[00:00:00] I'm leaving that picture up there for a second longer because that is also Carlin or but that's Carlin or when he was at a jolly. ER sighs. I was Jolly back then. Hey, welcome back to supremum radio. It's Tuesday, which means the blueprint power our I'm warning you now that I can't see a damn thing because the contact lenses I have on were only supposed to be one for two weeks.

[00:00:53] And I think these happen to be one for six months. I got the wrong lenses in this. But I'll do my best to keep the show [00:01:00] moving forward with my co-host coach. Rob reddish. Let me go ahead and play his music for him real quick and get him calling all blueprint Army fall in line. It's time for the blueprint Power Hour with Coach Rodriguez on the Superhuman Radio Network.

[00:01:21] So coach being who he is. Not an. Drug user or let's say it drug. Encyclopedia didn't catch before the last blueprint Power Hour. I said, I burnt one right before the show today. And apparently I've gotten emails from people saying I was hilarious that my jokes was so funny. I don't know. I don't remember them.

[00:01:44] Maybe they were maybe they weren't but you know, we're going to do a test. I burnt one again today before the show. So let's see how it goes coach goes. I didn't know that you did that. I said yeah, man when I said burnt one, he was like, yeah, but I didn't know what that meant. [00:02:00] Hahaha. How you doing Rob?

[00:02:02] I'm doing great my friends laugh at me to about that kind of stuff. But you know, it was just never My Scene not that I you know pass judgment on anyone. I think it actually pops turned out to have a lot of. Well, you know, but the reality is that it just wasn't you interested in physical culture at a young age because of your interest in wrestling and stuff like that.

[00:02:25] So right that that was not going to make you bigger stronger or faster. So for you, it's like why even right? Why are you even bothering just I do want to give a shout out to some some my guys Synod box. Kirkland we're Letty Tommy D panels into knockos and Lars Thornton, you know, these are five guys.

[00:02:47] Just great guys. Is it large Thorn home in Sweden? I'm sorry. It's escaping me Thornton or thrown old. I think yeah. Yeah good. I'm sorry, [00:03:00] you know that a lot of these guys are just physical specimen. And most of the time I'm thinking I should take their advice instead of Vice Versa. But the bottom line is this they actually contribute to to a lot of the stuff that I cover in the bulletin and you know, when you've got guys that are this well-versed in training nutrition supplementation, their feedback is essential you can't buy it because they really know what they're doing.

[00:03:29] So I just want to say. Yeah large is Amazing by the way, and if anyone has seen his physique and he's in his 40s now, right it was he 50 yet. He might be 50. I don't write so he looks he looks like an ass. Yeah road atlas. It's yeah, but one time he one time he sent me a picture and it was It was kind of getting in a dangerous zone of you know, he had nothing on it was like it was almost it almost crossed the line from hey, bro, check out my physique to hey, bro, check out my package, you know what I mean?

[00:04:00] [00:03:59] Now largest Lars is laughing right now Lars and I communicate a lot. He's a really really good. In fact, he bought Thrive and he loved and I've I have to figure out how to get thriving to the UK and the European Union. I if anybody out there is interested in carrying it reach out to me at on are at superhuman radio dotnet because it's worthy of your effort that you know, we have a we have a campaign going right now for Thrive and basically I'm saying I'm challenging you every one of.

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[00:04:55] I'm not going to buy Thrive because it's kind of expensive and I'm getting this for $10 a pound and they want me to [00:05:00] pay $20 a pound for this. So that's the only reason but you have to acknowledge that it's Superior to what you're taking and that will probably cause some phenomenon called protein Envy where you'll actually hate those of us who use Thrive because we use it and you'll say we have true you'll say we have thrived privilege.

[00:05:18] Oh, you've got Thrive privileged man. That's not fair. The rest of us need Thrive and we need to have it for free. But I can't do that because we make such a small amount of it. I literally make it taste great to I'm here for a dollar. I make a handful of dollars in order right now. If you use the code compare at Thrive thr IV protein.com, you'll get a 3-pound jug 459 and free shipping anywhere in the United States.

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[00:06:08] That's it. That's my only pitch for the day. I will. So anyway, we have questions. We have lots of questions. And I'm using my iPhone today to read so this one comes from Drew Davis and he says I'm having a hard time bringing both my Squat and deadlift up. This never was an issue in the past. I'll be 41 and a few months and this problem has never cropped up before what can I do to get back on track?

[00:06:34] Yeah, you know peeking The Squat and the deadlift is a tall order even if you're young, however. I would tell you just because you cross, you know, the magical age of 40. It is not as big a figure as as perhaps once thought so if I'm not mistaken, there's someone at the Arnold this year. He's a 50 year old guy.

[00:06:59] He pulled like [00:07:00] 860 pulled an 862 in the absolutely mind-blowing, you know in when I was young. 50 year old man, you wouldn't expect him to be in the gym. Never mind lifting weights like that. So a lot of this has to do with expectations. Now a component of it does have to do with central nervous system recovery as well as vertical loading of the spine and there are those of you I'm one such person.

[00:07:32] that really can't do justice to both due to the fact that. It can cause issues with the lower back. So the question becomes how do you still pick both? I think number one. You need to pick one of the two and I would suggest that the the deadlift for the following reasons. Number one you lift. You can use it works more total muscle mass than even the squat and number two.

[00:07:59] You're [00:08:00] moving the weight from a dead stop, which will have a direct carry. To your squat. You can't always say that about the squat depending upon what type of squatting you're doing. So it's going to look like this I would suggest using a loading pattern to up your deadlift and you can you can run.

[00:08:20] I've got a half a dozen of them, you know the story there. I had guys literally put hundreds of pounds on that but the question becomes what do we do about our squats? Well, One of the things that I'm doing now and having great success with is I have a heavy day believe it or not on the on the Belt squat.

