Rob Regish

Listener questions are answered about training, nutrition, supplementation and more.

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Show Notes:

[3:13]- Carl discusses his experiences at the Arnold.

[5:58]- Carl discusses his podcast collaboration with the Advices radio crew at the Arnold.

[8:15]- Carl discusses problems with tainted products in the kratom industry.

[10:35]- Rob discusses the advantages and disadvantages of a trap bar.

• Data suggests a possible 7% increase in total weight lifted for a deadlift.
• You need to know the weight of your trap bar OR only count the weight on the bar in your log book for consistency’s sake.
• Optimal frequency for most will be the same as conventional deadlifts: once every 7-10 days.
• Frequency could possibly be upped if heavy and speed days are alternated.
• Example protocols: 5x5, 3x3, or the loading patterns in the blueprint.
• Trap bar deads stimulate the most topographical muscle than nearly any other lift.

[17:27] Versatility of the trap bar.

[17:47] what has become of powerbuilding?

• How political views can ruin good business.

[25:45] Diet and meal frequency for fat loss.

• Intermittent fasting keeps insulin and glycemic variance low.
• Only a caloric deficit will cause any appreciable fat loss.

[33: 54] Supplements for younger kids.

• A blender and whole foods.
• Essential amino acids intra workout- teaches the importance of high quality protein and supplement timing.
• Reserve creatine as your “Ace in the Hole”.

[42:00] Glutamine for GH release to “melt fat”?

• NO!
• The best uses for glutamine are in treating leaky gut and for burn victims.
• Use GABA instead of glutamine for transient GH release.
• GHRP-6 combined with mechano-growth factor 1-29 multiple times per day will control the pulse of GH, if you are really looking to up your levels.

[59:35]Progenedrex on the anabolic diet?

• Progenedrex will make you hungrier. This can make dieting for fat loss more difficult.
• Due to various ingredients in Progenedrex, such as alpha lipoic acid, it could be used during the refeed phase of the anabolic diet, especially when bulking.
• Carl discusses his stories with GHRP-6 and brewer’s yeast.

[1:10:11] ] High intensity training.

• Great for strength gains, but muscle gain may lag behind.
• Requires greater rest time than conventional volume training.

Mike Mentzer had Rod rest up to 2 weeks between sessions in some cases.

[1:16:06] Carl discusses the fallacies of training to failure.

• Stimulate the peripheral nervous system without depleting the central nervous system.

[1:26:50] Blueprint tip of the day: The importance of standing the test of time.

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Show Transcript

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[00:00:00] Hey look, it's me. I like doing video. I like seeing myself today is Tuesday, which means it's the blueprint Power Hour with Coach Rodriguez. She's going to join me in just a moment. We'll probably talk about my visit to the Arnold which was a lot of fun. I'm trying to get this this image down.

[00:00:53] Let me just run Rob's Music. Hold on a second. Let's just do this calling all blueprint. [00:01:00] Fall in line. It's time for the blueprint Power Hour with Coach Rodriguez on the Superhuman Radio Network.

[00:01:10] Well, it's always something right so I can't get the darn image to disappear. I can make it go solo. I can get rid of the solo and the little icon that deletes it and remove it doesn't seem to be working. So we're gonna have to do this like this for a couple minutes until I can figure out. Okay. I don't you know, it's always something you know, it's like well at least we're on this week at least so far.

[00:01:35] Yeah, right. Don't say that to to let me see something. Hold on a second. Let me see somebody. Yeah, nothing about that photo is working at all. I'm supposed to be able to delete it move. And I can definitely make it go solo. I wonder if I hit both of our buttons solo. What happened now? Okay, I so I'll be right back on the screen.

[00:01:53] Anyway, I did go to the Arnold. I had a great time we could talk a little bit about that if you want to and then we'll start [00:02:00] doing people's questions. We have lots of good questions and you can ask a question. You can ask questions. Also, by the way on Facebook to this post right here if you want to so someone really curious.

[00:02:12] How was. And and what were the freebies like? Well, I didn't get any of the freebies because I don't I just can't take the crowd to tell you the truth. It's just it just nerve-racking for me. The number of people walking around that exhibit is just stifling and I get like I get like sensory overload in crowds like that because I'm constantly scanning people.

[00:02:37] There's people up against you and people to the side of you. I spent a lot of time at the red car. On both purposefully to hang out with Aaron. I had a meal with Aaron and Daryl Thursday night, which was really a lot of fun. And yeah, it was it was just it just crazy. It's crazy. It's frenetic and it's that way for four [00:03:00] days continuously even Sunday, you know used to be Sundays.

[00:03:03] Used to be kind of a dead day because everybody was going home on Sunday. Not anymore Sunday. There was a crowd there. That was unbelievable. Yeah. Listen, I'm guessing you met a lot of sh our listeners, huh? Yeah, my camera just unconnected. I think I'm going to be getting rid of be live TV very shortly because because nothing is it.

[00:03:22] Yeah you did you did. Hold on a second. Hold on. I have a black screen. Yeah, I think we need to just forget about be live TV. I'm going. I'm going to call Rob on the phone. Everybody. Just sit tight. This is this is bullshit. I'm tired of this shit. I really am. Hold

[00:03:44] on.

[00:03:51] Just sit tight everybody. I'll get robbed. Screen went [00:04:00] black. Yeah, I know. It's I'm so tired of this. I got to tell you a be live TV has really become like a letdown to me. Yeah, it was working fine before know recently. We just can't get it going and I'm you know, I'm paying money for this fucking thing, and I'm sorry I'm cursing for those of you.

[00:04:18] This is generally a family friendly show. But I'm so tired of having to struggle with this kind of shit that's supposed to be so simple to do and it's not at all. So, okay. So we're going to do things the old-fashioned way. We're going to go back to the original podcast approach which has never let me down or four rarely lets me down.

[00:04:39] But but yeah, it was fun at the Arnold and I got to meet a lot of people and made a lot of people made me feel special. Scott McNally from bodybuilding nerds radio and advices radio had a live podcast event Saturday morning, right and I was fortunate enough to be invited to it. And I did go [00:05:00] and I got to meet skip Hill and dr.

[00:05:03] Scott Stevens and in person and I met a lot of really cool people that came up to me and they're like, oh man, I can't believe Carla Nora's here and I'm like, what are you talking about? You know, I'm not even. Relevant anymore and apparently people still listen to the show that are within the bodybuilding community.

[00:05:18] So it's really cool. It really really is awesome with so there was no talk of any like new super stimulants or stuff like that. No, nothing that I paid attention to I maybe there was and it just wasn't around near me. I mean that could be it but now I know there was nothing nothing exciting that I saw there, you know, there was there was a Kratom sponsor that I'm trying to get I'm going to.

[00:05:42] Get a board on Superman radio because because we have a we have a CBD sponsor that's doing really very well right now H hemp they've been doing well, they just renewed their contract. I mean that tells you something and so. We know that [00:06:00] that appeals to the audience. There was a crowd I'm sponsor.

[00:06:03] They're the only Kratom sponsored that the Arnold would let in because they're actually investing through the University of Florida money into study and Kratom and they have a very very high quality organic highly standardized Kratom and I used some of it. I took some of it home with me and I thought wow this stuff really I only took a gram of it and I could.

[00:06:28] Felt fantastic. I didn't need the you know, the traditional three grams to feel anything. What kind of strength they had. They I got the red vein. Yep, and I got them mod night dong. Dang Mah, whatever it is, you know. Yeah. I got one of each of those and I have them in my car actually and yeah.

[00:06:48] Yeah and one of them they said is really good for working out like a kind of hyper focus is you I think that was the. The red vein but I could be wrong, but I want to make that I want the I want to get them on the show as sponsors because there's a lot of [00:07:00] people in our audience that are using Kratom and what they were telling me at the booth was there's so much of this loose leaf crowd.

[00:07:08] I'm coming into the country that is that is Tainted with stuff. Yep. That's highly sprayed. But more importantly it's just not standardized for anything and people are like taking it and they're not getting any results or they're taking it in. Feel sick and nauseous from it and they say, you know, look the Kratom industry is kind of like the wild west right now everybody and their mothers has a connection in Vietnam that wants to sell them Kratom, but it's not it's not all good stuff.

