the FDA just said, you know what? CJ C 1295, no problem, you know modified growth factor 1 through 20 are no problem.
[00:46:27] Summer Ellen. No problem it primeira. No problem. Thymosin beta for no problem bpc 157 no problem and some of these other peptides that we're going to be exploring that a little-known like LL 3 7. I just did not too long ago. No one knew what LL 3 7 was before I did that show. There are there is a host of peptides that are allowed to be prescribed right now and but GH rp6 for some reason the FDA went nowhere almost like a stingy kid.
[00:46:56] I will give you all that. But I'm keeping [00:47:00] this one. I'm taking it back. It's like no run. Yeah GG one of the safest and if anything the reason they may be taking it back. I have a funny feeling is that the medical industry wants to capitalize on it? Because what's one of the biggest problems that happens to elderly people they lose their appetite.
[00:47:20] They stop eating they thought when they start shrinking they become frail. They die. Well, G as anyone who's ever used, uh rp6 knows a hundred micrograms and boy you're ready. Man, I'm hungry. Let's go. Imagine taking a person who says I have no appetite. I can't I can't I hate eating and you say okay no problem at 6 a.m.
[00:47:40] In the morning take a shot of this at 12 take a shot as and then at dinner time 5:00 p.m. Take a shot of this they'll eat all three of their meals that day. This is so cool. New help for old guys, huh? Yeah. Yeah and it's and you can get it through your doctor. It's not it's no longer, you know, Black Market.
[00:47:55] Oh, I'm buying scary stuff over the internet thing. It's legit. [00:48:00] So so yeah that that's so the only reason I bring that up is because the question about nootropics there are nootropic peptides out there that actually do change things in the brain. The next question comes from longtime. Listener Johnny Gray.
[00:48:12] He says, how is your training going? I saw that hundred pound hands hundred pound weighted handstand that you posted on Facebook the other day incredible. I've set some strength goals of my own but recently been stuck down with the back injury the shingles. And something feels torn in my quad.
[00:48:33] Wow, how would you approach things given my predicament? Yeah. Well he and I have a lot in common. It sounds like especially the shingles part, especially the singles. Yeah my training to answer your question. Johnny has been going fantastic. I hit a 500-pound parallel box squat Saturday. Which was more than a year in the making and as [00:49:00] well as several other lifts that I'll be posting or talking about and just want to give a shout out to my wife.
[00:49:07] None of that would have been possible without her being by my side. She cooks. She cooks the Anna anabolic diet for me every day of the week, and she keeps a great home. So I want to thank her for that. So yeah, I hit some long-term goals the 500-pound bomb squad. It was a long road over a year from 400 to 500 and it has everything to do Johnny with your present ailments because I overcame all of those same situations and conditions to so so let's talk about how I did it and now you can do it too first off.
[00:49:48] I had a plan. Okay I had. Half a dozen loading patterns at my fingertips and I had them all arranged just so okay. I can't [00:50:00] remember who said it but you know Muhammad Ali or Tyson. They said something to the effect of yeah, but everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the head. My first Punch To The Head was a back injury that sent me back two weeks, but believe it or not.
[00:50:14] I pick right back up where I left off next up. What's like him had shingles mine were in the mouth that set me back around three weeks or so and I obviously lost them there. I had to establish a new lower one rep max start a new loading pattern that I had waiting in the wings. I was now squatting about let's say for 75 or so, right?
[00:50:43] So I was doing the Striking Distance of 500. This is going back almost six months. I got hit at that point with a nasty case of rhabdo. That was my own fault, but it is what it is right now that really set me back. In [00:51:00] fact, I had to drop my one rep max all the way down from 475 to 435 but still. I persevered by the time I was knocking on 500 store again.
[00:51:13] I suffered yet another back injury this time. It was something as stupid as get literally getting up out of this chair that I'm sitting in my lower back muscles seized up, but he stayed that way for about a week and gratefully I was able to pick up where I left off and I finally squatted by 500 pounds less Saturday.
[00:51:36] So let's look at. How long is able to accomplish that given the challenges that presented themselves number one have a plan and hopefully it's better than just you know, I'm going to go in the gym and I'm just going to kind of wing it if the squat racks open great, but if not, then I guess I'll deadlift and if both of those are done, I'm just [00:52:00] going to bench.
[00:52:00] No, you have to have a set plan. For your big lift, you have to have a goal and you have to have the means to get there. Okay, even more important than that though. I would tell you this have a back-up plan. I can't count the number of times. I've had to go to plan B in life. I don't know if that's what that saying about my plan a but having plan b c and d is not a bad thing.