[00:08:40] So for those of you that familiar that are familiar the Bell squat is comes in a couple different forms, my gym has a quote unquote belt squat machine with a cable coming through the flooring you Loop a bell. Around your waist you if you hitch up to that cable [00:09:00] and stand up unfortunately most belt squats that I've seen including.

[00:09:04] The one I'm working on is god-awful and it's design meaning you can squat down and hook up to that cable apparatus. However, you know, it's you at you stand more than half way up and then the resistance catches on the cable. So, you know the Practical effect is you're doing a quarter squat, which doesn't do anybody any favors the solution on those machines is to back away when you've got the belt around your waist walk backwards and in my case, I actually have to exit the platform step down from the platform and then the resistance is not just pulling down, but it's also pulling forward.

[00:09:50] Which isn't entirely a bad thing. In fact, there are some advantages to it one of which is it teaches you to pop your hips through right at the top [00:10:00] in the same fashion. You would when locking out a squat for a deadlift know what I do is I use an ultra wide stance and I have a 12-inch box that I squat down to which.

[00:10:14] In my case is quite a bit below parallel, maybe two three inches, I would imagine for most people for most anatomies you would that would also be a below parallel box. Now here's the thing because of the way that the weight is being pulled both forward and down. A hundred pounds feels like 500 you really only need a little bit of weight.

[00:10:41] And this is a fortunate thing because most belt squat machines. At least the one that I'm working on the plate loaded variety. You can't add a ton of weight a little bit of weight goes a long way and you will ultimately be able the goal is to squat off that box. [00:11:00] Really significant amount of weight.

[00:11:02] I can't tell you pound-for-pound with the carryover is that I worked that out yet, but it's quite a bit. So I would suggest a seven five three reps bread. Obviously increasing the weight wherever possible. So that's your max effort movement on the squat day your other day. You are going to have the bar on your back, but it's going to be speed Day meaning.

[00:11:28] You're going to take about 50% of your one rep max and you're going to squat on to a parallel box 10 to 12 sets of just two repetitions with about 30 to 45 seconds in between sets. Obviously that is being done to increase acceleration of the barbell which gets slower right the more the heavier weights that we have.

[00:11:57] So at the end of the day, [00:12:00] you have your main move the deadlift which in my case anyway is a fantastic carry over to the squat much more so than vice versa you were able to do heavy box squats without a bar on your back. So there's no vertical compression of the spine and you're able to stay proficient.

[00:12:20] However with the barbell. on a lighter speed day. That's one of the things about power lifting. You can't, you know, not perform the lift in my opinion in some form or fashion at least on a weekly basis because like any other skill you need practice to make perfect. So that would be my recommendation on how to squat Peak both lifts rather.

[00:12:49] You can make minor variations, but so far that's working. Well and just fantastic for me. I appreciate your question. I'd love to hear back from you. Here's another question [00:13:00] for that question. And then we get to Fred farmington's question that he just posted on Facebook. When's the last time you didn't Squat and deadlift?

[00:13:10] I made some so I remember early on in my lifting career. and I call it a career because I was always building and progressing I had hard time getting over 405 in the. Yep, even though my deadlift was going up. I was actually doing super sets of squats and deadlifts like trying to transpose and transfer the progress to The Squat and then I stop squatting for a while.

[00:13:39] I still dead lifted but I just started doing more heavy leg pressing and I use different machines. Not just the 45 degree the cantilever machine and I just started doing a lot of heavy leg press. Am I dead lift continue to grow and I probably didn't squat for a year. And when I came back [00:14:00] and started squatting after that, I started out surprisingly stronger than I thought I was going to be like I didn't lose that much.

[00:14:09] I didn't lose that much. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about. That's exactly what I'm talking about. You have the deadlift as a main driver and you're working your legs hard, you know elsewhere you're not going to lose much and you may put some. Yeah, so there you go. So take some time off and and don't be afraid because you'll actually make recover and make progress in your off time when your body says I'm not ready to move forward.

[00:14:34] So this question comes from Fred Farmington. He said thoughts on PPC 157 patches for a stubborn lower back. I'm sorry winter II really can't even read that. Can you say it winter strain? How am I? Okay, and the problem is. I can't I can't see anything right now have been using. Dr. McGill's big three it works.

[00:14:58] I've tried it before as well as [00:15:00] bands and various body weight core exercises. Okay. So here's the real question can be PC be delivered through the skin. We know it can be delivered orally believe it or not. Right? Okay, but can it be delivered through the skin and the peptide is a much larger peptide than what we know.

[00:15:21] Can get through the skin without an injection, so. If you asking the question is bpc good for a lower back injury. Yes are bpc patches good for a lower back injury. We don't know because there's no evidence that bpc can get through the skin from a transdermal environment even with electrophoresis, which is actually a patch that uses an electric charge to disrupt the stratum corneum.

[00:15:48] So yes, bpc is good for lower back. I don't know anything about bpc patches. I ain't saying what do you think Rob? I would concur and especially given the fact that [00:16:00] bpc is orally active. Yeah, you know, right I mean so, you know that that's about as non-invasive as it gets there and there is an Oral B.

[00:16:10] Pc product made by dr. William seeds. And yes, and and it's called body protection complex. I think he calls it a something like that. It's on Facebook a lot. It's out there. If you go to dr. Seeds.com, I believe is the website you can buy orally active orally real bpc 157 as a stranded protein.

[00:16:34] And it's cleaved in the gut and turns into bpc 157 it works but patches. No, there's no evidence that a peptide that big can get through the skin. None. Yep. Yep, generally speaking anything with a molecular weight of let's say 500 in under can be carried through the skin right, but often times it takes a strong carrier like DMSO something something more than just adhesive Mike cleave Al.