[00:07:37] Yeah. No, I understand exactly what you're talking about. And that's unfortunate because as you know, you get the good stuff it works like no. I like this stuff and it comes in a jar. The packaging is nice. It's nicely packaged but they also have capsules. So yeah, I'm excited about it. I [00:08:00] had a good time.

[00:08:01] We have our first question from Sean Wasson who is a huge friend of the show, by the way, his wife makes soap. That's unbelievable. I will find the name in the next break and promote them because they were kind enough to send me into Lisa soap. So magnificent makes your skin feel so good. I even use it to wash my hair.

[00:08:21] That should tell you something but we'll get that name to before the end of the show. And the other thing I want to mention is this if you listen to the show, And you have the ability to sell digital advertising. I want to hear from you. I want you to email me at on are at superlative dotnet because we need more sales people.

[00:08:41] We really can't keep up anymore. I have an outside sales group. They can't they're the ones that are. Mack Weldon and all these big players but we need an in-house sales person again, so if you can sell and you want to be part of the Superhuman family email me at on are at superhuman radio [00:09:00] dotnet I tell you this right now if you're legitimately a hard worker and you're not sandbagging me, you're not like putting in an hour a day.

[00:09:08] And and stroking me, but if you're really putting it to work day, you can make seventy five to ninety thousand a year at home working from home. And that's not be as I've had people come to work for me. They start out gangbusters and then they go off and they go do something else. I don't want that.

[00:09:22] I want somebody who wants to be part of this team. You can make 75 to 90 k a year from home. I guarantee it. I guarantee it. But anyway, Sean Watson says, hey guys, I just ordered a trap bar with the thought of changing. My deadlift while taking a little bit of pressure off my lower back. It's been acting up again and had its been threatening to grab me.

[00:09:45] I am taking Rob's advice and working on my bridging and stretching to try to head off the grass. But it occurred to me that the trap bar change changes the angle a bit [00:10:00] and takes the stress off the lower back. What are your thoughts on using the trap bar long-term and I work out at home in my home gym only parenthetically.

[00:10:09] He says yeah. So if you're not competing the trap bar is a fine core lift it as a matter of fact as a driver and that's the term I use for movements that stimulate. Muscle growth and over the body as a driver. It may be the absolute best for reasons that will get into now a couple of things research shows that you can't wrap our deadlift about 7% more okay than your conventional deadlift, but it's still it's obviously different for different people.

[00:10:44] I want you to put that in perspective though if you can say deadlift 400 pounds. 7% on 400 pounds is another but 2830. Okay. Now you're at 4:30, but [00:11:00] we're still not done. If you can do reps. Let's say 10 of them, you know 30 times 10 is 300 you just added an additional 300 pounds of overload and consequently muscle growth.

[00:11:13] So think about that. Prior to seeing that study. I actually felt that the Trap our deadlift was a bit more difficult given your you can't lean as far over the bar and consequently, your lower back doesn't come that much in the play. That could be psychological. I don't know. This next point is very very important and I can't underscore it enough.

[00:11:41] No your trap bar way. I've seen trap bars ranging in weight from 35 pounds up to 80 pounds, you know on average the 4550 the point here is this don't assume get that [00:12:00] bar on a scale and no to the pound exactly how much that is. I've been guilty of that if not doing that in the past and I got to tell you when I got to one of my other gyms.

[00:12:13] I'm I'm not infrequently and went to do my trap are dead lasat day. It felt like somebody turned the gravity way up why that was an 80-pound trap bar. So it pays to know your number if you don't want to weigh it for some reason then count only the weight on the bar whatever it is, whatever it is it needs to be.

[00:12:37] Now the same rules apply though till the Trap are that due to the deadlift meaning you can't deadlift this frequently as let's say you box want or even full squat the tax to yourself from nervous system is heavy. Okay, but the rewards are also great any time you're moving your body in the way through space [00:13:00] and the weight is in your.

[00:13:02] It brings it to another level insofar as taxing the central nervous system. It's hard to put a stick in the ground to say, you know, this is the training frequency. You need to follow I would say optimal frequency for most most people that have been in the game for a while. Is usually around every 7 to 10 days.

[00:13:25] It's important to note. However that depending upon how much you leaned what your form look like. And of course the section rep that you did the lower back takes up to a hundred hours to recover from strenuous sessions understand the lower back takes the longest of all of the muscle groups to recover.

[00:13:46] So it's a big deal in no event to fit some arbitrary schedule. Should you deadlift on one or two days rest? That's just dumb. It's just dumb now. You may be able to get [00:14:00] away with a frequency more so than once every 10 days if you alternate your heavy days. With later days, and if you're going to do that, I would suggest suggest that those light days you start calling those speed days, you know along the lines of the West Side principles where you take just fifty percent of your weight and you perform 10 to 12 sets of two reps with 30 to 45 seconds in between sets.

[00:14:30] You are moving the bar as fast as humanly possible on those. Program against a trap spreads look they need to make sense five sets of five Bill Stars classic or otherwise, it's great here three sets of triples as your conditioning yourself feel nervous system to maxing out and the loading pattern work that I prescribed are excellent applications because it takes a lot out of you.

[00:14:59] I would [00:15:00] suggest putting your upper body push and pull movements either on a separate day. Altogether or performing those lifts before you get to the trap bar. If you're working on a full body template to do it after the Trap our work if you're working as hard as you should be it's going to take something away from your strength.

[00:15:20] So here's the bottom line the trap bar. It stimulates more muscle growth than virtually any other movement and in large part, that's because it's a hybrid. Of the squat and the deadlift stick with it properly regulate your frequency and practice Progressive overload and every single muscle in your body will be stimulated to grow not just your traps.

[00:15:47] You got a nice pair of those though at all that trap our hard work and you know, where did the name trap bar? Lift come what did the trap bar actually come from? Was it really originally just to train traps. I can't believe that [00:16:00] well, I'll know for certain soon because of gentleman by the name of Al Gerard in the mid 80s came up with the truck parts really and I have ordered his books and courses.

[00:16:12] So in short order will know where everything that we need to know because do you really need a bar just to train your traps at one point in time. It sounds kind of silly to me, you know. You know what? It's very versatile to I mean consider this you can do standing overhead presses, right? I use them for Farmers walks their great you load the bar up you get in the middle of it.

[00:16:33] You should lift it and you go walk. There you go. Look if you got a home gym set. By the trip bar and a chin dip station. Congratulations. You've got everything you need to building that's you want to go to muscle. That's funny. Randy Hill says whatever happened to the program you recommended. I think it was called Power building you spoke really highly of it and it sounded perfect for what I was hoping to achieve.

[00:16:57] Alright, so several in this [00:17:00] is going to be a long sad story. And unfortunately, it has an unhappy ending at least as it stands today. So the year was 1995 1996 and muscle media without question was the you know, the magazine people would wait in lines before it was Stockton balls. Okay, and things were happening.

[00:17:26] You were drugged lifter, you got to read about steroids. You know how they really work. That was kind of the First Time magazine's discussed it or if you are natural things like ephedrine open it orange creatine and other supplements that actually worked were seemingly occurring month. It was in the pages of that muscle media though that I read something that made sense to me a lot of sense.

[00:17:55] It was an ad for pay for something called Power [00:18:00] building which went on to say. Work because it took into consideration the individual recovery times of various muscle groups. We talked about the lower back taking up to a hundred hours, you know biceps obviously smaller muscle take a lot less. What here's how it worked back then you call them up and they sent you one rep max eat with a list of exercises and you feel bad out and you snail mail it back to them and in return couple weeks later.

[00:18:36] You got a blue binder in the mail again snail mail complete with not only every weight to lift for every rep and every set. But right down the how long to rest between sets it was phenomenal and it worked better than anything that I had used before and it works better than 90% of the [00:19:00] stuff out there today, you know, even the interim program when you were done with your head east heavy stuff.

[00:19:07] You saw an explosive growth? I mean and what I say explosive. I really mean it, you know, you were growing you were getting stronger going to the gym with this was a really happy exercise part of the fun. subsequently. It completely disappear there. It was no not in muscle media anymore. It wasn't discussed anywhere.