[00:52:32] You also need to surround yourself. So with people that can help you when I threw my back out this latest time and I mean, I was real close to 500. I threw it out. I got straight away to a chiropractor. I know good friend of mine who takes Jiu-Jitsu with me and he hooked me up with two or three quick adjustments.
[00:52:53] That was a big part of the reason why I was able to heal up so much. I also. Believe it or [00:53:00] not in that state picked up my wall walk from just once a week to twice a week and my ab work. I'm convinced that that helped me as well. Perhaps most important of all. never give up. You must persevere Winston Churchill gave up one of his most famous speeches ever it consisted of these nine words, never give up never give up.
[00:53:28] Never give up. He turned away from the podium and he walked back to his seat. Now. You might be able to say hey, that's not the most eloquent speech I ever heard but I guarantee you everyone that was in attendance that day remembered what he said and they got his message and that is Miles better than all these fancy things other people try to say.
[00:53:51] Okay, you never ever give up. However, it's not even in your vocabulary. You may have to switch [00:54:00] gears. You may have to lower expectations temporarily but you never give up final thing. I'll say is this the best defense is a good offense with aggressively rip offensively when you're done healing up go back to lifting off fensively because the person who plays defense.
[00:54:23] When you have you wait or deadlift? Same thing happens to them that somebody who plays football at 80% You're going to get hurt get it out of your head your back your hundred percent your never giving up period end of story. That's gotta be the mindset ma'am, of course and the older you get the more important that mindset becomes we're going to take our last commercial break when we come back.
[00:54:50] We're going to talk about skin cancer. One of my favorite things to talk about is it yours to Rob? It's becoming yeah. I know and everybody will learn why in just a second [00:55:00] stay tuned. What the heck? No music. That's okay. Welcome back to super human radio. So Rob you want to talk about. Skin cancer why pray tell well, yeah, the tip of the day is about keeping skin cancer at Bay, so I just got done.
[00:55:19] Telling you how important my wife is. Not just to me but to my success. I mean, she literally underpins everything that I do in the gym and I'll swear. so. Ring tiny little problem though a few months ago. She was recently diagnosed with skin cancer. She said both melanoma. She's had melanoma before just right before I met her she had melanoma.
[00:55:49] So on the side of her face and most recently basal cell in three different places. Needless to say, that's a truck. That's a traumatic [00:56:00] diagnosis. Fortunately basal cell is. You know less threatening than melanoma but still skin cancer skin cancer, right? Fortunately. They think they caught it early.
[00:56:12] And and what was true. She's Irish and very fair skin. That doesn't mean the rest of us are not at risk. In fact skin cancer is now more common than all other cancers combined. So let's just let that sink in for a moment. Skin cancer more prevalent and every other cancer combined now, here's what I'm not going to tell you.
[00:56:38] I'm not going to tell you to avoid the sun because we are meant to get Sunshine. That's how you get your vitamin D. Right and we all know how important vitamin D is instead. I'm going to ask that you follow a few simple guidelines and preventative measures because. You know, well, it made me late February [00:57:00] and freezing outside.
[00:57:01] It's 30 degrees here from trust me. That's a that's balmy compared to what yesterday was. There is no better time than now to get started with prevention. So I would tell you not to get excessive some right. There's too much of a good thing. It can hurt you, but also tell you this. Ditch your chemical sunscreens because the probably doing more to hurt you than they are to help you.
[00:57:31] I mean think about it logically if these sunscreens were so effective at preventing skin cancer and everybody's using them. Why is you know why have as their widespread use not made a dent? Why is skin cancer still so prevalent. In fact, the situation has gotten worse. If you do wish to use a sunscreen.
[00:57:55] Please opt for something like zinc oxide. I don't know if [00:58:00] there's a magnesium oxide as well. But the point is this they actually there have a really nice one. Now. It's perfectly clear that like the old colored stuff you put on your nose, right? You have to finger paint your whole body with the old stuff.
[00:58:16] But some of the newer ones are really good they cost. Two to three times as much as the chemical ones, but they are infinitely safer and do a better job. I'll tell you what though for my money the real honest-to-goodness best strategy to protect your skin. Is not from the outside in it's from the inside out and you do that by loading your skin and body with antioxidants and other.
[00:58:47] That you can benefit from so a few ideas among. Those are baby aspirin egcg Abigail Callaghan garlic from green tea [00:59:00] extract curcumin, Lord knows curcumin and all the curcuminoids in it as well as shiitake mushrooms. Check this out though aspirin alone. Can cook skin cancer risk dramatically. In fact people who used it twice a week for five years.
