[00:00:00] [00:00:00] Carl Lanore: [00:00:00] I'm making a promise to everybody in this audience that if I happen to come down with coronavirus, I will continue to work. I mean that I really mean that. I'll come into this office and I'll do my show because I can't contaminate my guests. Uh, even if I have a difficult time breathing, um, which isn't new to me anyway cause I have terrible allergies.

[00:00:19] Welcome back to another episode of super human radio. Today is March 17th, 2020. We are at the height of frenzy here in the United States with the Corona virus. We're going to talk about that during today's show because of a couple of questions. Today is the blueprint power hour with my cohost, coach Rob Gregor.

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[00:02:02] Show them some love, and now without further delay, let's roll his music calling all

[00:02:07] Coach Rob Regish: [00:02:07] blueprint army,

[00:02:08] Carl Lanore: [00:02:08] fall in line. It's time

[00:02:10] Coach Rob Regish: [00:02:10] for the blueprint power hour with coach Rob

[00:02:13] Carl Lanore: [00:02:13] Regus on the superhuman

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[00:02:20] Carl Lanore: [00:02:20] I don't coach what's going on, man.

[00:02:22] Coach Rob Regish: [00:02:22] I am doing fine. It is certainly a different world, right? Even then, one week ago, but, um. This too shall pass and we'll get into that.

[00:02:33] Carl Lanore: [00:02:33] And those of you out there who people are actually saying something that I think is quite naive, do you think the stock market will recover?

[00:02:40] That's like saying, do you think you'll ever drive your car again because you ran out of gas? Of course the stock went. In fact, those of you who haven't bought stock and want to. Maybe not right now, but in about two weeks when we hit bottom, that's the time to buy. Boeing stock is well into $300 [00:03:00] a share.

[00:03:00] It won't be there ever again. I mean, now is the time to buy stock, not to be afraid of the market, cause it always, always, always comes back.

[00:03:10] Coach Rob Regish: [00:03:10] Oh, there you go. Yeah.

[00:03:12] Carl Lanore: [00:03:12] I'm wearing my be strong bands after training back today. As you can see, my upper arms and my legs. Have changed in such a short time, so dramatically that I, if you are thinking about these blood flow restriction band, stop thinking and get them.

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[00:03:47] Buy Bitcoin. Tommy D says, you know, I'm not as convinced about Bitcoin, Tommy, and I'll tell you why. Um. Bitcoin is based on people buying Bitcoin, and to me that looks [00:04:00] a lot like a Ponzi scheme. It has really no production of anything. It's just the more people buy Bitcoin, the value goes up, and if people started to sell off Bitcoin, the value, the value would go down very, very dramatically.

[00:04:13] I still am afraid of Bitcoin, but it's good if you, I guess if you're going to buy it, is it down right now? Tommy, could you tell me if Bitcoin has dropped along with the coronavirus, because remember Bitcoin started. By the Chinese as a way to get their money out of China and not be under the jurisdiction of the Chinese banking system.

[00:04:33] So w w where is Bitcoin today? Has it dropped? Put that up there. All right, Rob. Sorry about that, man.

[00:04:39] Coach Rob Regish: [00:04:39] No, that's okay. You know your, your point though was well taken. Even if you are not well versed in the market, when do you buy stuff? You know that that's where you save a lot of money. You buy it when it's on sale, and right now it's on sale.

[00:04:57] So, um, you know, certainly do [00:05:00] your due diligence and if you're afraid of individual stocks, then certainly mutual funds. Are exchange traded funds are a great way to get into the entire stock market with very little risks. Okay. Yeah.

[00:05:14] Carl Lanore: [00:05:14] Yup. How are things going with you and Jen? How are things in, uh, in, in, uh, uh, in your home, state and city with what's going on with coronavirus?

[00:05:24] Coach Rob Regish: [00:05:24] Well, in so far as coronavirus it, it's different. Um, I'm right on the line with Connecticut and unfortunately, Connecticut is mandated that all gyms close. Uh, whereas in Massachusetts, gratefully our gym is still open, although, um, they will, they are instituting a 25 person limit in each room, and they have two large rooms.