[00:17:00] [00:17:00] Says I listen to your answer last week concerning steroids. Do you really think people can use them safely? And isn't it? True? The younger people tolerate the sides better? What do you have to look out for if you are older? Okay, so a couple different questions there with respect to the first question.

[00:17:20] Do I think they can be used safely? I don't just think I know and and I'll back that up with this. You know uncontestable fact, there are millions of men at this point including a lot of grandfather's that around doctor prescribed HRT, including you know, testosterone so, you know, obviously nobody's killing over dead.

[00:17:49] This is kind of the best of boast more Both Worlds, right you get your androgens and you also get to be supervised by a doctor to make sure. But you are not running [00:18:00] into problems, which I'll speak to in a bit. What was the second question? Hold on. I was I was actually reading the next question here sit tight.

[00:18:08] Just give me one sec. Yeah, sorry about that. He said what about older people like isn't it? True that younger people tolerate the sides better? And what do you have to look out for if you're older? Yeah, that's a really good question. You know, I would say two things number one. Would be that.

[00:18:28] older white males. the show an increased incidence of having high red blood cell counts. Okay. This is variously referred to as I've heard the doctors refer to what is hemoglobin and hematocrit, but the bottom line is about the same so bad that the test you did the same. So the bottom line is the viscosity of the blood.

[00:18:55] It's getting a little bit thicker. Obviously that puts you at higher risk of [00:19:00] stroke heart attack Etc. Although you know to be totally honest. I haven't heard of any great incidents of that but be that as it may that's something that regular blood tests only can catch it's not something you feel and so the the solution is.

[00:19:20] Incredibly simple give blood every couple months. That's it or you get a prescription from your doctor for a therapeutic for Mon Ami same difference. They just in the case of a therapeutic phlebotomy. They can't use the blood and they throw it away. That would be one major problem another that and I know this has been a really highly contested topic but for my money.

[00:19:44] All these Auntie estrogens guys that are taken, you know, unless there's some really big incidents of you know, pre-existing guy. No, I would not touch Auntie estrogens. I'll tell you why they could and [00:20:00] I learned this the hard way when over-the-counter strong anti estrogen came into play IE a TD.

[00:20:08] They can crush your libido and Crush. Your HDL levels. It is not a pleasant thing. I can also distinctly remember my tendons for lack of a better term where brittle I remember being on a TD and just like reaching. To adjust my car radio, you know the knobs and feeling a pulling pulling on the tendons.

[00:20:35] So look generally speaking. I think Auntie estrogens are a bad idea. Also, you know Carl and I you were Carl you and I were talking about this before we got on the air. It's more than testosterone today and HRT doctor can also legally prescribed you década rambling and or anavar to [00:21:00] treat an injury.

[00:21:01] So it's test its Deca it samovar. If you can afford it. It's growth hormone. Now, we've got the peptides coming into play. I would tell you if you're a male that's suffering from all of the symptoms of low testosterone. You would be crazy not to take advantage of what medical science can now do for you.

[00:21:27] So in in summary, the safety margin is there the possibilities certainly are there. You know do the risks increase with age maybe a little bit. But if I don't if you're under the care of a doctor, that's one thing, you know, if you're if you're 40 plus and you're still using Trend a bombs and all that other stuff that dramatically increases your reckless in other words, you're being Reckless right in the fluid retention and and the high blood [00:22:00] pressure that goes along with it.

[00:22:01] That's quite another so. You know as long as you make that distinction, I think you can make a solid educated decision. So here's here's my two CC's on this. Okay? Yeah, if you have side effects, you're using too much. That's number one. And when you're young you're stupid and you don't care but when you're older you care so you don't use too much.

[00:22:22] If you have side effects of spillover. There's more than the body can use. So it's like causing Havoc. They're not getting gains from that excess either. So that's that's number one. Number two the big problem with with hormone replacement therapy and an older men, which has been evidenced in a lot of different research out.

[00:22:44] There is that it makes you feel good quite often before your body catches up, you know, there's a lot of old guys out there that don't do anything. They don't they don't walk they don't train they [00:23:00] sit in the sofa. They go out to dinner every night. They're retired and then they go. Oh, I'm gonna get on testosterone they get on testosterone and you know, three months later.

[00:23:09] They have a problem. They have an injury who knows what it is, right testosterone raises your willingness to do what is considered riskier Behavior. But if your body is not up to the job, you're going to get injured number one number two, if all of a sudden you went from not moving for 15 years.

[00:23:30] And really not even having a libido for 10 of them and not even wanting sex for five and all of a sudden you're like damn. I want to have sex and I want have a lot of sex Let's Get Busy. Well, guess what? You're not up for that either right start out by walking around the block 10 times and not getting winded and then go 20 times and not get winded and slowly progress because the brain goes I feel 20 again, but the body goes I don't.

[00:23:58] Don't make me do that [00:24:00] stuff because I'm gonna hurt myself the brain to no. No because we believe we can we can we're young again. The body's gone. Oh, I'm not really young again. We're gonna get hurt. So don't be stupid. Don't if you're using drugs and they're causing side effects use lower doses, you know, you can take 25 30 milligrams of trend.

[00:24:23] You know once every week week and a half and blend it in with your test and I take that back. I don't like Trend because it's it's harsh in general, but you could actually take a dose of trend. That doesn't raise your blood pressure. That's my point. You actually could yeah, I would concur with all of that.

[00:24:41] I think you learn as time goes on at least I have with HRT less is more. Less is more and you know you start to pay attention to the rest of your fundamentals and I think to your point that you made on an earlier show Carl a lot of guys start out on [00:25:00] HRT feeling much better. But then later on there are issues right with the downstream metabolism.