[00:19:33] There was no internet. So, you know, you couldn't look for it that way either fast forward to I think just a few years ago. The person that created this let's call and Brad Jeffries. I encouraged him to bring it back. In fact Carl. I think we did at least one show right I had him on I had them on I had them on the show [00:20:00] and it's Sean Phillips Shaun Phillips, and I'm going to I want to use his name because anybody who's listening to my show is going to act like will call.

[00:20:07] Why are you not using his name it Sean Phillips, and I had them on the show numerous. Over the years he was even a briefly a sponsor with his protein drink and we came on and we talked about and you and you really prompted me to have on the show about power building but it did. Yeah and so, you know, he was he said he was going to come on the show because he was going to relaunch it.

[00:20:32] He had a program, you know computerized program where he would be able to do programs for people. And we promoted it on the show and people signed up and gave him money and then he wasn't responding to their emails and he wasn't sending their programs and I even I messaged him a couple times and says dude, you know, I'm getting emails from people and that they paying you and you're not you're not fulfilling in and he just.

[00:20:57] Stop responding to my emails and then quite [00:21:00] frankly during the 2016 election. He unfriended me and sent me a really horrible message because I was like a conservative, you know, like what they called me names and sent me horrible message and then and and never and never contacted me again after that.

[00:21:13] He let politics get between us. But yeah, he failed to give people what he promised to give them. Yes. Yeah. It's it's really unfortunate because. It's all right, so it's so the issue here. Is that because political views became so Central to his life that they came to Define him and everything that he was Associated himself with so if you didn't see eye-to-eye with.

[00:21:43] Then you don't exist. Well, no, if you didn't see eye-to-eye with him you were wrong. There was no room for him to ever be wrong. You know, the weird thing is I have I've sent him two or three Facebook messages. I post twice on his Facebook page and he's clearly seen [00:22:00] them because he's been posting on his face and he completely.

[00:22:04] And another like a third Facebook message that said look if we have issues we can discuss those but strength training and politics should not mix. You know what I mean? It's like it shouldn't get in the way don't look anything in politics. Unless you are a politician. We were all just working class people out here trying to get to live our lives and we all have different.

[00:22:33] Opinions about a lot of things some people are keto some people are vegan. I don't hate people because of their diet. I don't hate people because of their political affiliations, but there's a new era in this country where if you don't think like I do politically then you are a horrible person.

[00:22:52] Nobody is a horrible person. Nobody nothing especially not because of their political ideas. Yeah, so. [00:23:00] So I'm going to wrap this up by saying two things. Number one. I am sincerely apologizing to anyone that bought the program and didn't get it based upon by recommendation. I now know and understand that the people behind it are just as important as how good the program is.

[00:23:22] Secondly the world will go on without power building, you know book. What Sean has become is really a cautionary tale and what happens when your political views become so divisive you only associate yourself with like individuals. So, where are you fall on the left or the right? If your unfriending people and not ignoring them and not talking to them just based on that.

[00:23:53] You got a lot bigger problems and not cutting it and the gym. So I want to mention one other thing the [00:24:00] name power building actually is used by Mike O'Hearn for his style of training. So if you really want to try something that's called Power building that appears to have some efficacy. I would reach out to Michael Hearn and train the way he does because the guy the guy is an animal and he and his program his style of training is called Power building and I don't know how that is affected by what was.

[00:24:26] You know muscle media mm back in the day or Shaun Phillips, but there is a power building program that works and you can get on it and work with Michael Kern. That's a nice way to wrap it up right instead of just saying power building don't do it. There is another Power building and we would encourage you to look into it.

[00:24:46] Yeah, Scott Cavallo Scotty Cavallo says, I'm happy with the muscle size that I have. Just trying to lose more fat. What kind of diet is best for that? Is it true eating more frequently stimulates the metabolism? [00:25:00] Okay. I'll try to make this quick. I would say of all the diet's at your disposal and they are legion.

[00:25:09] I would have to say intermittent fasting is probably the best tool for the job for a number of reasons. One it's pretty much the only diet that guarantees fat burning hormones are mobilized for the 16 hours. You're fasting. Okay, so not only will adrenaline and chemical means be high those types of things would be high, but the common denominator in all fat loss diets is keeping insulin low.

[00:25:42] How much lower is it going to get when you're eating nothing over 16 hours, right? So that's a biggie intermittent fasting is also the only diet that gives you a wide open blood-brain barrier. This is significant [00:26:00] because things like stimulants hit harder you probably remember this from college or High School you could drink and it harder on an empty stomach, but just as importantly other.

[00:26:14] Looks can now make it across the blood-brain barrier without getting tripped up things like Gaba gamma-aminobutyric acid glutamine to asine tryptophan. Okay. So all of these things that are problematic. And any other type of Buy It Now become possibilities that you can benefit from the intermittent fasting to my knowledge intermittent fasting is also the only diet.

[00:26:49] That up regulates your body's ability to use protein. II was shocked when I switch the intermittent fasting I was able [00:27:00] to hold the amount of muscle tissue that I had and strength on a hundred grams of protein today where I was eating 200 before. A couple of other advantages it is by far the simplest Diet Sprite very very minimal right preparing food eating it and then cleaning up afterwards.

[00:27:22] No ringing Tupperware with you wherever you go and it's also one of the cheaper diets and so far as the cost of food. I have known individuals that switched from a quote-unquote regular diet to intermittent fasting and there were able to. Cooperate more organic fruits and vegetables why you're only eating once a day maybe twice?

[00:27:48] So that would be my two CC's on that. I would look to intermittent fasting to drop fat and possibly build some muscle. And remember this one thing this [00:28:00] one thing no matter what diet you're on no matter what diet you're on if you're on. And you're resting energy requirements plus your active energy requirements are 3,000 calories a day and you're eating 5000 calories of nothing, but fat you're not going to lose weight this illusion that.

[00:28:23] Somehow the body goes. Oh, he can eat 10,000 calories of fat. We're still going to lose fat. No, it doesn't work. That way know what your metabolic rate is know what contribution to energy requirements that your activity plays a role in and do the math. And if your daily requirement to stay 230 pounds is 3,000 calories a day and you want to gain muscle start out by eating 30 200 calories.

[00:28:52] And slowly inch up or if you want to lose fat start eating under 3,000 calories a day by three or four hundred [00:29:00] calories a day and you'll start to lose body fat. It doesn't matter folks though. The reason intermittent fasting works. Now we know from all the research out. There is people end up eating less.

[00:29:12] Yeah. I mean, it's just it's just crazy, you know pay attention to what your body needs and don't give it much more than that and you will stay the same weight give it less than that. You will lose weight. Give it more than that and you will gain weight and if your training right and sleeping, right that will be more muscle than anything else.

[00:29:31] We're going to take a quick commercial break. We've got a question from Jim Anderson when we come back you're listening to the blue pen pal our stay tuned.

[00:29:40] Welcome back. Could the blueprint Power Hour brought to you by coach Rodriguez.com. Check it out. Jim Anderson says, where do you come down these days on supplements for younger lifters? I have a 15 year old son and wanted to start him off on the right foot. Well the right answer. [00:30:00] To be totally honest is none.

[00:30:04] Although you know in today's world of the internet and you know in yesterday's world of magazines in practice that almost never occurs. I still to this day have 17 year olds coming up to me and my gym then. Hey, I just joined. How much creatine should I be taking? You know, and so you can tell me all day long.

[00:30:30] No supplements, but we're going to go out and use them. The right answer besides none is make sure they've got a blender and at least two thermoses along with plenty of whole food ingredients, you know, they can think about that as a supplement if they want to creatine is the absolute last thing I would recommend why why would you play your Ace card so early in the game?

[00:30:58] I mean, [00:31:00] let's think about this preteen is the single best legal ingredient to put on. Anywhere between 3 and 10 pounds of muscle mass. Let's call it personally when I work with people, especially young people. I tell them they can't even think about touching creatine before building 20 pounds of muscle and if they still give me problems I point out the obvious like creatine volumizes muscle tissue creatine can't volumize much if there's not much muscle tissue there so, you know, hopefully in the course of that conversation they start to get it.