[00:05:50] So, you know, we're going to go on off hours. And and do our best. We did it yesterday. We got our workouts in and I spoke to the manager and, uh, [00:06:00] this guy's got guts. He said,  he says, I'm not closing. He said, there needs to be some middle ground here. Right? You completely shut down businesses. You shut down the economy.

[00:06:12] Uh, I don't think that's a good idea. I think there is a middle ground like he's proposing. Uh, as far as Jen and I are doing a week ago, unfortunately, Jen found a lump, um, right under her jaw and she saw a couple of doctors. They disagreed on what it was.

[00:06:33] Carl Lanore: [00:06:33] Couldn't you just one call? And we have glands right under there.

[00:06:36] We couldn't be a gland. That

[00:06:38] Coach Rob Regish: [00:06:38] was what the, the latest doctor said. He said, look, it's, um. Not a glare, a lymph node,

[00:06:44] Carl Lanore: [00:06:44] lymph node. Right. And they and lymph nodes get clogged up sometimes.

[00:06:50] Coach Rob Regish: [00:06:50] Right. Which is exactly what he explained. Uh, and many times they self resolve. But, um. To be absolutely [00:07:00] sure she's having a MRI done tomorrow.

[00:07:04] And so, um, you know, we're hoping that that comes out okay.

[00:07:09] Carl Lanore: [00:07:09] And we are too. Uh, okay. So let's get right to the first question. It comes from Sean Clary. Did I say that right? Yeah, no, Craig, I'm sorry, Sean. It's crazy. Uh, and I'm going to read from my document. He says, so it seems the coronavirus thing is getting worse.

[00:07:25] My state just said there could be no more than 25 people in a room at the fitness centers. What's your take on the virus and what am I going to do to keep my gains if I can't hit all my regular scheduled workouts? Why can't you,

[00:07:40] Coach Rob Regish: [00:07:40] you know a word on the coronavirus and how people are reacting? Okay. At least in this country, from what I can see.

[00:07:47] So last Saturday, my wife goes grocery shopping and she calls me almost in tears. Um, and relay the news that the shows were almost, there were absolutely no [00:08:00] toilet paper left and things like tuna and canned goods were all very low. Uh, dogs are acting up. Can I go to a break, Carl?

[00:08:08] Carl Lanore: [00:08:08] No, let's not take a break.

[00:08:10] We'll, we'll just pause. I'll run some music and you go ahead and, and go there. I'm going to put a graph up in the meantime, so this is a good, good place for me to put the graph up when we're talking about coronavirus.

[00:08:20] Coach Rob Regish: [00:08:20] Go ahead. So you know

[00:08:22] Carl Lanore: [00:08:22] the show to, if you want to disappear for a second and do something with the dogs, I'll give you a minute here.

[00:08:27] Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. I'm going to, I'm going to talk a little bit cause you do your thing. So I'm going to put a graph up here real quick cause it's very, very important. Uh, this is from the CDC CDCs on website. As of today. I don't know if you notice it. They have, uh, illnesses that began during this time may not be reported yet, but the reality is several websites that are following Corona virus, new reported cases are showing that it is already starting to drop.

[00:08:57] And this could be a variety of reasons [00:09:00] why it could be because we are taking action. But my guess of why we're already starting to see the curve changing and flattening is because we stopped people coming in from China. In February around February 2nd I believe it was because we were worried that the Chinese will lying to us about the severity of both the virulence and the contagiousness of this virus.

[00:09:30] So we, we that move. And then shortly thereafter we started to stop people coming from other countries that we knew had had a lot of Chinese. Uh, visitors or travel to China. And also we're starting to precipitate a high number of cases. So the reality is that acting early and shutting down travel from outside the United States basically effectively closing our borders, I believe, is going to have the most profound [00:10:00] effect on the United States.

[00:10:01] And I, I really don't believe we're going to see the potential. Of this virus, uh, hitting the numbers that we are being told, it has the potential to hit because of that, because of that. And so we'll say, well, we're going to watch and play it out, but I don't think it's going to get worse. I actually think it's going to start to flatten out already.

[00:10:21] So let's see what happens. What do you think, Rob?