[00:25:09] Yeah. I just thought I just thought started using HCG again get a load of this. I stopped using my armor thyroid. I don't need thyroid property. No, because HCG stimulates it looks like thyroid stimulating hormone everything right? I mean, it's like it works from the base up, you know, it's like it's like the awesomest peptide in the world and it is a peptide.

[00:25:33] Cool, we're gonna take a quick commercial break. We have a lot more questions to answer and we will get them answered. I'm going to stop the music. I got it. I got to go through this slowly. Stop the music. It's working. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Now. I'm going to. Jolly Carl back up and we'll be right now.

[00:25:52] Yeah, right. Wow. Wow, go away fat Carl. I [00:26:00] was felt like that as young kid to wow. I see it doesn't it looks like two different people. I lost it in my teens. I was fat. I was fat when I was a young guy and and living in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn up until the time. I was probably about 12 or 13 years old.

[00:26:16] Then we moved to Queens and I was I was able to get out more like my father didn't want me playing in the neighborhood because it was dangerous back then the neighborhood. It was all it was all junkies and hoodlums and you know people getting shot all the time and all that sort of stuff. So I pretty much stayed in the house watch television did homework, you know, played and 1/8 and between all that.

[00:26:37] I used to drink milk by the half gallon my father you say to me call slow down. We're gonna have to buy a cow. But yeah, and then when I moved to Queens I was able I started playing handball and all the fat came off was amazing and then I got fat again when I had children anyway, okay. So let's get back to the questions at hand here.

[00:26:59] So this one [00:27:00] comes from Earl Mick drivel drivel. He says I listened to your segment a few weeks ago about depression pretty sure I have it and there's no logical reason for it either. I'm young. I have good grades in school. I'm very healthy. I have lots of friends. I have a wonderful girlfriend.

[00:27:17] Why do I feel down all the time? Yeah, and you know when I got this question, it caused me to think about my own personal situation. It was almost as if that was me talking right before everything went down a lot of bad things. But the long the short story is this it can be anything. From a chemical imbalance that you may have inherited to I'm firmly convinced that stress and your environment can deplete vital neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin, etc.

[00:28:00] [00:27:59] Etc. It may also be this and this was this was my case. I had lived my entire life. Two speeds Full Throttle and idle there was no in between it was always one of the other and depressive episodes to me were nothing new but here's the thing. I just figured that was how life was for everybody, you know way up and way down and nothing in the middle.

[00:28:32] So I'll relate my personal story and then we'll get back to you. Hopefully how it can help you. Was it the last Sunday in January 2011 and went into my basement to work out take some frustrations out? Shortly, thereafter, I almost did it given my episode with Rando, which you all know about. What you may [00:29:00] not know is that when I was discharged from that.

[00:29:06] I walked out into the night with nowhere to go because I was handed a restraining order my my ex-wife. Who changed the locks on my home the one I paid her and every other bill for? And I had nowhere to go. I also had nowhere to go to work why my company eventually heard about what happened? And they put me out on disability.

[00:29:36] So I want you to picture this now. A guy that's gone to work got up every day at 4:30 went to work came home. Got up the next day and get it all over again. You have nowhere to go can't go to work. You can't go home. Everybody was scared as hell. And [00:30:00] I can't blame them because I put I pulled an escape attempt from the hospital and I would have been successful but my getaway car never came to get.

[00:30:12] And then things get worse in quick succession. I'm called by my company to say you don't have a job anymore shortly after that. My ex-wife filed for divorce shortly after that. There was a suicide in the house. I was living it. so all of these things and more. horrible things that I can't relate to you happened to me and I was at the end of my rope.

[00:30:50] I firmly believe that because of the stress I was. I really believe that. But here's the thing [00:31:00] depression. Depression magnifies, whatever issues you think you have to the point where you think they're unsolvable my specific comment to my dad. I'll never forget this. I remember sitting on the edge of the bed in the hotel that I was in.

[00:31:21] And my dad to come out to sea. And I said Dad. I just don't see a way out of this. And looking back. I mean it was ludicrous, you know, there's nothing nothing. That can't be fixed. Unless you're dead. Nobody's coming back from death and sadly enough. I want it's a lawyer. That's a long-term solution to a short-term problem.

[00:31:49] Yeah. And sadly enough that crap Lexapro that they tried putting me on made me suicidal for the first and only time in my life [00:32:00] and I'm the last you know, even that even given all of that Carnage. I'm the last guy that has anything to think, you know to be depressed about because I had a wonderful son, right if nothing else.

[00:32:15] That's what I had to live. But I got down to to a period of time where. It felt like my problems they could not be solved. I couldn't see coming back from it. Whatever real problems I had when I was done worrying about those I went on and worried about imaginary problems playing the what if game.

[00:32:39] Oh my God, you know, what if this happens what if that happens? and. I needed help. And I finally went to get it and I sat down in this office. They gave me a big long questionnaire, you know with. [00:33:00] Checking off the box for every question. And ultimately what I found was in addition to the existing issues that I had was that I was suffering from PTSD.

[00:33:12] Matter of fact the threshold and the questionnaire was if you check if you score a 13. you're suffering from PTSD. I scored a 26 out of a possible 30. And through a lot of help. and a lot of soul searching. I finally got better the point I'm making is this. your depression. Is probably magnified it's probably magnifying your problem.

[00:33:45] So that you to think there's no way out of this. It's not real. I'm not saying people who are not problems. They do we've all got problems. But unless you're dead. There is a way out there [00:34:00] will always be a way out. There's always tomorrow, but you can't see that when you're depressed. get help and keep.

