Coach Rob Regish

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

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Show Notes:

[2:40] Carl is making progress with his foot. It is now in a shoe!

[3:12] Rob discusses his opinion on Louie Simmons and Westside Barbell.

• Nobody has given more back to powerlifting.
• Louie injured his back after setting world records. He was told that he would never walk again by doctors.
• Louie invented the reverse-hyperextension machine and rehabbed his back with it.
• After doing this, Louie went on to set more world records in powerlifting.
• Westside is the strongest gym in the world.
• Louie broke up the traditional linear periodization with the conjugate method that he developed.
• This approach combines heavy days with dynamic speed days for lifts.
• Louie could have kept all of this to himself, but he decided to share it with the world.
• The intensity and atmosphere are largely responsible for the results produced by Westside.

[13:15] Steroid accusations against Rob- Rob tells his history with steroids.

• Age 25: 6,000kcals per day on the anabolic diet (natural)
• 1999- age 29- 4-androstendiol topical- this was Rob’s first steroid. He put on 6 lbs. using it, bringing his bodyweight up to 231.
• 2 years later- Pat Arnold’s 1-AD- added 10 more lbs., bringing his bodyweight up to 241.
• He was a better lifter for using these, but had already bulked up to higher levels naturally in the past.
• Methyl-1-test- Very powerful (1 lb/day for 2 weeks)- made Rob feel terrible, and he lost all of the weight he gained on it after stopping his usage. It also hammered his bloodwork, specifically his HDL levels.
• Today- Rob uses HRT only with a couple of peptides or sarms here or there.
• Carl: Androgens work by stimulating muscle tonus and mediating electrolytes.

[29:18]- What were wrestlers like Hulk Hogan taking back in the day?

-Hogan- Deca-Durabolin, Dbol, and test.- He allegedly took these for 13 years with no break.

- Tony Atlas- Dbol only. Atlas pyramided doses of dbol from 5 mg to 25 mg and then back down.

-These guys took steroids for recovery and cosmetic effects. There was no off season for them, they had to perform 300+days/ year.

[38:09] Building a supplement stack around ecdy.

• You need realecdy.
• Cyanotis Vaga is a poor source.
• Suma root is better.
• Rhaponticum is the best source.
• The blueprint mass stack: Synthagen, Kre-anabolyn, Adaptogen-n, and a preworkout may be discounted in the near future.

[46:41] How to deal with an ammonia smell when you sweat.

• Your protein intake is too high, and your fats or carbs are too low.
• Citrulline and glutamine are good ammonia scavengers in the body. They can help.

[53:15] Help for doing muscle ups and 1-arm calisthenics.

• Convict Conditioning by Paul Wade-details how to regress these exercises to get traction with the movements and make progress.
• Avoid creatine- the extra water weight will hinder your performance.
• Use Beta-alanine, L-Tyrosine (3g), Alpha-GPC (300-600mg), DMAE, Ginko, B-6, and phosphatidyl choline along with a bit of caffeine and ephedrine pre workout.
• Be under 200 lbs.

[59:16] Blueprint tip of the day: Rob discusses getting young people started in the right direction and avoiding the “it’s due to the steroids mindset” 

• Instill hard work ethic into young people instead of letting them say someone is better than them due to the steoids.

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Show Transcript

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[00:00:00] Hey, hey, welcome back to another episode of superhuman radio. It's Tuesday and many of you show up here for the blueprint Power Hour with Coach Rodriguez, which is going to begin in just a second. Don't forget you can post your questions during the Facebook live. You can post your questions in the Facebook live thread and we will work them into the show and give you a shout out.

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[00:01:23] Hey don't coach. I don't know why your picture isn't moving to the I am. I'm doing great. Thank you for asking. I want to give a shout out quick. Shout out to Seth spanner. Just an incredibly strong good-natured guy when I say good-natured. He actually buys maspero something Jim and progenitor X to give to other people to try.

[00:01:52] He's so believes in the prophets. He buys them brother. I know it's crazy. Very generous that report. Thank you, sir. It [00:02:00] was very nice to me for them. How are you? I'm doing well. My training is going great. And I'm just trying to stay healthy. So, you know, otherwise everything's falling in line.

[00:02:14] So to speak really happy really happy. Well, that's good to hear. Normally I would tell you that things are going really bad because they are but instead I twisted one right before the show. So I'm in really good spirits right now. So this should be an interesting job. That's awesome. Yeah, there you go.

[00:02:31] How do your fuzzy your foot? I didn't shoot today. Could you believe that really is in a shoe? Congratulations? I know this is like the first time ever it feels a little wonky. It's going to take a little while, but you know, it'll be back because I won't let it not be back. That's the bottom line.

[00:02:49] But yeah, I mean now I now I have one shoe once one of my sneakers is worn out and the other one looks like it's brand new because I've been walking without without one of them. Along now, [00:03:00] you must be a site that are in and around Louisville in the gym. Yeah, I think I am. So Gerry Beyers has a question.

[00:03:07] He says, what do you think about Westside and Louis Simmons? I saw the trailer for West Side versus the world looks pretty insane. What I'm wondering about is their training and whether or not it's applicable to average people aren't all his guys on steroids. Yeah, what a question these are these are actually two separate questions, you know, the validity of the training style and the steroid because because not all of them are on steroids.

[00:03:35] It's right there and you know, they're still doing the work. Right? Absolutely. And and it's a it's a great question. It's a fair question. So I'm glad somebody finally asked it. So first things first when I sat down to answer this, I thought to myself who. Other than way Johnson has given more back to the sport of [00:04:00] powerlifting then Lewis Simmons.

[00:04:02] You know, what you need to do is to understand what he has contributed is to understand his history. So his history is this Louis was a world-class powerlifter. This was in the 1970s and. Of course, he had set his records with the old Progressive, you know linear overload method and unfortunately, he wrecked his back in the process.

[00:04:30] He suffered a very severe injury two or three blown discs might have been even more serious than that. He at one point was on crutches. So he hobbles in to see the doctors and the doctors. Tell him Point Blank. You will be lucky to walk again without pain. Never mind, you know lifting weights. So Lewis Simmons.