[00:31:44] If I were to recommend one and they're going to want to use something it would be intra workout essential amino acids, because once they understand the value of essential amino acids and the learn pretty [00:32:00] quick, it'll only take a few workouts. They can then begin to appreciate the effects that high-quality protein and the timing of such with exercise the.

[00:32:12] Understand why that's important. And remember supplements can only act as drugs in one Arena intro workout. That's the only time they can do so they will they will also understand the role that aminos can play in recovery and Recovery is a very very important thing for them to get as you sit down and explain the fundamentals stimulate recover.

[00:32:42] Well, they want to go from step one to step three. You can't it is impossible. It is violating a fundamental biological law meaning you must recover fully from that training session just to [00:33:00] get back to Baseline. And then the super compensation process can occur. Okay again, if they really they're hell-bent on using creatine.

[00:33:14] impress upon them the fact that if they use it now, they're never going to get that effect again, and it isn't going to be that much anyway, because. Christine volumizes muscle cells pulls water and other things into it if there aren't many muscle cells there. It's not going to work. It's really really tough.

[00:33:34] Right because put yourself in the kids position their online pretty much all day. At least my son is and if their interest start to turn to the weight room, they're going to want to quote unquote take something. And it's hard not to blame them because look in the real world in any gym with that name people are taking [00:34:00] everything I can legally and and otherwise to get bigger and stronger the kids want an edge the problem.

[00:34:10] And then the wing where the edge lies and in fact, you can walk into a GMT and find hundreds of products. You can find right thousands online. The Stark reality is there are only three or four that are actually going to contribute to toward meaningful progress. What are the odds that kid is going to find three or four instead?

[00:34:38] He's going to do what happened to me and happen to most people listening. You have a piss away. God knows how much money learning the hard way. Most of this stuff doesn't work emphasize training emphasize the fundamentals. And address supplements only in the context of intra [00:35:00] workout nutrition.

[00:35:01] That's how I would approach. I have to agree with you and again, you know, you've said it for years the most anabolic. Of anything is food. And that's what I see kids. Don't do enough. They don't eat enough. They just don't write a kid at my gym. He's a nice kid. He wants to be a personal trainer.

[00:35:21] His name is Max. He's come up to me over the past few years and talk to me about lifting. And one day I said to him because he's very he's very wiry, you know, he doesn't have the he's not a Whatsit and then don't what what what what people had a naturally muscular there and no more for mesomorphs.

[00:35:41] Which one is it? Mezzo? That's really what naturally. Yeah. Mesomorph. So he's not a mesomorph, right? He's clearly a hardgainer. Right but I found over the years the hardgainers really a hard game is because they just don't eat enough, right? And you know, I've talked to him. I remember probably about a year ago.

[00:35:58] I grab them. I said max how [00:36:00] much protein do you eat? He just looked at me he you know, and I said, you know I said if you're not eating at least 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight, you're just not going to put muscle on. Right and he goes, well, you know, he started giving me some excuses why he can't eat I said, you know, you can always drink your calories as you can make a protein drink three or four times a day if that's all you can do.

[00:36:21] That's all you can do. But you know, I find that what kids don't do enough of is eat enough. They just don't and and when they do say they eating enough when you look at what they're eating they're eating predominantly. Yeah, so, you know, if you're 15 years old and you want to grow from from the ages of 15 to 19, you could probably easily easily easily put on 15 pounds a year, which is a lot of weight.

[00:36:50] Yep of muscle by just you know, look the hard part of this game is the eating it's not the lifting or the [00:37:00] supplement. It's not the supplements. It's not that it's not the the. Takes an hour an hour and a half to two to make the signals happen, but then you have to eat every two and a half to three hours.

[00:37:11] You have to eat every two and a half to three hours. You have to hit your protein. You have to get your calories in and that's people do it for two or three days and then they're like, oh man work. Yeah. This is the eating is the work. That's it. When you see a 285-pound bodybuilder, you look at him any way eating like a bird?

[00:37:32] No, I. I doubt he didn't get that way by working out all day long. He got that way by training and then eating all day long and not missing a day not missing a meal not missing a day not missing a week not missing a month not missing a year. Hey, ma'am, that's the hard part the eating. Nobody gets that yet.

[00:37:53] Jim Anderson says, I'm sorry. Alex bander says, what do you think about glutamine if [00:38:00] the goal is growth hormone released to melt fat? Oh God, are there any training and diet programs where it's more beneficial than. There's well, it sounds like our other answers of the same. But just to put this in context glutamine was introduced not long after creatine and it certainly looked like it was going to be the next Superstar everything suggested it given right anytime anyone mentions glutamine, especially in an article.

[00:38:34] It's they always say it's the most abundant Amino. Muscle and and you know that work that's true. It is thought to be conditionally essential nobody to my satisfaction is ever come out and listed those conditions though. It was thought to be an integral part of the original metrics formula. I don't know [00:39:00] if you remember when it came into canisters Basin plus.

[00:39:03] Yep. And so there was a lot of speculation around the fact that dr. Connolly had seen glutamine being used in burn burn and other patients and it was making a difference and therefore Incorporated it into metrics. So if we get it stand alone in boat loaded death if the other do something, right.

[00:39:25] No, unfortunately that isn't the case even at met and and this again I did this and had to learn the hard way even at Mega dose levels and also find that is anywhere between 30 and 50 grams a day. There was no effect whatsoever on size strength fat loss, etc. Etc. And the reason for that one of the big reasons is the vast majority of.

[00:39:54] Is eaten up by your stomach lining? So very little of it gets to the [00:40:00] muscles. I question even if it did get to the muscles, you know, the benefit that it would impart what this means is that so while it while it doesn't cut it as a performance enhancer, it can be very helpful to people with stomach.

[00:40:19] So those are folks with the like leaky gut close Crohn's disease, etc. Etc. I've seen those folks respond exceptionally. Well the glutamine it's made their lives a lot better. Typically they take five grams. About 30 minutes before a meal some take it with the meal. But now with respect to growth hormone.

[00:40:44] There's some scant research showing a couple grams of glutamine under the tongue raised growth hormone. Four hundred percent it sounds like a lot but it really isn't there a couple problems one. I never [00:41:00] saw that same study replicated again. So, you know, whether it can be replicated or not. I don't know 400 percent sounds like a big figure but listen like most amino acids.

[00:41:12] The G8 release is transient. Okay, and as such unlikely. To result in any sort of fat-burning effect. If you're going to use an amino acid for that, I would use Gaba gamma-aminobutyric acid 3 grams before the workout resulted in four hundred and eighty percent greater biologically active GH and that was in 20 something year olds again, it's transient.

[00:41:43] Some people look at it so you can only help maybe so the fact of the matter is this growth hormone, like testosterone needs to be, you know, elevated around the clock and even in the case [00:42:00] of the genuine article with growth hormone results are slow in coming, right it takes many months depending upon how much you use.

[00:42:08] If you have natural trainee, I would tell you the most potent way to raise natural growth hormone levels is to work in a lactic acid tolerance training type type of workout protocol. Meaning you're stacking five or six big compound lifts on top of each other and those can be body weight ones as well.

[00:42:33] Then you're running through those no rest between exercises. Rest one minute repeat it for another round. The ideal is to build up to five rounds. If you can do that with those money exercisers. Not only will you be in great shape. I have seen people in the absence of any cardio whatsoever lose a ton of body fat if they can do that workout [00:43:00] anywhere between two and four times a week.

[00:43:03] The legal side of things if you want to elevate growth hormone, CJ CJ C 1295 with or without back GH R P2, I think to to and what for available we want to raise growth hormone. The the best most effective way to do it is to take g h RP 6 at a hundred micrograms for men and 50 micrograms for women combined with growth releasing Factor 1 through 20.

[00:43:31] And a hundred micrograms for men 50 micrograms for women in combination first thing in the morning at a couple times throughout the day and you will have the growth hormone levels of a 20 year old and that and and look this works. I wouldn't use CJC 1295 because that raises the trough the Baseline production of growth hormone Around the Clock.

[00:43:57] And and and you need it to [00:44:00] pulse if you are going to use GH of you are going to use CJC 1295 no you still no no use it with with the drug Affinity complex so that it's it has a seven day half life, but you still have to use ghr P6 and modified growth factor 1 to 29 several times a day to create the peak season.