[00:34:11] The people that ultimately succumbed to depression have stopped trying and that is the difference. So I need you to keep trying and if you need help or you just want somebody to talk to get in touch with me, I'll be happy to listen and sometimes that's the best thing you do you can do is just, you know, pour yourself out to somebody you don't even know.

[00:34:41] Depressions terrible thing. We'll talk about it a little later on in the episode, but never give up never. Never give up. That's good. I find that people who consider that seriously consider. Everybody's had the [00:35:00] thought of like, what would it be to kill myself like wood. That's yeah, I would solve the problem for the standpoint.

[00:35:05] You're not in the game anymore and you won't notice anything but reality is that you have to feel sorry for yourself and you have to feel like you're a victim of your circumstances and a lot of people are victims of this circumstance. Don't get me wrong. But you have to give in to that you have to give in you have to say I'm a victim.

[00:35:21] I there's I can't fix this and so I'm it's just better off that I just died. The reality is you're not a victim. There are small choices. You can make now that maybe you don't want to make sure you don't want to hurt somebody's feelings or you don't. Let somebody down about something but you know, what if the choice is let somebody else down or kill yourself let them down.

[00:35:43] Yeah, and for everybody that thinks your pain ends if you end it think again because I've been there. And your pain is magnified a thousand times and spread out to everyone around you [00:36:00] your friends your family pet. So pain, doesn't it? Fine, it just has tentacles on the that keep going farther and farther out if you do something stupid.

[00:36:11] John VAR Lo said I tried your progenitor ex after hearing so much about it. You will write I put it on I put on some good size and none of it was around my waist had a great Improvement in mood to you mentioned you were using it in a nun unorthodox way. Can you talk more about this and whether it's working for you?

[00:36:36] Yeah, I don't know if it's unorthodox, but. it's turning out to be surprisingly effective and much more. So when used in discriminately, so let me tell you about let me tell you what I mean. many times were you know training and. We get frustrated that we're not making the progress maybe [00:37:00] that we think we should so we buy a bottle of x.

[00:37:05] And for 30 days we take X. Day in and day out and usually at the end of 30 days we all learn the hard way that X was not the real solution to our problems. what I have learned through trial and error and and most recently as again is the suggestion from one of my. Blueprint bullet and subscribers.

[00:37:29] I have been matching my supplementation to both my diet and my training in it has worked in much better than taking the products in discriminately. Let me give you an example Monday through Friday. I use intermittent fasting but I also keep carbs very low like you do in the anabolic diet 30 grams are under a.

[00:37:55] The problem is and this is anybody that's been on a low carb diet [00:38:00] knows this your recovery suffers and sometimes dramatically. because of that. and low cellular energy your strength also drops and it's horribly so.

[00:38:18] because so given that Dynamic I'm using syntha Jim Monday through Friday. In and around my workouts and even on off days to do two things number one my recovery close right back up through the roof to the point where I'm in there the other day. I did new things. I you know. Had really did really strong negatives.

[00:38:44] I did everything I was supposed to get me sore. I woke up the next day. Literally, I don't feel a thing. My point is maspero simple gym will give you the recovery. Like you're eating a lot and and a lot of carbs [00:39:00] that that what I'm talking about is muscle fullness. Look. The reason it works is it puts cellular energy back into the muscle that's usually depleted not just by the training but the diet.

[00:39:13] on Saturdays and Sundays. I load in progenitor X along with the carbs why it's tailor-made you're supposed to eat a lot of food progenitor Rex makes you hungrier. You're supposed to eat a lot of carbs. If facilitates carbs being stored in the muscle as glycogen versus stored as fat around your waist.

[00:39:36] The Tagalongs are. We all know creatine works better in an environment where right insulin is high and it's pushing things into muscle cells the various amino acids Etc. There are anti-inflammatories like Lex Ogen and the are isomer of lipoic acid something else that assists in glucose disposal.

[00:40:00] [00:40:00] As a result of that big weekend load lot of a lot of calories a lot of carbs a lot of water a lot of creatine. I am strongest on Mondays and consequently I put my heaviest barbell work Finn by the time Friday rules rolls around I've lost five or so pounds, right? And while you may not be as strong as is on Monday.

[00:40:25] You make a simple adjustment with your training. That's when you do your bodyweight work, right everything you do 5 pounds lighter is going to be stronger Jen's dip. One legged body weight squats handstand push ups, etc, etc. So what I'm telling you and summaries this whether it's my products or someone else's.

[00:40:47] Matthew them is exquisitely as you can to your training and your diet they will perform miles better than using a product in Descript. [00:41:00] Yeah, great question. Thanks for asking. We're going to take a quick commercial break. We've got next question up is from Seth Rollins when we come back. They tuned you're listening to superhuman radio.

[00:41:12] We shall return

[00:41:16] welcome back. And Coach Rob welcome. So this question comes from? Seth Rollins, and I actually just. I did it's funny question and let me and you'll immediately see the you immediately see the humor in it when you realize that I'm the person reading this question. Seth says where do you stand on training for older folks?

[00:41:44] I'm thinking he's gonna say like 80 and 90 like, you know, right. I mean some 160 and up. Thanks Seth. Thanks, bro. Thanks. I guess I go. I'll go ahead and take that AARP membership now. [00:42:00] Yeah, you know, it's a it's a funny question. But at the same time it's a really good one, right because we spoke before about think a 50 year old man who pulled over 600 pounds at the r800 something crazy at the Arnold recently.

[00:42:22] I also spoke. What it was like for me, you know 30 years ago when I was a young man, it was it was inconceivable. That a sixty-year-old be in the gym at least doing anything right serious with the weights. you walk into Jim's today and it's been a while since I've been out west in this country, but I've been in a lot of gyms and.