[00:59:20] So the risk of skin cancer reduced by 60 percent while those that are used it daily for at least five years. So reduction of 90% think about that folks 60% and 90% reduction of the most prevalent cancer out there today. And best of all the benefits start to accrue they start to show up after as little as one year of use now not everybody can use aspirin for various reasons, but it's about the cheapest preventative medicine.
[00:59:54] You're going to find on this list. My all-time favorite for tanning safely [01:00:00] for me is broads organic chem fastened them. It allows a fair skinned person such as myself. To stay in the Sun for extended periods of time without burning without peeling and with just a modicum of sunshine 10,000 fans colors to skin a nice bronze deep tanning color.
[01:00:25] If you for example, okay can't thousand people ask me. Where does that come from? If you eat store-bought salmon, most of it is pink in with can't fasten them. It's also found in small quantities in ketchup. It exists naturally and critters around the equator right like flamingos lobsters and other Crustaceans.
[01:00:47] The FDA will tell you it is not approved as an old tanning agent. They will allow it as a food coloring go figure either way. You're swallowing the stuff. Okay. Here's [01:01:00] the most important tip though. Yep, checked out by dermatologist at least once a year. It literally takes 10 minutes 10 minutes and it is wonderful peace of mind or should be for you.
[01:01:16] If some of your you know days are spent exposed to the sun very fair-skinned folk, like myself and my wife consider going twice a year, you know, we both do and I sure am glad that we do. FYI, the three spots where my wife was recently diagnosed. Sunshine generally doesn't reach so it's not just those areas like the bridge of your nose under your eyes the top of your ears not just those areas that get a lot of sunshine.
[01:01:49] It's elsewhere and only a dermatologist is going to be able to look at something and say you know what? That doesn't look quite right. Let me just biopsy that let's [01:02:00] just make sure there's you know, nothing malignant here send it off to a lab. You have the results in a couple days. All right.
[01:02:07] Remember this to the skin is your largest organ taking care of. It should be Paramount. It's a great indicator right of Inner Health a lot of times. You see people with Ruddy skin. See people with you know, blotchy skin. Pretty much a safe bet there's something going on underneath that's causing that.
[01:02:30] Okay. So here's the message. Enjoy your son. But know the risks life is about mitigating those risks those things that are within your control and hopefully I've given you some ideas here to do just that I sincerely hope this helps because. As prevalent as it is it's treatable and preventable.
[01:02:57] There's a gentleman that I know. That [01:03:00] was just diagnosed with stage 4 skin cancer spent a lot of time in the Sun never went to get checked out. out 60 years old. They basically told them there's nothing they could do and to get his Affairs in order. So. I'm not trying to scare anybody. I am telling you the play it smart.
[01:03:26] That's my two cc's of skin cancer. Yeah, and we know that skin cancer is all caused by what you put in your mouth and that's the bottom line. Well, you know you're going to if somebody close to you doesn't have it. You're going to know somebody that does and personally, I don't want to look back and say geez, you know what?
[01:03:48] I know I was a sun worshipper guy. I never did a damn thing to protect my including pop and maybe a baby aspirin a day, which could have cut my cancerous 90%. Don't [01:04:00] ya know I know I know. Yeah. Well, is it sunny down there in Louisville? Hell no, it's 36 degrees today. So this is warm. Oh gosh, that's as bad as awful moment in in the 20s a lot here lately.
[01:04:15] But how about the summer? Oh this summer gets hot and balmy. It's humid here. You know? Yeah, thank you spend a lot of time in the sun. Oh God. Yes. I try to get into Sunday lie, even if it's just for you know, 20 minutes. Yeah, right. Absolutely. He can lay out the backyard. You got a pool. We do have a pool, but I'm looking forward to moving out of this house and buying a new house and that doesn't have a pool because of pools a pain in the neck.
[01:04:40] I won't fight you there. How about something close to the ocean? I wish I'd like to move to Florida. But if it's in the cards will it's tough to see, you know, Louisville's a great time man. I was there on business and have friends there. Love it some of the best food in the world. Oh my far it's a it's a cultural Mecca here and people don't [01:05:00] realize it so Louisville Kentucky is a test market for yum brands.
[01:05:06] But what yum why um yum brands a own McDonalds. They own like Pepsi or Coke. I forget Mountain do they own long KFC they own like all these different French franchise stores, they own and and so whenever they test a new food like a KFC when I moved here 20 years ago, they were testing chicken livers.
[01:05:32] Wow, and they had about a half a dozen stores here in Louisville that we're testing chicken livers, and I used to like chicken livers back then and I would eat them, but you couldn't get them anywhere else, but then slowly over the years now, you can get chicken livers probably in just about every market.