[00:44:22] CJ C 1295 just elevates the Baseline production. So you have a baseline production. Let's say there's a scale of one to ten. Let's say Baseline is to all day long you're producing that number two, but then every three hours for men and every one and a half hours for women, your pituitary pulses a big dose of growth hormone, and that may take that 2 and bring it up to a nine and you need that Paul.

[00:44:53] The body looks for that post is a reason that we've evolved this way. So just taking CJC [00:45:00] 1295 is just going to raise the Baseline. It's not going to increase the pulse. And in fact, the pulse is going to look like it has less amplitude because now the Baseline is moved up. So you still need to use the GH rp6 and in fact if you want to use.

[00:45:13] CJ C 1295 use it but you must still use multiple times a day gah, RP 6 modified growth factor 1 to 29 to create the pulse, or you're not going to see any real fat loss. You just not. Yeah, and and look, you know, it's legal or at least exactly exactly I was just I was just out of TaylorMade Pharmacy yesterday.

[00:45:38] They are they are the only Pharmacy in America today making that peptides in house. I saw their lab. It is amazing. One of the labs alone is a 12 million-dollar lab with amino acid sequences that produce up to a kilogram of a peptide at one time. And [00:46:00] so we were talking about this yesterday and I said, you know, I'm so frustrated with the commercials for Sarah vital where they trying to convince women that grow tall man will make you skinny.

[00:46:08] Make your hair better make your skin better and Sarah vital is crap. It's it oh, it'll raise growth hormone levels up to a hundred and fifty percent. Well, if you have zero growth hormone already a hundred fifty times 0 is still 0 it's meaningless. But if you really want to raise growth hormone, you can do it today through your doctor.

[00:46:28] By getting your doctor to write you a prescription for ghr P6 or impairment and per melon and modified growth factor 1 to 29 and you just have to get over the fear of injecting it and you can have really really really high growth hormone level again at 50 and 60 and look there's subcu injection.

[00:46:48] So yeah, I mean it's so it doesn't even hurt. I mean it does you don't feel anything but this is the first time ever in the mm, you know. It's an America that you have to [00:47:00] you can stop buying bunk supplements that really don't work or turning to the black market for questionable stuff and get real legit peptides that will raise growth hormone levels first time ever take advantage of it.

[00:47:16] Hey, ma'am, man. It's it frustrates me. When I see that Sarah vital commercial ladies. You just not sleeping. Well can't lose weight anymore. Well, Sarah vital raise your growth hormone levels by a whopping 200 percent. Yeah meaningless. The depth of the transdermal homeo know that stuff doesn't even work that stuff is supposed to have transdermal growth hormone in it.

[00:47:39] That doesn't even work that does nothing. That is just you may as well just here's my address 2908 Brownsboro Road Suite 103, Louisville, Kentucky four zero two zero six just send me your money and I'll tell you your growth hormone is is higher now because that's pretty much what you're. They're the growth hormone.

[00:47:57] The the growth of one peptide [00:48:00] is 46,000 Dalton, right and you can't get anything together. Yeah, I mean, I mean look if I put a piece of bread on your skin will your body absorb it and will you feel the nutrient value of that bread as opposed to eating it know why because the breads not going through your skin and neither is the transdermal growth hormone if there is any growth hormone really in it.

[00:48:21] That's a whole other story. I mean, come on. Give me a break. I mean these people is how stupid do you think do you think that if delivering growth hormone transdermally actually worked that some MLM some obscure multi-level marketing company would be allowed to do it and the pharmaceutical industry is still making injectable growth hormone.

[00:48:48] Really are you that stupid? You think I just had a guy message? He said hey my company I get my HRT from they're introducing a [00:49:00] od9 604. We used to call it fragment 171 through one 176 to 191. It's the LIE political portion of the peptide of growth hormone and in rodents, it showed fat loss, but it's never worked in humans, but here's the best part.

[00:49:17] So he say, oh, my my HRT Clinic is telling me to get this and it's going to make me. Fact I said it's bullshit. It's been around forever. It doesn't work in humans. It seems to work in rodents for sure. But here's the best part with the Obesity epidemic being what it is today. If a od9 604 Fragment 176 to 191 really worked really work given that they we have an epidemic of obesity today and get this it's orally bioavailable.

[00:49:50] So you could put it in a capsule. You don't have to inject it. Do you really think the pharmaceutical industry would have just Hoops we missed that one, [00:50:00] right? Funny stuff it is funny stuff. And you know what happens so fragment 176 to 191 came in Vogue and out of Vogue like all at the same time in a couple year period probably about I want to say around 2005 through 2008 2007.

[00:50:20] Everybody was talking about it. There were people out there injecting it six and seven. So what they do is the people sell to all you got injected six times a day to get it to work. They know people. Going to do that so when it doesn't work, they're gonna blame it on you and then people went this stuff doesn't work.

[00:50:37] I'd rather just take real growth hormone could real growth home and works and keep in mind the way a od9 604 is purported to work is by sensitizing the beta adrenergic receptors. What else does that clenbuterol? What's the stuff you like the mahwang? You [00:51:00] know, yeah. Draw, I mean come on these things actually work you could feel them working.

[00:51:04] So so it's like it's I'm just it's amazing how because we're so forgetful that you know, every seven eight nine years. They bring something back again. Oh, yeah, and now let's sell it a bunch of and people go doesn't work and then it'll disappear for seven or eight or nine years. Well, that's that's the story and what were you shocked by glutamine glutamine glutamine is great.

[00:51:26] If you have gut problems, it's really good. If you have got problems, there's no doubt about it. But if you're eating a high-protein diet, trust me, you are not in short supply of glutamine though. Not at all. It's the primary amino acid present in all tissue. The body is really good at putting glutamine into the body.

[00:51:46] And take and the only time I would take glutamine powder is is again if I had gut problems that's it. Yeah, my wife. She has long had got problems and she's going to be given that a go. So [00:52:00] we'll find out shortly if it works for her. We're going to take a quick commercial break when we come back.

[00:52:05] We have a question from Al Reves. He listens to the show from the UK and we will start off with that one. Stay tuned. You're listening to the blueprint power. Welcome back. So this question comes to us from Al Reves who is in his 40s and and I'm jealous of this guy's physique.

[00:52:29] I think he's listening live. Maybe let's say anyway, I think he may be listening live anyway, so. He sent the question. Actually, I think he said that to you as well Rob, but I'm going to go ahead and pull it from my Facebook Messenger. He said I just got projected Rex. I've been Kettle for three years, but last six months following dr.

[00:52:49] Mal di Pasquale anabolic diet and refeeding on the weekends, which basically is the keto diet with a refeed. I'm having great success. I'm also using his testosterone booster and GH booster right [00:53:00] now. I'm thinking of stopping the test booster for a month and using progenitor directs instead. Do you think this is okay to use on this type of a high-fat diet with a weekend Reef?

[00:53:16] Well, you know, it's a very interesting question and there are some things I'm not clear on. Like for example you see dieting. Is he dieting lose fat if he has how long has he been doing that if the answer to that is yes. Then for Jenna directs would probably not be the optimal product for that recall.

[00:53:39] It makes you because it makes you want to eat more right one of the things in a cyclist pyrethrin does is it pretty dramatically up to your appetite and you know, the best part of that is for whatever reason we don't know. Could be insulin sensitivity could [00:54:00] be insulin mimetic. We don't know but we do know for some reason carbohydrates you can eat an inordinate amount of them that are stored in muscle as opposed to around your waist and I would send you to the 30 reviews over a predator nutrition.com so you can read that for yourself, but it's a long way of saying progenitor X is probably not.

[00:54:27] Deal for the anabolic diet and definitely not for a fat loss phase on the other hand if you've been diving Kido, which I think he said for three years. Most people right do that just to lose fat. He subsequently switched over to the anabolic diet. It sounds like he enjoys the Carberry feeds. I would ask that.