[00:04:55] This I is only count a high school dropout looks back at the doctor [00:05:00] and he says, you know, that really doesn't work for me. Thanks for your time, and he went back to his gym and with his knowledge of anatomy and kinesiology. He developed what we know today is the reverse hyperextension and using that reverse hyperextension Louis.

[00:05:19] Successfully rehabbed himself to the point where not only did he walk again? He squatted he's right. He he came back and said New World Records being is at his age bracket. Yeah, like 800 and something pounds and at a certain age. I mean it was just it was so impressive his journey is so impressive.

[00:05:41] Insane absolutely insane so subsequently, he starts Westside Westside barbell, which is the you know known as the and is the strongest gym in the world in Columbus, Ohio and in the again in the process of rehabbing himself and [00:06:00] pursuing greater strength Louis realized that simple linear progression.

[00:06:06] Wasn't going to cut it. So he sat down he educated himself on the strength training text from various places, you know around the world, but most significantly the Russian text on such ease. You know very much a student of pearl opens table which shows based upon your percentage of one rep max.

[00:06:29] How many repetitions are optimal amongst other things and so he develops what comes to be known as the Westside method conjugate periodization where they have a Max effort day using a variation of one of the barbell classical lifts then squatter deadlift as well as the dynamic. Every day otherwise known as speed day where you are working.

[00:06:55] The acceleration of the force equals mass [00:07:00] times acceleration equation, right? So everybody in the world is trying to add more mass to the bar. This says the Practical effect when it gets heavy enough of the bar slowing down almost nobody was working out acceleration until Louis started writing about it.

[00:07:18] And so when you have both sides elevated, That's when you can exert the most force and you're at your strongest. Now. I want you to consider this Lewis Simmons would have been well within his right to keep that information private. He did all the grunt work. He learned all the lessons the hard way.

[00:07:39] He did all the homework on how to put it together and his gym had you know without question and still has most of if not all of the records. In various weight classes anyone that went through what he did would have been totally justified in keeping [00:08:00] that to himself and his gym members instead. Look what he did.

[00:08:07] He shared that with the world and he shared the reverse hyperextension with the world. And God knows there are enough people with what with back problems. So Louise Jim has all the record holders and why well, you know Louise methods are out there, but it boils down to two things, you know intensity and atmosphere.

[00:08:32] I don't care who you are. You know, my whether it's me or Carl or so. That's listening you take you and put you in West Side Gym under the guise of Louis Simmons. You better believe you're going to up your game. And so the lifters that are that go there and it's an invitation-only all up their game considerably now with respect to the question of.

[00:08:55] Are his lifters all on steroids? I don't pretend to know whether they are or [00:09:00] not. I would imagine some are and some aren't and if the trailer for West Side versus the world is any indication the guys that are have no problem telling the world that they are, you know, there are they're very open about it.

[00:09:14] Louis himself has done interviews where he says, you know, I've been on for 40 years and and I never tasted it for some reason and correct me. Those of you listening but it's like some obscure. It's like boldenone or something like that that he thinks it's one of the it sounds like boldenone if it's not building on that he's on and he's been on like 600 milligrams a week forever.

[00:09:39] And yeah, we're rabble. What is it in the rambling in the interview that I thought? I saw? Okay, Laura. Yeah, right Laura. Yeah, Laura Bolin. That's it. That's it. You said the rabbit and I'm like the deck I was thinking no. Yeah Laura Bolin. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. That's what it is. It's some obscure engine that nobody even like people like what [00:10:00] right in and it's more recuperative than anything else and he came out and said it, you know get on a low dose of something that works and stay on it.

[00:10:09] After that, it's the training in the Eden, you know and the rest in getting the dedication. So look when it comes down to drugs you can walk into any Hardcore gym in the country. I'm going to go to the gym when I leave here. There's going to be two dozen guys there on the gas not a single one of them can lift weights approaching what the guys at Westside can or Louis.

[00:10:34] Who by the way is 70 some odd years old. So that's what I would tell you about Westside Lewis Simmons when he's gone. He will leave behind a legacy and a vacuum and and strength training information that I don't think will ever be equal. We all owe him. Oh him rather a debt of gratitude.

[00:10:57] Absolutely. So to the to the [00:11:00] question of isn't it just drugs if it was just drugs there wouldn't just be one west side. There would be places all over the map with great Point guys who all squatted there like the Louis Simmons has more men who squat a thousand and over than any other place in the world, but think about this for a second the deck is kind of stacked in his favor not to take anything away from him because if it wasn't him if it wasn't his style of training we would have West sides everywhere because everybody has drugs, but there's more to it than the drugs.

[00:11:35] And the drugs are really it's kind of like, you know how to work out, you know about drugs already by the time you get to the point that you want to be professional athlete in your league. And that's that's NFL that's baseball all those guys coming up in the ranks. It's not like they get there and then they go oh drugs.

[00:11:52] I didn't know about that. They've already been experiencing experience with drugs to begin with because they're so serious about their particular [00:12:00] chosen Sports discipline that they know. This is just like buying. You know, I got my sneakers to play this game, right? So it's represents. Absolutely.

[00:12:09] But the thing is that for some reason that West Side he builds the strongest man in the world and that's the truth and and but think about this. If you're one of the strongest guys in the world and you're like 19 people like dude, man, you're like superhuman you would start looking for where would I go to exploit this god-given gift.

[00:12:29] I have oh west side in Columbus, Ohio. I'm in the Ukraine. How do I get there? I mean, yeah, he builds the strongest men he but he starting with really good stock and that's not to say that anybody could do that because I'm not saying that what I'm saying is there is something magical at Westside.

[00:12:47] That's far beyond. Drugs far beyond the drugs amen. So I want to give a shout out to Steve Beto. Dr. Steve be a toe is on vacation and watching shr. And then next question. I'm [00:13:00] sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm not being a good host today, but I'm happy. That's what's important. Okay, so this is from Bill.

[00:13:11] Kalou. Gee, I hope I did that right? I saw a picture of not long ago look. Like you were on a ship you say you're not on steroids come off it mate. You have a drugged physique. What are you using? And how much wow? Yeah, I think this is steroid. We kind of blueprint for our yeah. So so here's the deal.