[00:42:52] There are 50 60 and 70 year olds still pushing very respectable weights. So [00:43:00] what I'm saying is a lot of this boils down to expectations. If you if you're 60 years old and you think 60 years old and you think the best you can do is walk, you know walk on the treadmill or pedal slowly on a bike.

[00:43:18] Then that's the expectation probably that you're going to fulfill If instead you look at a guy like Louis Simmons who in his 60s was still setting World Records. Then you'll probably fulfill those expectations now and real quick and while that may be an outlier, right? It doesn't mean that you can't be 60 and 70 and still and not still be strong.

[00:43:42] But it may take a little more work than it did when you were in your 20s and 30s. Right, right and I can talk about funny I can distinctly remember this thought when I was 20 years old and competing. I remember thinking, [00:44:00] you know when I'm 40, I'll probably just kind of downshift. I might not even be training anymore at all.

[00:44:07] I might just be you know, trying to help some of the younger kids. I literally had that thought, you know, 40 years old man. That was 10 years ago. Today my mindset is we're setting PRS. I'm not even thinking about age. I'm going to the gym when I'm done here and I'm setting new PRS and I do that on a regular basis.

[00:44:30] And again, I think that gets back to you expectations. Now, I will concede that in general recovery. Ability is much slower as you age. And consequently, I think. the de-facto training frequency for people that maybe just want to play it safe is twice a week and that doesn't necessarily mean needs to be heavy twice a week can a one heavy [00:45:00] session and one light session would you recommend doing a whole body session if you're just training twice a week?

[00:45:06] Yeah or even a split. Um, you know, I think back to York's heavy medium light program. That was so successful for so many years in this country. Nobody even talks about that anymore, right? You know that certainly worthy of exploring whether you're young or old but I would think even more so if you're asked for tea, right I am also long said that.

[00:45:37] Bodyweight training becomes much more important as you age why it's not as tough on the joints it strengthens all of the underlying tissues the tendons the ligaments the burst of the fascia and it is about as authentic as it comes and when I say authentic, I mean building real [00:46:00] functional strength, the question becomes the question is not.

[00:46:05] Is a bodyweight training or Barbara three? No. A mix of both is best and I think using your age to establish a percentage on body weight training is is appropriate in my case. I'm 50 years old about half of the movements I do or still heavy barbell work the other half our body weight movements or some combination of body weight movements in ways such as.

[00:46:33] Heavy weighted dips or chin-ups. So long story short adjust your expectations and adjust them upwards and do not look back. Do not think for a second that you're old. You need to think the way I'm thinking you go to the gym to set PRS and secondly, you may have to adjust your chaining frequency.

[00:46:58] That also does not [00:47:00] mean you revise expectations that we're still setting PRS and finally use your age as a percentage of body weight work it will only benefit you. You know, I've had to relegate myself to machines for the past year and a half because as my foot got worse and worse heavy most heavy barbell work requires a good ground base, and my left foot was not cooperating for you.

[00:47:27] And so I slowly moved to machines and but I know that once I start doing the ground based work again, I'll be there because I've now maxed out on most of the machines that I use on a day-in and day-out basis, right? And so like a lot of them. I have one plate left. Like I just don't want to go there because I feel like I'm just going to keep working.

[00:47:49] You know, it gives me gives me some room to grow so to speak but and I have to get back to barbells where I can load. More weight is some machines that I can load [00:48:00] more weight on by pinning plates to them. But the reality is that I'm sure that I wanted once I get back to training with the bar that all that strength I've acquired with machines will translate over it's going to take some time but it will translate over and sometimes taking off from like I'm training every third day right now because I'm focusing on strengths now, right?

[00:48:24] So I'm actually having two days off and I'm going to slowly start doing cardio on those two days like yesterday. I walked for 15 minutes on the treadmill. Wow, right? And it felt good. My foot didn't feel horrible. Let's put it that way. So we have a question. I'm sorry. I was just going to say you don't you take 2-3 days off in between that's about twice a week.

[00:48:44] Yeah, right. Yeah. I instinctively do this. I'll train every other day for a long while and then I'll start to feel. Haggard buy it. I'll start to notice that I'm not recovering fast enough and then I'll start training every third day for a while and [00:49:00] just let my body kind of rebound. So David Whiteside Thompson says, do you know when Predator is going to have synth engine back in stock?

[00:49:08] Apparently they can't keep it in stock, huh? Yeah, it's been sold out for a while. I do know for a fact they reordered. I don't know when it will be. It's probably best to email predator on that. But yeah sold out and. You know, it's just that should tell you something, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's right.

[00:49:33] So a lot of people find out find out the hard way when they come off which is something of a difference it makes right. Mickey Savannah which says if I want to do strongman. How does my training need to change or does it yeah, you need to lift those things that they lift and strongman competitions right unique Stones.

[00:49:57] You need you need, you know [00:50:00] wooden those that they make them out of metal to those Press Bar the log bars and need all that stuff. Right? So, you know, my thoughts are pretty much in line with that. There are traditional lifts like the squats or deadlifts. Certainly, you know your heavy pressing and rolling movements that are going to that are going to help but you absolutely need to practice the event specific lifts.

[00:50:28] I'll call them and it's everything that you just said, you know, it's rope pulling its Stone lifting its Farmers walks etcetera Etc. There are no I don't train strong man, but I do know I do train a couple people that do train strongmen. And here's what I see. There are two things that are dramatically underestimated by your rookie strongman competitor and they are number one grip work and number two the heart and lungs to [00:51:00] pull pull off a lot of those events.