[00:54:50] He stay on dr. Depasquale supplements for at least a couple of months. To ascertain how effective those are and if [00:55:00] at that point he wants to switch to the anabolic diet bulking. There's a possibility for Jenna directs is going to work there. I say a possibility because in all honesty. I have no data on how progenitor ex works on the anabolic diet.

[00:55:18] However, knowing its mode of action and ingredients I can speculate one possibility. Might be just to load progenitors rex on the weekends. It would seem to be ideal for that because we're going to you're going to do a refeed you might as well eat like an animal right and and and and the carbs are also coming back right flooding in.

[00:55:41] Progenitor X also includes a very soluble form of creatine creatine hydrochloride. It also includes the are isomer of alpha lipoic acid, which will assist and slim emetic like that bam get to get those get that glucose into the I mean get that glycogen stored, right exactly and [00:56:00] and also a small amount of disodium phosphate, which we know is more important to creatine entering the muscle cell than even insulin.

[00:56:10] So, To me it would be the ideal product for that weekend refeed since there's no down at though I will volunteer because I have I have three quarters of a bottle approach headed Direction front of me. I will volunteer to conduct that experiment because I am on the end of the Pollak diet as well.

[00:56:32] So it's going to be very interesting. I don't know how I will define success on this diet other than. You know, typically when you're on proton address you see a pound a week. Seek the ideal on the anabolic diet is Big carb up weekend, that could be 5 or 10 pounds, right? And then as you get back on the ketogenic part your weight comes down progressively over the [00:57:00] week ideally on Friday.

[00:57:02] You would be 1/2 pound to a pound heavier than you were the prior week. So I will give it a go. I will report back to. One how it works. Certainly if nothing else. It's going to stretch a bottle of long ways as a serving is six caps a day, whether that's training or non training day and there are 180 capsules in there.

[00:57:25] So if you took progenitor X NG H RP 6, you would have to wear chain mail gloves while you're eating not to eat your own fingers, right? Yeah the effort I could you imagine like you just watch. You look the first time I experimented with GH rp6 was probably in about 2008. Yep, and I took a 250 micro gram shot of it a quarter of a milligram because I want to see what it was going to do.

[00:57:55] Right and I can vividly remember I was living in my apartment at the time was going through my divorce. [00:58:00] And within about 10 or 15 minutes, I started to feel hungry and I walked over to the refrigerator now open the refrigerator to see what I had to eat and I had eggs. I had raw milk. I had beef I had all this stuff, but I also had a big can of brewer's yeast.

[00:58:16] Not anybody who knows brewer's yeast doesn't taste great. It doesn't taste horrible. It kind of tastes like B vitamins, you know, that's what it really tastes like and I remember opening the can of brewer's yeast and grabbing a spoon and while I'm looking in the refrigerator, I'm Shoveling Bruges East into my mouth, but wait it gets better.

[00:58:38] So I'm eating the brewer's yeast like right out of the can and I'm looking in the refrigerator for. Into eat at the same time and all of a sudden it Dawns on me. I thought man if I added like molasses to this Bruges, this could make good candy. I take the bruises can out of the refrigerator. I get my raw honey.

[00:58:59] I'm [00:59:00] squirting the raw honey, right into the canister of Bruges cheese and eating it out. I ate a half canister of Bruges before I. Oh crap, this is the GH rp6 working on me. But beyond that brewer's yeast make some people to am hungry itself. Does it really I didn't even know that. Oh my God, that's when I realized like I don't take more than a hundred micrograms of GH rp6.

[00:59:26] Now. I every every morning I take 100 micrograms of GH rp6 and 100 micrograms of modified growth factor 1 through 29. I start my morning off with that my post-workout group of syringes includes grow. Come on, I don't use that process work out because I'm already hungry hungry proof post-workout.

[00:59:43] Yeah, but literally I take my shot because I'm not doing I'm not training fast that I have been training faster for the past few months. I take my shot. I go over to the cabin and I get my oatmeal out by the time my oatmeal is ready and my eggs are ready. I am freaking starving like I'm gonna I'm [01:00:00] gonna eat everything in front of me.

[01:00:02] So it g h RP 6 if you have someone in your family. That is not eating enough an elderly person and if you can convince them to use 100 microgram injection of ghr P6 20 minutes half hour before meal time. They will never miss a meal again. Never made, you know, why doctors aren't using GH rp6 with their elderly patients is beyond me Beyond me because it could change because you know, Frailty is the number one indicator of early mortality and elderly people become frail because they don't have an appetite.

[01:00:42] They don't eat enough protein. They don't eat enough in general, you know and manjeet rp6 could actually help those people live longer. I am convinced of that. I'm right there with you. I saw that in the nursing home or my grandparents were there. You're a lot of old people die from quote unquote old [01:01:00] age, but they're really talking about is malnutrition their bodies can no longer process and assimilate food and they don't have the appetite.

[01:01:08] And here's the interesting thing about you Char P6 anybody that I had this discussion with Patrick O'Connell to because Pat was having gut problems. So GH rp6 not only makes you hungry, but it makes your body process food faster. Because it because it creates it creates. Environment in your body of one that you haven't eaten in a long time and the body it becomes ravenous and the digestive tract the digestive motility.

[01:01:37] It just is ramped up. So if you're somebody who's like man I eat and then it food just sits in my stomach for hours and I just can't eat again. You take a hundred micrograms of GH rp6 before a meal not only will you eat the entire meal and probably some more but it will go through you faster. And you'll your stomach will be emptier a lot faster and you'll be ready to eat again [01:02:00] sooner.

[01:02:01] Certainly, help a lot of willful. That's what I'm saying. I like why are doctors ignoring that? This is a safe peptide. It's been around forever. Everybody uses it and and the six is better in the morning and the two is better in the evening. So six elicits a greater cortisol pulse. And two does not so theoretically you don't want cortisol to rise in the evening.

[01:02:23] So you would use GH rp6 during daytime hours and I would say before 4 p.m. But after 4 p.m. If you're going to use a secrete agog and you need g h RP as one of them the great because they're growing Agonist. You would use GH R P2 after 4 p.m. So you're not till you're just improving hunger you're improving.

[01:02:45] Growth hormone pulse but you are not increasing cortisol production late in the evening, right? The next question comes from Mike Gianelli. He says I understand that you work with Mike Mentor when he was [01:03:00] alive. That's the only way to work with them. Nobody worked with him when he was dead. Can you give me the cliff notes on high intensity training and whether or not you think it's a valid long-term strategy to build muscle.

[01:03:13] That's a good question. That's a good question. It's a really good question. For reference search the first person in this country to really push high intensity training was Arthur Jones, but as Jones age eventually passed away excuse. Mike was the guy that picked up the torch and he carried it and he ran really hard with it, especially in the early nineties because one of his trainees was current.

[01:03:48] Mr. Olympia Dorian Yates. And there was one Olympia. I can't remember which one where? He improved [01:04:00] so drastically from the year before it was it was absolutely you know shocking is the word and when asked why he said look everybody's using kind of the same stuff. I don't use you know nearly as much as some of these other guys the difference was my training.

[01:04:21] I've been working with what my mic men sir. So you can imagine how much business took off. But anyway, what is high intensity training in Mike's world? It was predicated on one set. To Absolute muscular failure one set that was a radical and still is considered a radical departure from most people's training today that one set for the most part was 6 to 10 rep range for the upper body and then slightly higher Reps for the lower body.

[01:04:57] It was let me say [01:05:00] this. It was a very high intensity training is a learned discipline. Which means you're not going to get it your first workout. You're not even going to get it your second workout. It takes a while to get out of the multiset training mode because what do you need to do to make it through multiple?

[01:05:20] You need to pace yourself. There's no pacing yourself with this type of training. So it takes many workouts to get it right. I would say for most people a couple of weeks once you are able to get it, right. Individuals that are not overtrained or were slightly overtrained make incredible short-term progress, especially strength.

[01:05:47] It is not unusual that these individuals make the best strength gains of their life. On this type of program predictably actual muscle growth legs, but [01:06:00] it is noticeably less with hit training given a certain amount of mechanical work in volume is necessary for muscle to grow and we now know what we did no way.