[00:13:38] This is my complete history with androgens AKA steroids at the age of 25. I had bulked up with nothing more than 6,000 calories a day on the anabolic diet to 252 pounds. So that was 25 years old. [00:14:00] I took my first steroid in the year nineteen, or was it know? Yeah, 1999 at the age of 29 or 30 that steroid was legally available and is known as for and Christine Daae all it is a one-step.

[00:14:22] Away from testosterone and for my money and all the reading that I've done on it. It was intrinsically active as well. But be that as it may the product that I used was a topical or transdermal. It was known as Andrus all and it was simple for ad and and isopropyl alcohol base long story short. I use that product in put on six pounds.

[00:14:51] So I started at two and a quarter that gets me up to what. 231 okay, so that's my [00:15:00] first steroid a little while later. I don't know if it was a year or two or more or less, right? My point I used pad Arnold's Ergo Farm one ad I know a lot of you guys did a lot of us did and I got 10 pounds out of that bottle.

[00:15:18] So the combination of the two. Jet got me what 16 pounds that got me back up to 241. I looked at that and I said, you know. I guess when you put those together, it's it's considered a good gain. But could you have done you have done it without it just eating. Yeah, because I had already been to 52 but you know, I was a better lifter for the experience.

[00:15:50] I what I will say is this 16 pounds at sounds like a lot of people 16 pounds is chump change compared to the. [00:16:00] 60 to 80 that I did training naturally and eating tons and tons of food, right? So, you know, we're at 2:41. I forget how much I lost it like came off maybe half of that. Anyway, my next steroid was again, we're not we're an illegal Zone here because that was my criteria had to be.

[00:16:24] Was methyl 1 testosterone and this is this was the big daddy. It was the most powerful methyl 1 testosterone. Methyl 1 testosterone is more powerful than any illegal steroids as well just for the record because every time everybody always preface it by saying this was a legal steroid like hey, I want you know, This was available over the counter which is true.

[00:16:50] It was more powerful than any illegal steroids to not even not even 250 milligrams of D bowl or or similar [00:17:00] added roll a day will put weight on you as fast as methyl 1 Test. Crazy to think about right so it is it is it is I mean, it's like it was it was truly the the like everybody dreams that whatever the supplement they're buying or whatever drug they're about to take is going to just make give them such massive gains so quickly that it's startling to them and their friends and methyl 1 test is the only drug I've ever seen that actually does that now it does it for a finite.

[00:17:34] Sorry, it's not like you can become you know, 350 pounds on it. But the the growth is so fast that it actually puts such great strain on the body. It's shocking. Yeah, and so it's crazy to think about but I strolled in the GNC. I bought a bottle of because Harry methyl 1 T crazy, right? Yeah, and here's what's even crazier.

[00:18:00] [00:17:59] I took one 5 milligram pills a day and I put on. Under week or a pound a day rather for almost two weeks, which got its got my body weight up to on a 246 as I'm looking at my notes here. So here's the here's the other thing about and I'd say one other thing at what dose 10 milligrams a day or ten milligrams twice a day.

[00:18:27] Five milligrams of it was all I took that's the other thing people don't realize they like, wow, you know, you'd get a capsule this big and there was five milligrams of this stuff in there and and like in three days you were like, oh my God, I can't believe how swollen my body. Yeah, see if you like II remember the first time I tried it.

[00:18:46] I was like this can't be safe like anything that changes your body that quickly. It can't be safe. It can't be right in your heart and lungs cannot keep up with a pound a day. You know for two weeks. You literally felt like you were [00:19:00] stung by highfill of bees to your point about, you know, it's not good for you.

[00:19:04] But here's the other thing. So I gained almost 14 pounds. I'm in the high to 40s within a week of coming. Of gone all 14 pounds drawing which tells you what it wasn't protein synthesis. It was all fluid caught in the muscle, right? It was just all fluid in the muscle you hit the nail on the head and there are ghosts just now.

[00:19:28] I had blood work. And at the end of two weeks, I got that blood work back. It was not pretty muscle one test hammered your HDL good cholesterol. Mine was in the single digits. I would you guys say they were people on mind and muscle back in the day posting their lab work after a single cycle of m 1 T and like and their their HDL was like three like right and the whole lives.

[00:19:53] It had been like 40 something 50-something was like three. Right and I [00:20:00] saw blood work and I believe this was established to by the Vitae text within three days. You were a hundred percent shut down a hundred percent in three days. That's how strong this stuff was. It is important to point out that no matter how much methyl one test.

[00:20:19] I took no matter how much for interesting dial or 180. I never again reached my all-time high of 252 nor were my strength levels, you know that dramatically altered and that's one really weird thing with me. No matter what I've taken. You know, my strength has always been my strength. I never lost it.

[00:20:44] But anyway, look here's the point. I have I used steroids. Yes, I hell. Yeah. Hell yeah, do I regret it? Hell no because I can talk to people now with credibility when [00:21:00] they ask me questions about hey, the steroids were are they worth it? What are the program? What and what are the cons and consequently, you know, I have that information.

[00:21:13] Look, it was a it was a time in my life where I had tapped out everything that I was genetically capable of and for those that think hormone levels of the magic thing think again today. I'm on an HRT dose of testosterone and that is it. Do I use other things like saw arms and or peptides rather sure, but you know, let's be honest none of those.

[00:21:43] Is creating world-class physiques it's not the drugs people. It's the training. It's the eating and it's the going to bed early and sacrificing and if you don't believe that I want you to go out and buy all the steroids you [00:22:00] can I want you to take so many even you're losing track just shotgun everything and in a year, you can come back to me and tell me.

[00:22:09] Oh, it's all steroids. It's not. It's not it's hard work. That's the reality is it's hard work. You know, I don't understand why m1t isn't available on the black market where all these other anabolics are available. I can't believe that they have a revived m1t. I just thought of that I was like dude if somebody started like a one of those offshore websites and started selling m1t cuz if you need so little that they could probably put it into like blotter paper and then you can mail it in a number.