[00:51:02] So concerning grip work. Think about it. Think about the. The events that I just listed Stone lifting Farmers walks rope pulls everything heavily heavily involved your grip the best way to train grip in addition to doing those actual events are with captains of crush grippers and there the gold standard in this area.

[00:51:28] They make think they make eight of them now, but. You know generally speaking. There's the numbers one through four grippers. I think the number one it takes 80 or 90 pounds of clothes at the number to 200 pounds. I forget what three and four are but there were only like three men in the world that can close the number for couple different ways.

[00:51:53] You can train these one is obviously for reps. The other is holding. It shut. With one hand [00:52:00] closing it with one hand holding it shut for time. And then the third you can do negatives, whereby you close the grippers with both of your hands and then slowly do it- with one. I trained all three of those methods one thing I will tell you is don't do what I did.

[00:52:20] I got those grippers in for the first time. I went crazy with. And for the next two weeks my hand was permanently in this position because the tendons were so screwed up. So go slow with it. You will find that. About a twice a week training frequency is about right or at least it is for me with the grippers with respect to your heart and lungs.

[00:52:46] You really need to be in good cardiovascular. But anaerobically versus aerobically, let me tell you what I mean by that. You can [00:53:00] jog all day long, but you're going to get to your strong man. And you're going to guess out because you might have good aerobic conditioning, but you really need good.

[00:53:10] What I call anaerobic aerobic conditioning and that is heavy lifts. Static holds are great for this while you're moving. While your feet are moving and look to double the amount of time. The actual strongman event requires of you. So if it takes you. three minutes to lift and put all the stones up on those various Heights that they have in the event shoot for being able to do that for six minutes in training.

[00:53:45] You're going to need it. It's a long day of strong man. And those are the two things rip work in an aerobic conditioning that are unfortunately underestimated by your first time first time event. [00:54:00] I had question. I actually have a grippers here, but I never use them. They're 200 Pounders. And yeah, I mean it's work to close them.

[00:54:11] I should be heroes are often while I'm sitting here. Yeah, and that's the thing you can do. Wherever right at work in the car, if you want to do it while you train, I like to do it while I train but you can do it on your off days to you can do it anywhere. So get a pair of drippers work them and work them hard and just like everything else be Progressive look to look to be able to close the next next paragraph papers.

[00:54:38] We're going to take a last commercial break when we come back. We have the blueprint tip of the day. This is this. The shows but I can't I I turn up the volume on like is the music there. Yeah. Oh, this is so cool. Everything is working today. This is awesome. But yeah, I think that. We're going to take a quick commercial break.

[00:54:56] We'll be right back. Coach Rob register.com is what I wanted to say. Go there [00:55:00] today read some material join the blueprint Army get your copy of the blueprint bulletin every single time. You need it in your inbox be stronger. We'll be right back. Welcome back.

[00:55:17] So we have the blueprint tip of the day. What is what is the blueprints of the day rub the tip of the day unfortunately as to do with depression and the fact that I may have lost another family member to it.

[00:55:38] so Saturday. I bring my taxes up to my cousin John. Who is the same cousin by the way that opened his house to me? During my divorce. and in the course of those discussions. He asked me have [00:56:00] you have you heard or seen from Patrick? Patrick is another cousin. that John. Opened his home to who's going through a really rough time.

[00:56:16] Patrick didn't show up to work on Monday. and a hardware store where. he was very popular both with the people. He worked with in customers who are coming in that are very distraught. Because Patrick was nowhere to be found. And he remains. at Large. despite a state police door-to-door search. dog tracking dog being involved.

[00:56:55] and a state police helicopter looking for him.

[00:57:00] [00:57:01] He when they look for his phone they found. Actually in his home where he was living. And his car was still parked there as well and I got up on the news wire here just a few moments ago during the commercial break and he still missing.

[00:57:27] What the newspapers didn't report. Was that he left a suicide note? and the note said. That he had made some bad decisions in his life. And there was no way he could fix them. The note further said that he had been struggling. With two people in his mind. the good man and the bad man. [00:58:00] and that he could no longer stop the bad man.

[00:58:04] From thinking and doing bad things.

[00:58:10] I didn't know Patrick really well.

[00:58:15] He apparently was a wonderful guy. Very soft-spoken as I said, he had a lot of friends they love them where he worked. But he had issues. Like a lot of us have issues and. as John slid that go to cross to me and I read it I couldn't help think about. my own situation. in the fact that it took many years to you know to get back on my feet and be the person that I know that I am today.

[00:59:00] [00:59:00] I said John, you know, what went wrong. He said Robert. I just think he stopped he stopped fighting. He said you need to push through and do what you did which was keep fighting. So I'm going to share with you if you're struggling with depression right now. One of the things that helped me and helped me immensely.

[00:59:28] I burn I watch this so much. I burned it into my subconscious. It was the fight scene from Rocky. We're Rockies fighting Apollo Creed. He's basically out on his feet. He's getting beaten to death. He's bleeding. He has Cuts around his eyes. His eyes are so small. They're swollen shut, you know the deal he's getting knocked around like no tomorrow.

[01:00:00] [01:00:00] But then he does something something that's very significant. He puts his gloves up. And he says bring it.

[01:00:15] There are times in life where you're going to get knocked out. but as the old saying goes. It's not how many times you get knocked down. It's how many you get back up. unfortunately. for Patrick and praying this isn't the case, but unfortunately, I think he chose not to get back up. don't you ever.

[01:00:43] Fail to get back up. Never give up. Never. Winston Churchill's finest speech was nine words. I want you to picture this as he walks up to the podium over [01:01:00] graduating military class. The speech was as follows never give up never give up. Never give up. Rolled his notepad up walk back to his seat.

[01:01:17] Nine words, I guarantee you every person in attendance at that speech remembers them.