[01:06:14] Most studies show training a muscle two or even three times a week is optimal for growth. So on the one hand you were usually Blown Away by the amount of weight. You can lift versus last session, but you were left scratching your head when you know, the scale isn't moving much and you're not putting on you no more muscle at least at the pace that you are with

[01:06:44] strength. It becomes very difficult psychologically. Because you have to wait longer you have to increase rest periods between workouts in order to realize the strength increase. So the thinking goes like this [01:07:00] you're lifting heavier weights for more repetitions every workout logically the stresses upon your body grow and it is going to take longer to recover.

[01:07:11] And then recognizing increase at one point in my training. Mike had me resting two weeks between workouts. Okay. If you are a powerlifter, let's say that is Hell on your Technique because you know to maintain Proficiency in the classical list. You need to practice. Okay practice with the bar. My big problem with the system is this ultimately adrenal burnout and other issues are going to catch up with you I can tell you is that next workout approaches and you know, you have one shot for maybe the next two weeks or longer.

[01:07:58] It's a really [01:08:00] really tough row to hoe so to speak. But you know, I gotta I gotta inject you because II agree with you a thousand percent in fact, so I taken long periods of time off from training right eye and and I haven't trained legs and close to a year when you really look at it. I've lost five inches on my upper legs, by the way, they look.

[01:08:26] Know what my legs would have looked like had I never trained now. I'm coming to the conclusion that training to failure is a huge mistake for anybody and everybody and people going to weigh in it, but, you know bodybuilders and bum about no, no, no listen to me. So when we're training, there are two separate nervous systems in play the peripheral nervous system, which is Innovations into muscle and the central nervous system, which is basically your [01:09:00] brain when everybody loves all central nervous system stimulate they may as well just say brain stimulation because the central nervous system is the brain and everything else is peripheral nervous system write everything out from the.

[01:09:12] And so. it's clear to me now at this ripe age of 60 years old that when you train and feel like King Kong leaving the gym, you've stimulated the peripheral nervous system, but you have not depleted the central nervous system and training to failure is a function of the central nervous system. Not the peripheral nervous system.

[01:09:40] People can say no that can't know. Your muscles fail because the brain says I'm done not because they innervation into the muscles are completely fatigued and I can prove that a numerous a number of ways. So they have that magnetic Halo thing that they put on people's heads and and [01:10:00] it blocks the governor in the brain and you all of a sudden you went to failure, but then they put that thing they go try again and you got five more reps in you like I can't believe this.

[01:10:10] So we also know that. Numerous studies that show that fatigue begins in the brain not in the muscles. And so I really I am coming to the conclusion now and you know, I've done full-body workouts, but then I get then I keep adding movements. I keep adding weight I can and I end up pushing myself into central nervous system fatigue.

[01:10:31] I am convinced that you can make the greatest great gains in strength and and in hypertrophy. By not going into central nervous system fatigued by not training to failure. But by training to like maybe 80% you know flirting with that zone but stopping and and letting the governor if you're hitting the mark be when you leave the gym if [01:11:00] you feel light and spry and ready to conquer the world versus man.

[01:11:03] I just want to go sit in my car for a couple minutes. I'm. To this now. I really am and you know what? I agree wholeheartedly. In fact, one of the most one of the best pieces of advice I ever got was a seminar done by Bill Kazmaier. He said always leave a rapper to in the tank. I saw him by the way, he's gotten old but I saw him at the Arnold walking around.

[01:11:30] Oh, that's so cool. Well, in any case I'll wrap this up by saying heavy duty high intensity training can be productive. I would say for a duration of anywhere between 4 and 10 weeks on the outside, but it is almost always much more effective when you're coming off of a volume phase and then you get right the DraStic drop in [01:12:00] volume.

[01:12:00] It's those. Those are the benefits the drawbacks though are many we discussed adrenal failure. We discussed the central nervous system. But also the fact that you lose other strength qualities speed strength the ability to perform a one rep max the ability to generate higher and higher total tonnage numbers.

[01:12:24] So look, it's a way to overload the muscle. It is a golf club in your bag. You need a full set of clubs, though. Shoot your best friend. I want to give a shout out to Brandon H from Instagram because he's the guy who asked me the question about a od9 604 and when I pointed out to him that it was nothing more than fragment 176 to 191.

[01:12:46] He's like, oh that stuff didn't work back in the day. I was like, yeah, they just change the name to fool people into thinking it's something new and this and keep in mind that someone just messaged me texted [01:13:00] me. That listens to the show and said I have severe anxiety and my doctor wants to put me on ephemeral.

[01:13:09] Hold on a second. Let me see what she said. It was called. So she said my doctor wants to put me on seraphim. Because I have anxiety and I said hold on a second. Let me look and see what this is and I look and well and so then I texted her back I says, you know how when people get depressed. They put them on Prozac and then they commit suicide she goes.

[01:13:33] Yes. I would never take Prozac I said well, they named rename Prozac to Sarah. So the pharmaceutical industry does this to there like oh everybody's afraid of Prozac. We just need to change the name and look this is what everybody does a good friend of mine. Jeff runs a restaurant here in town the restaurant opened too soon.

[01:13:53] It's got terrible. Terrible. Terrible terrible reviews now, nobody wants to go there. So guess what they're doing. They're [01:14:00] just changing the name of the restaurant and they feel like they're just going to wipe away all of the bad publicity. That's right, and they will he said I will change some things and.

[01:14:08] But it'll be the same restaurant which is called something new. This is what this is what people do because we are way too myopic. All we care about is what's in front of us now, we don't forget something 10 years ago and go. Oh, that's the same thing. It didn't work 10 years ago. Why would I think it's going to work now, right.

[01:14:26] It's like what do they call high fructose corn syrup? Yeah, it's doubt stood several names glucose fructose sugar. They call it something some other fruit. Should they have three? Three or four different names now. That's why everybody thinks high fructose corn syrup has been taken out of the food supply.

[01:14:43] It hasn't it's still in there. They just call it different things and the FDA is allowing the corn refiners industry to fool people that the FDA is supposed to be produced protecting us from them not protecting them from [01:15:00] us. Well, I should rename ma Huang and reintroduce. It has yeah. No, you can't do that see but if you if you if you were a part of an industry that makes billions of dollars and you paid the FDA millions of dollars every single year.

[01:15:13] Yeah, you could do that, but you and I would go to jail for doing that if they said oh you just renamed it and you're selling my wang. We're putting you in jail. Yep. Sad State of Affairs. It is man, you know, and that's why when people like well, we got to change government You're Never Gonna Change coming.

[01:15:28] Like this since King Henry in England, you're not going to change government. What you have to change is your level of intelligence and awareness and and you must govern your own steps through this life because nobody is going to help you make the right decisions where to take a less commercial break when we come back.

[01:15:46] We have the blueprint tip of the day and quite frankly. It's a good one about dr. Mal. Di Pasquale anabolic diet. So this is going to also help Al Reves stay tuned. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the blueprint Power

[01:16:00] [01:16:02] Hour. so the blueprint tip of the day. Flipping the day so you can call you can call this the stood the test of Time series what which fit which fits perfectly into what we segwayed into the commercial break with that the things that don't stand the test of time they just rename them and sell them t on the different name.

[01:16:22] All right, right. But you know if my math is correct and it usually isn't but this is close enough. The anabolic diet is about 25 years. Old today and it debuted way back in 1995. If you remember the circumstances around that time very very exciting muscle media was you know, every issue was the Breakthrough of just about supplements that actually worked and Along Comes.

[01:16:57] Dr. Burrows anabolic [01:17:00] diet. I was 25 years old. I had my first apartment. So I moved out of my house first job and I can't I'll never forget I came home one day and both books are laying at my doorstep his anabolic diet. He also wrote A supplement review, which I'll go into some other time, but needless to say I had I had no money, but I had a burning desire.

[01:17:33] To learn more about how to manipulate my physiology and in one of his columns. Dr. Depasquale said something once it made a lot of sense to me. He said if you if you want to make a macro change to your physique and or your performance, you need to consider juggling macronutrients. So in other words, you know not majoring in the [01:18:00] minors and.

[01:18:02] Using micro nutrients like vitamins herbs, etc. Etc. Anyway, as soon as I got it, I tore through it and I made a determination that at my current 195 pounds. I needed to take up more space on this planet in a big way. So I set a goal of getting to 250 after reading the book and doing the calculations.