[00:22:41] 10 envelope like they do blotter acid and and people I mean everyone T is unbelievable it is but but again something somebody's got it by the way because I've seen it for sale over in England real somebody who's yeah, somebody's using it over. But hey, you know, [00:23:00] what? Would what a source quote-unquote source be carrying it.

[00:23:03] I don't know you kind of want your customers around for a while, right? You don't want him in the hospital with a pickled liver horrible. It was horrible. It was good. It was good for maybe but I want husband. I want two points. I want to point something out. That's kind of being missed here the stronger the Androgen the greater the manipulation of electrolytes.

[00:23:26] Remember this so androgens produce strength through two mechanisms Androgen excite nervous system increased muscle tone, which is the constant underlying like Idol signal to your muscle to stay ready. Right? But the other thing they do is they they attenuate and mediate electrolytes. That actually are responsible.

[00:23:56] For contractile Force right the nerves [00:24:00] tell them the fiber fire, but it's the key flux and influx of of electrolytes going across gradients that make the muscle fiber contract violation. Lee and when you look at drugs like Trend ballon, there's good research that shows that Trend ballon changes the calcium to potassium levels in the heart and everybody who does Trend tell you man my heart my pulse used to be like 57 sitting down and once I did my first dose of trending it was like 95 all the time.

[00:24:37] Yeah, because you just turned up the sensitivity. So every pulse that's going it's like your heart's not pumping violently. The other muscles in your body. Yeah, you just hit upon something very powerful that but whatever that's why one and methyl 1 T blew you up because it actually it turbocharged those gradients and pulled fluid into the the fibers.

[00:24:57] That's where I was going with that. I'm sorry. Good. [00:25:00] No, it's you brought you hit on something very powerful, which is this steroids leave Clues. We have not found something. That's does everything that steroids do they're still the uncontested champion of muscle growth, but electrolytes the muscle cell holding more fluid.

[00:25:22] These are Clues folks as to what works by and so it's just a matter of time before we discover natural compounds that do it. Perhaps not to the same extent but still. Something that works. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. We're going to take a commercial break which is going to take me a couple seconds to actually roll into because first I have to stop the music, there we go.

[00:25:46] And then I have to move the screen up boy. Someday. I'll have a producer again. Then I have to hit solo and then I have to say be right back come back.

[00:25:58] I'm your host and producer. [00:26:00] I'm the camera guy. Hi, Rob, let me get the next question. I'm sorry. I'm moving slow today. But after I couldn't bring email up on my server the one that's in front of me. So I'm having to work for my phone. Hey, this is from Johnny loud. And he says I've listened to a few shows and I think both you guys are jerks know and it sounds like you watch a lot of wrestling when you were younger.

[00:26:23] Do you know what these guys were taking? I mean guys like Hulk Hogan and others from his ear. How did it different versus bodybuilders of today? What did it? Yeah, this is an interesting question. I mean you are a big fan you are you're still a fan of wrestling right? I was I can I literally can't watch it today because of the way it's promoted its Sports entertainment.

[00:26:52] These days is way too much entertainment and not enough support. Okay, so I'll leave it at that but For Better or For [00:27:00] Worse, the business is is just laid bare today by the people that work in it. The people that promoted etc, etc. And for my money, it's definitely for worse, but it has given us a rare insight into some of the drug use that was going on specifically during the 1980s and in the World Wrestling.

[00:27:25] Pigment which then was the World Wrestling Federation and specifically what I'm talking about is a Pennsylvania physician urologist by the name of dr. George zahari. Mmm. So the hurry and was the quote unquote ringside. And Allentown, Pennsylvania matches where the WWF taped most of their television from some of you might remember it came from that little Arena and that's right there in Allentown.

[00:27:56] He actually his office was in Hershey Pennsylvania, and it was a [00:28:00] frequent stop for a lot of wrestlers because it came out in the 1993 trial of Vince McMahon. Am you know, who was getting the drugs who they were. Taking them from what they were at sector excetera, but how they got to McMahon is an interesting story and it's basically this zarian made the mistake of selling about 650 dollars worth of steroids and painkillers to an undercover informant who was a powerlifter.

[00:28:33] I think his name was William. Don't wait a minute. Wait a minute a powerlifter. Who's an. Yeah. Well, no, I'm serious. Most powerlifters would be like nah, man. I'm not I'm not going to ride on somebody gotta Crush my Knuckles get it over with cause I gotta go deadlifts. Now. I'm you know, what, I would second your opinion will get to that some other time.

[00:28:53] Okay, but this guy rolled and so he wore a wire in and [00:29:00] the federal agents outside that we're listening heard something curious ones a hairy and said I'm giving you better priceless. Prices that I give to the wrestlers. and the Agents turned to each other and said the wrestlers with the hell's he talking about.

[00:29:15] So when they raided now, the undercover Buy has been made they raided his office whereupon they found dozens of FedEx boxes shipping. To not only various Arenas and hotels around the country but also to WWE headquarters in Stanford, Connecticut. Wow, and then pain. Yeah in the names on those labels were terrible Leia who you know is Hulk Hogan Roderick Tunes who would people know is Rowdy Roddy Piper.

[00:29:50] Jim Hellwig the Ultimate Warrior and several other WWE wrestlers now interestingly enough. He was actually selling these [00:30:00] drugs to the guys in most cases without a prescription. But here's the one good thing about those athletes getting those drugs at that time. The doctor was monitoring their health.

[00:30:17] Number one and number two. At least you're right. These guys knew the drugs were real today. They got to buy them. Off the street in any case the Harry and went down and went down hard. But that gave them the information to get to Vince McMahon who they brought to trial in 1993. A lot of his wrestlers including Hogan decided to testify against him although interestingly enough.

[00:30:49] Hogan's testimony was that McMahon never forced anyone, you know, we're told anyone to take steroids and and he beat the rap which was huge [00:31:00] but in the course of that trial. The individuals and what they were taking, you know, that information came out Hogan was using decorative Rebellion. Depot and testosterone which if you look if you look at his physique over the years that sounds and looks about right?

[00:31:20] Yeah, of course, he was he wasn't big but he was smooth looking, you know, right so he's an old weightlifter not necessarily a bodybuilder, right? But he also testified he was on for 13 straight years and didn't even have a break. There was other interesting testimony Tony Atlas. Mr. USA Tony Atlas who had one of the.