[01:01:26] Please if you're struggling. Never give up ever.

[01:01:35] Good stuff and then argue so you say you so that he wrote it he wrote a suicide note, but you don't think he is killed himself yet. They just haven't found them. But let's be honest. Yeah, you don't write a suicide note and and then come back three years later or whatever. You know, he left on foot the you know, there's a bike [01:02:00] trail that's around there.

[01:02:01] It runs parallel to a river. I don't know. I'm sure they've been searching it. But you know, let's be honest. It's still really cold up here at night is like 17 degrees last night. What nationality are your people? Are you wish yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah pair your roof from that part of the country.

[01:02:25] And you know, if you look at the pictures Carl or family picture stoic snoek people very very simple. And you know, there's I did a show with Joel green that shows the evidence of the transgenerational epigenetic imprints that died. And especially famine imprint people with after the first famine in the Russian Ukraine area here where they will literally that were people selling [01:03:00] body parts as food on the streets.

[01:03:02] Think about how how bad it has to be where you would actually consider buying a frozen body part taking it home making stew out of. Think about that that this was going on and generations after that. That's when all the Depression started. You know that the whenever you look at areas of the world that experienced famine severe famine the alcohol rate in men and the depression rate and women is like in the 40% I'll huge you Ireland.

[01:03:37] They had to famine. One caused by the Queen of England and one that an actually occurred and and Irish, you know, there's a high level of alcoholism among the population the men they're not they don't call it. Alcoholism. They just call it the Irish curse. That's all they call it the same thing with the those Slavic areas.

[01:03:58] They're rusher the Ukraine and [01:04:00] know there is there they have a lot of depression. They have a lot of alcohol in it. And it's really a result of famine. It really is. This is not this this pure pure evidence to show this pure evidence. That's interesting. I didn't know that I can vividly recall looking at those pictures and asking my grandfather as a grandpa.

[01:04:21] Why is everyone so, you know stoic and I remember he just Shrugged his shoulders and he said life was really hard. Yeah. so. You know is there at your not a component yet convinced there is but it doesn't change the fact but you know what? I mean, you know what the did, you know, the difference is life was hard but there was no hope right that is all right.

[01:04:47] Exactly. So there's a lot of there's a lot of people whose lives have really horrible. Like there's people who've watched their parents get slaughtered in a home invasion and thirty forty years later. They have great families and they [01:05:00] but when there's no hope when life is hard and life is grinding you up and you can't wake up with any kind of optimism to say today might be different right that little sliver of ultimate today might be different something may happen to change it.

[01:05:15] I may get lucky. I'm a fun. But when you live in a country where they are not only hard but there's no hope of any change. Well then people develop depression. They've developed developed a horrible horrible feeling about life and sometimes it just takes one conversation and you are the person.

[01:05:37] That at my lowest in my divorce you said to me and I'll never forget it. Things are going to turn around and you're going to see you're going to get dramatically better right and and boom shortly after that my wife. Walks into my life, right and she has made it just [01:06:00] it's a complete 180 as to where I was so if you know, if you're in the same situation look you need to do the same thing bring it right because the next day can bring change in good change of that.

[01:06:14] Have you ever seen that movie with Giancarlo giannini? I think that's his name the Italian actor. Where he's oh It's a Wonderful Life or some like that way. He's in a concentration camp with his son. Yeah and how he paints everything like it's a game and it's fun and you know what? I mean? It's like like your the troubles in your life for a matter of perspective.

[01:06:37] It's not that I'm saying. They're not happening. Right, but you have a choice and how you respond to these things everybody. And I'm not saying you shouldn't choose to be to be to wallow in your pain and feel sad. I'm not saying that but I'm just saying acknowledge that there's a choice. We had a we had we had a guy on yesterday's show.

[01:06:58] Yes. It was Monday [01:07:00] been errands, right who at the at the bottom the lowest point of his life. He was bedridden for two years and he had such agonizing pain where he laid in bed and he actually. Allowed himself to disconnect from his pain. physically his brain thought about pain and started to make the diskin.

[01:07:21] I don't feel that out and he literally successfully disconnected from his pain for two or three days until he started to notice the IV bag in his room and he remembered. Oh wait, I'm sick. And you thought of coming back and it's not because his pain was psychosomatic because he recognized that his mind was so strong that it had the ability.

[01:07:41] Not to respond to the pain not to manifest the pain physically and that change that that moment changed everything for him moving forward. He realized then that he could get better and he started doing the things that made him better eating differently moving differently sleeping better all the things that he needed to do.

[01:08:00] [01:07:59] Yep. So, you know, your mind is a very powerful thing. You're not you're not a victim of your your thoughts. You are the you are the originator of your thoughts. And tomorrow's a new day. Yes, and since this show ends now we can get started on tomorrow now. All right, great show Coach Rodriguez.com go there check it out.

[01:08:21] Yo, Rob some love. He puts a lot of work into all these shows so that all of you can benefit and we'll see everybody tomorrow with more superhuman ready tomorrow. We're actually going to be talking about histamines and how the diet affects histamine production because you know autoimmune disorders are a result of an immune system that's gone.

[01:08:39] Awry if you're. Is causing an immune reaction and you're ignoring it. You're just going to have an autoimmune disorder eventually. Yeah, we're going to talk tomorrow with Sean Bean about diets that affect histamine. So you won't want to miss that then Thursday. We have the ReNew Life RX show. I don't know we're talking yet about with Adam Lamb and then Friday we have [01:09:00] the pep talk with dr.

[01:09:01] Carl page and we're going to be talking about nootropic peptides peptides that actually make your brain. Wake up and fly right you can forward that's going to be a cool when I Rob thanks for being here today. I do take care here by [01:10:00] tomorrow.