[01:05:46] So this is a test market for a lot of food brands. They test them here first to see if it's going to work before they unleash it on the country. Here's the big question, and I know you probably don't partake. [01:06:00] What is Krispy Kreme Doughnuts still around hell? Yeah, they make they give me agita. If I eat one of those donuts whatever the oil is that they fry him in that I just burped that stuff up for hours and hours and hours.
[01:06:12] It's disgusting. Yeah, I have a friend who loves Krispy Kreme in. He flies and one of the rewards he gives himself where I don't think you're doing anymore because actually lost a bunch of weight, but he used to you know, go to Krispy Kreme and pick up a box and bring them home and eat them until you start shaking, right?
[01:06:31] Yeah. I don't think he ate them all at one time, but I think he you know, he a couple of day and he just love them so much and I just I don't even like them, you know when I was a kid, I like glazed doughnuts. Yep. But the the flay I can taste this crappy oil they use now, you know, I can taste it right in there.
[01:06:48] It's just yeah the worst part about that food is it feels good for about two minutes and then you feel horrible for now and then you feel for hours if not the rest of [01:07:00] the day. Yeah, that's terrible. So they got to come up with a protein shake that tastes like that. Yeah, right. I know protein the offer.
[01:07:10] You got the sweetener down pat I'm thriving and if I'm not mistaken you use what is if the amino glycine glycine? I can't believe more people have it. Well and a lot of people say to me glycine has a metallic taste and like Thrive has a metallic finish taste and some people probably do taste that.
[01:07:29] Because it almost tastes like like vanilla frosting it does it does but it but if you look for it, you can taste the glycine if you look for it and some people don't like that. It doesn't bother me at all. I just think it tastes good and look at the research on glycine my God, we don't get enough of it.
[01:07:46] Actually. It actually has been shown to mitigate the potential. Fast aging effects of a high protein diet high in methionine is associated with Advanced aging on a cellular level and [01:08:00] glycine backs that up. It stops that from happening, you know these drink mixes that use aspartame and on and so forth.
[01:08:08] Why are they not using glycine? Is it cost? Probably probably she's got. Probably will be a lot healthier place. You didn't you did knock out job on that man. When I say that vanilla frosting. I'm sincere. Yeah, it smells like vanilla frosting when you first open The Jug to yeah, really? Yeah, my dog loves when I its occupant.
[01:08:31] Yeah, it's pretty good stuff. And we have a sale. That's another sale. It's going to start and also if you listen to the show on your International email me at on are at superhuman radio. We have a special International deal if you buy a case of the three pounders. So that's four three Pounders.
[01:08:53] That's 12 pounds. And we actually have gotten the shipping down to like 20 some [01:09:00] 20 something dollars. Yeah. I can't even tell you how we're doing it. We got in the shipping down to like 20 something dollars and and and you won't have to pay that much. Vat tax touristy. I know custom you like this.
[01:09:14] Some people bought product and Sweden. Yep, and like they one guy Lars Thorn home. He purchased 10 one-pound jugs. And and the Customs tax on it was $70 us. Wow, that that said seven dollars a unit to the. And you get nothing for it, you get the privilege of being able to use, you know, get to accept the package at your home.
[01:09:44] It's so stupid but we found some things we found some things we found some things. I'm not going to talk about it, but we found some ways that we can reduce that vat tax to maybe 10 15 dollars u.s. Lars Lars is not only an [01:10:00] incredible physique. He's got a credible mine. Yeah, he's brilliant. He's smart girl like that would communicate a lot.
[01:10:04] So, you know, If you listen to the show when you thinking man, I live in the UK, I live in Italy I live wherever and you think man. I would really like to try Thrive email me at on are at superhuman radio dotnet and we have if you're willing to buy a case, which is for three pound jugs, we can get it to you at a really outstanding price.
[01:10:25] Like that's all I can in the mid 200s like for the whole how and and that includes shipping. 12 pounds of protima for 200 now in mid 200s, like I think it's like 2 54 or something like that are polluting shipping and then and then and then we have a way to reduce the the Customs charge taxes him.
[01:10:48] Wow. That's a hell of a deal. I know it is it's crazy. It is crazy. Yeah. So anyway. So check it out on are at Super Mario down and of course visit coach [01:11:00] Rob register.com often so that you could be stronger and smarter I brother anything else. You need to cover. Don't just want to say thank you and appreciate the show.
[01:11:09] I will try to get Facebook live going next week. Yeah, we'll figure out the problem. We'll see you next week. I'll box. I see everybody tomorrow. We'll see Rob next week. Thanks. Take care. Bye bye. See you tomorrow.
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