[00:31:41] Zeke's up until this day I would say in professional wrestling. He used Dianabol and that was it. He started with one pillow week 5 milligrams and got up to 25 milligrams and then went back down again. Wow. I know if you don't know who Tony Atlas [00:32:00] is Google it and I want you to see some pictures in his prime really amazing stuff.

[00:32:06] In any case those are the drugs that the wrestlers took they primarily took them for two reasons number one for recuperation because of the nightly beatings that they took. Yeah. I know the rest Russia was trained long days, and then they perform at night. I know. Absolutely, and and of course the Cosmetic effect, which you know, there's no offseason.

[00:32:30] You gotta pay per view every month. You got a TV taping every two weeks. You know, where is their time to come off? And what have you it helped a lot especially 300-plus days a week are 300-plus days a year rather on the road. If you've spent just Days on the Road, you know what it does to your diet and sleep.

[00:32:53] So that's the history of steroids and wrestling today. It's much less of an issue. [00:33:00] You don't have to be all jacked up and big today. In fact, most of the guys are I would say quote unquote normal looking, you know, quite a few are 200 pounds or under. If you can believe that, you know, when are pretty good.

[00:33:15] I was a kid. I watched wrestling we had it on UHF. So back in the day before cable kitties. Yeah, so I had a TV set in my house. I had my own sharp. The first thing they ever sold in the United States was 1969. And it was a it was a black and white 12 inch TV set and I wanted one my mother bought it for me.

[00:33:39] So I put it next to my bed and you know, and so I remember watching the 1969 Mets win the World Series on that team. Wow, but you know, it's interesting because back then we had 13 channels in New York. And that's a lot because I live here in Kentucky and like back in the sixties people like we had to.

[00:34:00] [00:34:00] So we had 13 Channel, but then we had uh F which you had to have the round antenna that hooked up to the back of your TV and then it is stations from like likes 15 and up. And so on channel 47 on Friday night Saturday nights. They used to have Lucha. And it was yeah, it was it was all in Spanish and I used to watch Bruno Sammartino.

[00:34:23] I used to watch who was the golden spike. He was a Ukrainian like a Russian guy. I think or German guy but Haystacks Calhoun affects the major the major, it's we can't call midget style. Right? What do we call now? The little people there was there was Sky Lolo. Yes that he used to jump used to jump from the turnbuckle and flip and then land like Anya and I mean I used to watch it as a kid and I used to laugh but it was never something that and I got friends in high school that will like devoted.

[00:34:55] You know, WWF they were like down there all the time and they for some [00:35:00] reason I just never I didn't get caught up in it after after being a kid. Okay. So Mike flower tea says I respond really well to act. Aaron in fact the more I take the better. I feel I gain faster in the gym. My joints feel better and I even puts me in a better mood and get a load of this.

[00:35:19] I woke up Saturday morning and someone wallpapered the bathroom for me. I think it's the X I stare own know if I was going to build a supplement stack around XD. What would you recommend? I'm in the US by the way. yeah, well Mike is much like me he. Really well on the stuff and if you visit any message boards or talk to anyone, it's pretty much split down the middle.

[00:35:48] There are some people that will tell you it does nothing. There are other people like me that will tell you it's been a tremendous help on a number of fronts sleeping deeper. [00:36:00] Certainly recuperation and recovery from the gym and I would argue when you've got all you know cylinders firing. It makes muscle gain a little bit easier not like test or Deca.

[00:36:13] No, but you know, it's certainly easier than if you were training with nothing or taking no supplements, but. When it comes to act as their own in this country, there are precious few companies with the good stuff and I would tell you XD got off to a great start in this country. A product called read a ball was put out by athletica.

[00:36:40] It was Rippon to come Karthik voids extract tiny white pills and people loved it because it worked and it worked really well. Unfortunately shortly after that dubious companies would. China and they got their act East arrow and extract from inferior Source genus plants likes I notice Vago [00:37:00] you can still see a lot of that junk on the market today and consequently its reputation is dirt, but what I will say is that.

[00:37:09] Muscle and sports science which produces symptoms Jim if you've ever ordered something Jam that they're the company behind it. They have the longest history in the country with that Guist are owned and. In my opinion, they have the best products today with XD from a variety of different source genuses.

[00:37:31] So, you know as long ago as 1993 they were selling zou discoveries zebby at all, which was the Summa sterile extract and act I stare own product was a which was a five Alpha hydroxy like Soldier. XD stare on analog today their Flagship products with FDR's follows adaptogen in which I've spoken about numerous times on this on [00:38:00] this program.

[00:38:02] And that derives its acti from a custom the only custom 25 to 1 Suma on the market today. You can look around. I'm pretty sure what you'll find at. Best elsewhere is a 5 to 1 Suma. So certainly adaptogen M has as the good stuff and quite a bit if I'm not mistaken for to 500 milligrams per serving.

[00:38:28] But there are other XD products are of course mass percentage in you obviously know what it does, you know stand out in recuperation and recovering in another product which is called cree and a bowline Korean a bowline has per cap. The largest amount of activists are own of any product out there and it uses the same Rippon to come extract that we use.

[00:38:58] Simply Jim it [00:39:00] is an exceptional little item and it's a prop blend but I can tell you this. There's enough act I stare own in one pill and there's it's a to add a is the suggested serving size, but there's enough in one for a 300-pound man carrying a lot of muscle. It's also it also has criança line for hydroxy.

[00:39:27] I see. Seam and some l-dopa from mucuna pruriens extract. Anyway, long story short he is making available if it's not available now will be shortly. Something called The Blueprint mask stack and it goes back. Yeah, it goes back to guys that were using the blueprint. And they needed something to recover them fast and get good sleep and yada yada, so he bundled those three products at a discount and at the time I think he [00:40:00] even threw in a free bottle of his pre-workout.

[00:40:05] Burn it up burn it up. So you get one or two bottles of Korean a bowline a bottle of something in a bottle of adaptogen N and a bottle of his pre-workout at a considerable discount if everything goes according to plan he may even have. Um, I've special next week or the week after I think he has to wait for some products to get in stock.