[01:18:31] It came about that. I needed to eat about 6,000 calories a day, which I think we can all agree. It is a lot. I had no money, but I went to the grocery store and finally figured out that my solution in large part would be a big old jug of vegetable oil because I'll never forget the first time you told this story all I could think about was cramping and.

[01:18:59] I'm in [01:19:00] the bathroom for hours. That's all you can think over every bathroom is because every day Monday through Friday Friday, I down two cups of vegetable oil mixed in 8 scoops of I approach chocolate whey protein and the little bit of shaved ice that gave me 48 hundred calories right there and the balance came from meat vegetables and summer.

[01:19:27] So needless to say it was an adjustment over the next several week in a nutshell. The diet can be can be thought of as follows Monday through Friday, very low carbohydrates 30 grams are under Saturday Sunday. You turn around do the big carb load now, there are a lot of nuances though. That's a good doctor goes into in his book and I would highly recommend getting it because you [01:20:00] will pick up a lot of tips about how to be more successful the diet the weekly pattern though for me was as follows every weekend.

[01:20:10] I put on anywhere between 5 and 10. Come Monday, when you go back on low carbs again over the course of the week your weight naturally decreases every Friday though. I was I would say a minimum if memory serves 1 pound heavier. And so here comes the weight and it seems to be pretty much on schedule and automatic every week.

[01:20:39] I make it up to to from 195 to 252 in a little more than a year. If you do the pound a week calculations, that's just about right gaining had become so easy. I actually. I remember saying to myself, you know, you could keep going and part of me [01:21:00] kicking myself that I didn't but look I got to my goal.

[01:21:04] Okay, not all of it was muscle but a lot of it was. it was to this day the most I've ever weighed. I have also used it to cut all the way down to 195 and believe it or not. I would tell you that is successful as I was in being able to put on weight dieting might be a better application of the anabolic diet for several reasons.

[01:21:32] The first is you're going to have a caloric limit like any other diet, but because the diet calls for more fat you are. Much Fuller much longer. Okay, so you're not starving like you are on many other diets. You're also going to be a lot stronger due to the weekend carb loads. Versus a straight keto diet, which was what most people do right when they're trying to lose [01:22:00] weight.

[01:22:01] Remember the suffix is hydrate for every gram of carb that goes out. Three grams of water goes with it and muscle is about 70 percent water. I'm no mathematician, but that adds up to the bad news, right? When you go to start lifting weights again, you will interesting lie, you will learn how to time your exercise with this diet and that's really crucially important because as an example after the weekend carb load is down.

[01:22:34] You wait, as I said up to 10 pounds more. You got a lot more leverage your barbell lifts are going to be a lot easier. So consequently Monday is going to be your heavy day for bench presses squats deadlifts. What have you conversely it's going to be murder for your body weight stuff, but as the week goes on.

[01:22:56] And ultimately you get the Thursday and Friday. That's where I put my [01:23:00] body weight stuff. Stuff. So the other thing is it can be tailored. To leverage the finer points in the in the strengths of other diets. So let me give you an example. I've been doing this forever Monday through Friday. I keep carbs low.

[01:23:18] But I practice intermittent fasting for all of the advantages that I cited in my earlier answer on the weekend. I'll switch back to carb loading and in some cases. I will eat, you know every 2 to 3 hours like the typical bodybuilder die. Well, I mentioned before about some interesting facts if you get the book and nuances, dr.

[01:23:45] Depasquale goes into one of those is interestingly enough on the anabolic diet. Your body makes its own hmb or beta hydroxy muscle butyrin. Now we can we can debate all day long about whether or [01:24:00] not that works or not. But you know, the fact is there is some anti catabolic. Action associated with it why pay for it if your body is going to make it right?

[01:24:13] You'll also learn and this is really important what your carb threshold is. How many grams a day and for how many days. Can you eat carbohydrates and not have it spill over into fat storage? You also learn right? Click which carbohydrates show on you, you know over a weekend. For example, you're going to learn that carbs from fruits and vegetables a hell of a lot different than carbs from Dunkin Donuts and crispy.

[01:24:46] And Breads and and other things that quote unquote show on you so it's an education and not just the diet, but how to match your training to the diet and threshold news [01:25:00] of certain nutrients carbs fats and proteins. I will wrap this up by telling you that the original anabolic diet is well worth your money, dr.

[01:25:12] Depasquale. Is the real deal in addition to being a legitimate medical doctor he holds multiple World Records in multiple weight classes in powerlifting. In fact, most of those were set during the 1970s and 80s when he was using a version of the anabolic diet. He also makes two other books. Leave their title the anabolic diet for bodybuilders in the anabolic diet for powerlifters.

[01:25:41] I would encourage you to you to purchase those also long story short. If you haven't tried it. This is one of the best diets that you can use because even if you determine hey, you know, this isn't this really doesn't work for me. You will be able to walk away [01:26:00] guaranteed with two or three things that do.

[01:26:03] So I don't know car with your experience has been with it. I know dr. Depasquale has been on before he was my first guest ever. He would show number one. It was him. We talked about the anabolic diet. Yeah, exactly. So I think he's still out there doing this thing. I don't know what's going on with him.

[01:26:23] He stopped responding to emails. I spoke to Randy wrote a couple months ago. He said he hasn't heard from our oh, you know his wife Bonnie. I was diagnosed with breast cancer about five or six years ago. And I believe she was in remission and he was working on some really exciting work and he was on the show.

[01:26:42] Last time I was on the show is probably 2016 7 maybe 2017. Yep. He was working on a thesis a paper to discuss the effects of the Antebellum. You [01:27:00] know everybody. About the microbiome and they talked about the genetic effects on the body. And he believed like I do that the acquisition and maintenance of muscle plays a role in longevity and health.

[01:27:16] Ryan he was working on this this idea and gathering information and extrapolating and writing about it and then all of a sudden he just stopped replying. I don't know. I know his website is still up so I know he's still selling stuff. Yeah. I mean I hope he's okay at the end of the day. He is one of the great lines that is contributed to something of actual value in drug-free lifting.

[01:27:44] You don't you can legitimately turn to a kid and tell him look there's a diet that's going to help you get the most out of your testosterone growth hormone and Insulin it's not going to make you blow up like d Boston in the mall and [01:28:00] a neutral but. That kids going to learn a lot a real lot. And I just wish we had more mine's like him sadly.

[01:28:08] There just aren't many of these days. No, it's very sad. And you know, he helped he worked very very closely with the doctor squat with Fred Hatfield. Yeah, very close. They weren't they were the guys who were called by McMahon to come into the WWE. WWF whatever it was called at that time. Because they wanted these guys off of drugs.

[01:28:36] They use they use the anabolic diet and dr. Hatfield started training them and the anabolic steroids were being taken out of wrestling. Yeah doctor. Dr. D. If I'm not mistaken actually set up their drug testing policy. Yep, help them with the diet. And if memory serves he was also working with Leo Kahn stove OTS at the [01:29:00] time could have been I didn't know about that.

[01:29:01] That doesn't sound far-fetched. Well, I'm almost certain of it because I remember in the anabolic diet when it came time to discuss training. He referred his readers to Leo and beyond belief, right? Yep. Yeah. It was it was an amazing time. It was an exciting time and I only wish we just had a little of that back and you know you go on any.

[01:29:31] Today you want bodybuilding anabolic lines whatever.com does nothing new out there. I mean there really isn't. No it's all going around breaking has been done. Now. It's a matter of just execution. That's it execution eat every day. Like you're supposed to eat train everything like supposed to train sleep everyday like supposed to sleep.

[01:29:54] You know, that's it. It's all about execution. Now, we've unraveled pretty much. Now, yeah, yeah you hit [01:30:00] the nail on the head the informations out there. I recommend you get it and more importantly use it and hey if you have success, or even if you don't write me or call me or text me, I'd love to hear about it.

[01:30:12] Hi brother great show today. Thank you and we'll see everybody tomorrow with more superhuman radio. Thank you for listening today. And don't forget. We're looking for a sales person here. So if you have sales experience email me at on are at superhuman radio dotnet. See [01:31:00] you

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