[00:40:30] The really nice part of using that much Equity stero is that will be coming out of your ears at that point Cynthia G and you would only have to use on training days and even at Max dosage that's going to last you for 18 workouts. So four or five weeks for the person lifting heavy four days a week if and when I get that, you know, Discount special I'll certainly let you know but those are the best acne products in my [00:41:00] opinion that you can buy and that's what each one of them does and.

[00:41:07] For those of you that do by that I would love to hear from you is you know honest feedback is all I ask whether it's good bad or indifferent. I would love to hear from guys that are run that stack I did it once before this is before. I got on HRT and I felt fantastic. I never felt better, you know acting been around for a long time.

[00:41:33] It's one of those things that it's just, you know, hate it or love it. It seems to be working because still around we got a couple of questions from the audience. This one is planet kind of funny. I think Michael Caine said, why do you Americans call it the World Series when very few play?

[00:41:52] Rounders. So in other words, I guess what we call baseball is not a popular [00:42:00] sport in other countries and yet we call it the World Series. Well, I mean, that's a really good point. I don't know that's that's good. I guess there when they decide when Abner Doubleday decided to have a tournament. He thought more people would show up.

[00:42:13] Maybe that's what happened. He's got a point there. I mean there are professional leagues in Japan and I don't see the Japanese teams partaking of interleague play. Yeah, so hey, hey, you know what? I don't really watch it anyway, so, I don't know. I don't know why they call it that Darcy clock was making I'm sorry.

[00:42:32] I watch the postseason stuff and I played baseball all the way through college. The only reason I even watch it now. So when I was in college, I became very close friends with a fella named Frankie. Pignatano. Frankie's father was Joe pignatano and Joe picnic. Anna was the pitching coach and previously the third base.

[00:42:51] For the Mets right before that he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers when he [00:43:00] started out in his career as a catcher and so Joe was very well respected in baseball and Frankie and I were in college Frankie and I used to hunt together. We do everything together. I became very very close friends with them.

[00:43:12] That's the only period of my life that I followed baseball that was it. Darcy Clark says we used to call it the TF. Hey. Three effing channels he's talking about when I was saying that you know back in the day when we were kids. We had 13 channels. We didn't have cable TV and something and Cat and he's in Canada.

[00:43:32] He's in Canada. I so here's the next question. This one comes from Dave Meltzer melzer melzer. I'm getting that ammonia smell you talked about on a prior episode. It happens anytime I sweat but especially when I work out what causes it and how do I get rid of it? Stop sleep? Probably sleeping with your cat.

[00:43:53] Yeah. Yeah, right. It's absolutely and that's what you'll smell like fortunately. I'll try to make this fast. Look [00:44:00] when you eat too much protein at the expense of the other macronutrients either carbs or fats you're training your body to burn protein doing so is incredibly. Expensive and inefficient now think about it you're telling your body to burn protein that includes muscle as soon as your dietary protein you if you go too long without it.

[00:44:23] So there's a lot of toxic waste that's thrown off. Ammonia is a big part of it. That's why you'll smell like cat urine the way the way to fix that quite simply start consuming either more fat. Or more carbohydrates than protein and it takes a minimum of a two to one ratio. That's what I've worked out now.

[00:44:46] I will also say one other thing. I was on here a few weeks ago is asked about glutamine. My opinion is doesn't do jack for performance enhancement. That is still my opinion. However [00:45:00] glutamine does an exceptional job mopping up ammonia excess ammonia that's thrown off as a result of. Protein metabolism.

[00:45:09] So there are some instances and this is one of them where you might want to Avail yourself to glutamine in particular. I'm thinking of individuals that diet stringently and because there's a real good case to be made for more protein on a lot of it to offset catabolism glutamine and that. Is going to scavenge the ammonia and you'll notice, you know, quite a bit less of that smell but look the the best solution by far is to get your fats or carbohydrates up.

[00:45:44] That's just how it is. Yeah, and don't eat more protein because you think well is glutamine and protein because that you need a preponderance of glutamine to straighten things out interesting, you know, I went through a period of time in my life where I had that problem and I don't know if I [00:46:00] just stopped eating as much protein.

[00:46:01] I really don't. But it was when I was living in Arizona. It really is you I was you'll know it. You'll know it if you yeah, my t-shirts used to smell like I would smell like mr. Clean that my mother used to mop the floor with ya and so strong disgusting. It really was. Yeah it'll register in your nostrils.

[00:46:22] Believe me. I we're going to take one break and when we come back, I think we have the blueprint tip of the day of did I miss any questions? I don't know. I don't think I guess I'll go look. Well cut when I come back, I'll stay tuned. All right, welcome back. So we do have another question before we go onto the blueprint tip of the day.

[00:46:42] Okay, here it is. Turn my phone this way unlock it. Come on see my face see my face see my face. They don't want to get it. So Mike Grady says I want to do a muscle up one arm chin up and believe it or not. I want to do a one-arm handstand. [00:47:00] How can I best accomplish these goals? I would buy a bungee cord hang it from the ceiling and tight around your ankles so that it pulls you up.

[00:47:09] No, I'm just kidding. I'm just being goofy today. I'm Ed McMahon today. Go ahead Johnny. Well, those are admirable goals. I would tell you muscle ups are doable. Maybe even a one-armed chin up. I have I have yet to see a one-arm handstand pushup. You'd have to you'd have to be against the wall.

[00:47:32] Let's be honest, you'd have to have your choice against the wall. No question, but even that is like I said, I haven't seen it. Maybe it's out there more power to you if you can do it. So just briefly what we're talking about. Here is Cal Aesthetics and in particular, you know, the most advanced ones the most.

[00:47:57] There is but one book that I would recommend [00:48:00] for that and it is convict conditioning by Paul Wade. It covers six exercises that work the entire body and the Brilliance in the book. Is this, you know for each exercise. There's a master step like in the push up series. It's one-armed push-ups. The Brilliance in the book is he gives you 10 steps on how to get there?

[00:48:26] The first one is something as simple as push-ups against a wall your grandmother could do this. But the point is you have a road that's laid out in front of you to get you to performing those Advance lifts. I can't really think of another book that's going to add as much as convict conditioning brings to the table from bodyweight training.

[00:48:50] There may be some I would tell you there are a couple things that I would do differently only insofar as performing one-legged squats [00:49:00] or pistols. Those are most easily accomplished by hanging a belt from a chin-up bar and grasping with your. And then performing one are one-legged squats rather write for balance and to pull up when you lack the strength and then five fingers four, three, two, one down to you know, none at all.

[00:49:24] And now you're doing now you're doing one-legged squats now when it comes however to supplements and drugs, the game is much different than what. Normally pursued I'll call it for natural trainees, you know creatine is a no-brainer right got to have it it does this it does that the reality is at least early on it adds a lot of quick water weight and 10 pounds whether or not that's in you know, [00:50:00] subcutaneous fat or muscle.

[00:50:02] It's going to make bodyweight movements significantly more difficult as such. I would steer clear of it at least early on in your calisthenic training instead. I would certainly much prefer and recommend things like beta alanine and supplements that strengthen the Mind muscle link and also allow your central nervous system to fire much more efficiently.

[00:50:31] Those would include l-tyrosine three grams on an empty stomach about an hour before training. CPC three to six hundred milligrams prior to training dmae dimethylamine. Oh ethanol, which is a precursor to acetylcholine and a fairly economical one of that ginkgo biloba couple hundred milligrams and vitamin B6 50 to 60 milligrams.

[00:50:59] You'll [00:51:00] also you might want to throw in a source of. Fast food little something for phosphatidyl choline which would be Fern lecithin granules. Very economical two tablespoons a day. If you want to go a little further a smidgen of caffeine in 25 to 50 milligrams of ephedrine gives you all the horsepower that you're going to need but those are great goals their admirable goals.

[00:51:25] Um, just make sure you are as lean and pound-for-pound strong as you can be final note. The individuals that can perform things like one arm chin-ups are all well under 200 pounds. If there's an individual that's 200 or more doing them more power to you. But from what I've seen they're generally much lighter strength athletes and most of them frankly have a gymnast background now that not to put the put that into context with the strength of a chimpanzee.

[00:52:00] [00:52:00] You know that it can actually swing from trees from its hands not when you put it in a human context like doing a one arm chin up for you. There's a huge goal. But yeah, I mean the strength to body size ratio for small animals. It's just amazing.

[00:52:23] Yeah, it's really amazing. Human beings got insanely big and strong before gems before adjustable barbell certainly before supplements and drugs and they did that by progressively manipulating their body weight. Right that simple it's that simple. So something something to think about really is.

[00:52:46] So now we come to the part of the show that everybody is waiting for and that is the blueprint tip of the day. What is the blueprint tip of the day rub the tip of the day has to do with getting young young [00:53:00] people off to a good start in strength training. And I'm going to use my son as the example because some very interesting things happened early on when I approached him about strength training.

[00:53:14] And so I want you to consider this before we even set foot in a gym. I asked him I said Nicholas, how do you think people build. His exact response word-for-word. I'll never forget it was this steroids and working out. This is a this is a nine year old boy. Understand the perception problem that we have.

[00:53:43] It is so bad nine year old children the first word out of their mouth when they think of the building muscle is steroids. Um to my mind that is profoundly sad, it's certainly not the [00:54:00] truth. And so I desired to start him out performing calisthenics, you know, he started with a couple of years later at 11 or 12.

[00:54:14] He's now been doing it for two years and yesterday are no Sunday rather. He performed a one-legged squat with seventy seven and a half pounds of additional but additional weight strap. Wow, that's outstanding. Yeah, and he doesn't think it's in it's any big deal, but I made I made the point to him.

[00:54:35] I said Nicholas. What do you think some of your friends are going to say in school? If you you know, knock out a few squats with 77 and a half additional pounds and he looked at me and he said steroids I said he really say that all yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, he's but think about this. This is true right because.

[00:54:56] Whenever someone sees I've been hearing it since I was [00:55:00] 17 whenever somebody see someone with a fairly High degree of muscle tissue and is capable of Zoe steroids for right? It's always yours and believe me when I tell you this it is a rescue phrase that is designed to save the person from one Unthinkable thought.

[00:55:24] He worked harder than me. He knows something. I don't he's been doing this longer than I've been alive. So that saves them you see and it in their mind. It's just well if I took steroids I could do that too. It is also the single best compliment you could ever get if you're not using anything because what does that tell you and their mind your size?

[00:55:53] Strength are so incredible. They can only be explained by the fact that you're taking [00:56:00] powerful bodybuilding drugs so sad so we'll leave that point there in order to guide these children you therefore need to do a couple things. Number one is offering to help because think about it if they don't know anything about strength training, are they going to approach you?

[00:56:19] Of course, not of course not you know it. Takes a lot of guts for for an adult to walk into a gym like a lot of us do every day a Hardcore gym full of big strong guys. You know how much more difficult is it for a child of you know, 11 or 12 years to do that. It's very difficult. But in this is this is another really important point now more than it has to be even or ideally it needs to be you training someone.

[00:56:52] Then your own son. Now more than ever boys need father's because [00:57:00] let's be honest. There's a lot of fathers that either aren't in the picture or they've been so emasculated by the crap that goes on in society today. But their sons don't have strong Role Models looking at the to them to learn how to talk how to walk and how to act and be a man because the world that they're growing up in is teaching them about quote-unquote toxic masculinity from from kindergarten kindergarten router all the way through college.

[00:57:40] Our education system is not an. Action System, it is now an indoctrination system in things like toxic masculinity. Okay. That's what they're going to hear being a man is bad there further going to step into a world where Planet [00:58:00] Fitness AKA Planet mediocrity dominates the landscape, right? It is a place think about this.

[00:58:09] It is everything that is wrong with America Planet Fitness is a place where hard work is discouraged totally discouraged. They have fat personal trainers. There's no other way to say it. They are at least the ones that I've seen instructing complete newbies and they reward their members just for showing up with pizza and Tootsie Rolls.

[00:58:35] In fact folk. In fact is it there it is. They're their new slogan come for the donuts, but stay for the pizza. Not only can I had to say I'm sorry, but but I mean think about it. Yeah, I mean you can't make that crap up right? I mean if you came to me in the mid-1980s and you said hey, there's going to be a gym chain that [00:59:00] pretty much is putting all of the gems out of business.

[00:59:03] But they discourage hard work. They don't want you to build too much muscle and they're going to feed you junk food and crap like Tootsie. I mean think about it really that that summary is accurate. No one could say that's not accurate that it like they have to lure you in using your fatness. I mean, okay, there's a lot of fit people at trained at Planet Fitness is all over the country.

[00:59:26] They go there because it's nine ninety-five a month and they actually go in there and they work they have to do it on a very very low-key basis because they don't want to attract anybody and have anybody look at them and go my God that person's physique is amazing. They make me feel uncomfortable make them leave because that's really because that's really what goes on at plaintiff at.

[00:59:47] I mean, it's like don't remind me that I look like a turd with legs. Don't remind me of that get that person out of here. So, you know exactly but but I mean, you know, think about it that that summary that you just gave [01:00:00] it cannot be they can't no one applauded fatness could come on this show and say now that's not true.

[01:00:06] Well, wait a minute. Do you not advertise you have pizzas and doughnuts and Tootsie Rolls. The isn't that part of your advertising? Well, yeah it is. Yeah. Oh, okay. So like how is that? Honest assessment of what your gym is doing its appealing to people's weaknesses and saying pay us ninety-five a month and you can say I have a gym membership so you don't feel guilty when you're big and fat and sitting next to somebody on the bus and bleeding into their seat.

[01:00:33] You can go I have Planet Fitness membership. I keep that to absolve my guilt that I'm not taking care of my body. I keep it right here. Amen, and that that is exactly it and you know, I think you crystallized it perfectly. Look the other opportunity is this to get these damn kids away from their smartphones who spend all day looking at their little phones and playing games and [01:01:00] get them in the gym.

[01:01:00] I saw something the other day. Kids grip strength is awful today compared to our generation why they're not about climbing trees. They're sitting there with their thumbs playing their stupid games, right you get the kid wait, you get the kids away from the phone you get them in the gym and you get them to focus on a different activity.

[01:01:23] That's only, you know going to benefit them. So look when you get in there when I train kids, there are no participation. This I tell him flat out we're going to train that means you need to take care of business what you do when you leave here, that's your business what you do before you come here.

[01:01:43] That's your business. But when you're in here, we got to take care of business and that means being better today than you were yesterday. There is instruction there is effort and they're frankly you got to lead by example. Okay, [01:02:00] this is incredibly. Important, you know, not just to pass along to the Next Generation how to strength train properly.

[01:02:09] But again raising a generation of boys to be men because the next time planes fly into buildings, okay, or it comes time to get the next bin Laden. Send the end a bunch of metrosexuals isn't cutting it. in fact, the military is having problems right now just finding good recruits to bring in to I mean, you know, we did a show with the with Nate Morris and last year where the Army has eliminated Grant grenade throwing practice because most people weren't strong enough to throw a grenade and so they feared that giving them.

[01:02:51] Which would lead to them blowing themselves up in their and their their roommates around them. So it's we're really and we're really in a bad [01:03:00] situation right now. It's really really scary. Are you kidding? No. No, we did a show last year about it that there that the arm the Army is no longer training.

[01:03:08] Now that doesn't mean they won't be people who throw grenades but they're not make it part of basic training anymore like grenade launcher throwing a grenade is going to become a specialty. In the Army at some point I can you throw. I don't think so. Okay, you're not going to be throwing any grenades.

[01:03:23] You know the other guy. Hey, can you throw hell I can throw a dumbbell. Okay, give that guy a grenade. It's not going to be standard. Everybody gets a grenade. That's my prediction. Now, let's see if it comes true because they've already said they're not training people to throw grenades anymore because they can't throw.

[01:03:40] And this is this is part of the problem the watering down of physical standards and things like the military and unlike in civilian life. Watering those standards down it can result in people dying it already has yes. Okay it already [01:04:00] has you. What are those physical standards down and people die period end of story.

[01:04:07] I don't care what. Re false reality you want to live in and propagate but that's the reality today in the world today and we need boys to become men and they right. Yeah, we have to we have to stop the being embarrassed that we expect men to be strong. You know, this is nonsense today. Let me let me give you the example the analogy of a participation trophy in weightlifting.

[01:04:34] You went into the gym with three other people the goal today was. Hundred pounds to guys did one guy didn't but we're going to write down that you broke 300 pounds anyway on your book today. So who benefits from that nobody benefits from that and that person isn't going to come in and go from 300 to 315 at some point in time because they never even got to 300.

[01:04:54] So we're building with building young men on Sam. The wet weather the [01:05:00] foundation is constantly sliding out from under them because we're not building Good Foundations for strong boys anymore and look there's plenty of strong people who aren't violent. They aren't aggressive. They aren't you no conflict starters.

[01:05:13] They're not out there starting trouble. In fact, if you look at who's starting trouble in our population today, it's really these confused guys with man buns and stuff like that. You know what I mean? I mean, I really think that they feel like they don't have masculinity. So they have to act out in strong men come sit in a room people can fight in front of them.

[01:05:31] They looking now I've now rolling to his space or her space is strong women to they'll jump in but there's nothing wrong with with embracing strength and our population is doomed if we don't figure this out soon doomed because you're absolutely we're the ones that go to war. You know what? I mean?

[01:05:49] We're the ones that go out and out of the cave to go hunt while the saber-tooth is in the area too, you know. Yeah. So so that's by ramp be a part of the solution [01:06:00] offered a train a young boy. If you don't have a son offered to train somebody else's they they desperately need male role models.

[01:06:10] Desperately and if there's any priest listen to the show, do not start training on voice. I'm just bet that we don't have any. But if we do, I'm just saying that's this is not a good idea for you. I'm sorry. I am I am providing humor today. That's all I'm doing. Okay, man that color guy. That's all we've got and it's been a great blueprint power our thank you go visit coach Rob register.com visited often you'll be stronger for.

[01:06:36] And we will see you tomorrow with more superhuman radio. Thanks for listening and [01:07:00] watching.

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