[00:10:24] Coach Rob Regish: [00:10:24] Well, there's going to be a turnaround, no question about it. It'll probably coincide with the warmer weather. Um, and, and, but personally, I considered this panic displayed by people worse than the virus itself up here in the Northeast. I mean, I laugh every time there's, there's a forecast for a snow storm.

[00:10:45] Okay. People rush to the supermarket, they overbuy, you know, canned goods and bottled water. Uh, as if you know, you're going to be stuck in your house for more than three days. But [00:11:00] Rob,

[00:11:00] Carl Lanore: [00:11:00] what is, what is the need for all this toilet paper? What am I missing? Does the majority of our American population literally spend all their time shitting?

[00:11:11] I mean, I'm baffled, like I can understand going out and getting food. And, and really I see people buying crap food. I saw a woman with bags and bags of cheese doodles this morning at the, at the grocery store when I was trying to buy toilet paper, but which we went down to our last five rolls. So we really do need to go buy toilet paper.

[00:11:31] We're not stocking up, I'm just going to buy a single package, but I don't understand like, like diarrhea is not a symptom of this virus. Why are people literally stockpiling toilet paper? I don't get it.

[00:11:46] Coach Rob Regish: [00:11:46] It's, um, I, it's the snow storm effect on steroids. So, you know, look, understand this. There's no shortage in the food supply.

[00:11:58] There's no shortage of toilet [00:12:00] paper or consumer staples. It's just that people are working. People are acting as if the world is ending. Yes. And so you know, you, you talk about the stock market again, looked, we made it through world war war, world war II, Korea, Vietnam, two Gulf Wars, Afghanistan, nine 11 and the great recession.

[00:12:25] Okay. We are going to make it through this. Make no mistake about it. It's just a matter of time. Now. If you really want to stock up on something, I guess, you know, buy bottled water, you can go three weeks or so without food, but only three days without water or far as I know,

[00:12:44] Carl Lanore: [00:12:44] or invest in a good water purifier like the one that we promoted just recently on the show, uh, from clearly filtered that a little.

[00:12:53] A portable, what do you call it? Pitcher. Filter gets even, it gets even pharmaceutical drugs out of your water. [00:13:00] That's all we're using right now. I'm not running out to buy any

[00:13:02] Coach Rob Regish: [00:13:02] water. Yeah, no, I mean, nobody's shoveling the water supply off, you know, to houses, nor is there anything wrong with the water supply.

[00:13:11] So unless you're 65 or older and you've got a compromised immune system, or you've been in contact with, uh, you know, someone that's recently been to China or Italy. I wouldn't worry about it. You know, I would tell you to maintain a top shelf immune system, uh, by getting a lot of sleep, exercise regularly, eat a good diet and consumed known immune boosters.

[00:13:35] Okay. Vitamin C, D, E, and if you're really worried, I guess have something like thymus and alpha one and ELO three seven on him. Now look, as far as. Training goes. It is a great time. This is a great time for any of you that are locked out of the gyms to turn to bodyweight training to see what it can do for you.

[00:13:56] You know, if you've been listening to me over the years, [00:14:00] hopefully you have a copy of convict conditioning or get one fast and you can see the magic that is body weight training. Otherwise, you know, buying a, a trap bar, some floormates and some adjustable dumbbells is going to be your gateway. To a home gym and Hey, given the sparsity of equipment and the fact that those are big basic lifts, maybe a CIN dip station too, you'll probably wind up getting bigger or stronger.

[00:14:28] So, you know, I've talked forever in a day about some of these solutions and now seems to be the perfect time for people. To experiment with them, right? Even abbreviated abbreviated training, you know, uh, if you can only pull one or two workouts a week and they limit you to 45 minutes to an hour at a time, well my God, that might be just what the doctor ordered, you know, um, Hylo.

[00:14:55] Here's the bottom line is, as a superhuman, you should be [00:15:00] acting, I think, like a role model for other people. Would you want to see panic and desperation on the face of law pilot of your plane? Of course not. You know, those people are professionals who maintain their composure even under extreme circumstances.

[00:15:17] I would tell you to do the same thing

[00:15:20] Carl Lanore: [00:15:20] and this is a good time to do GPP work cause you don't need a lot of weight to do that. Grab, grab a set of weights, walk up and down your street. Um, make a makeshift sled and push it. Hell, put your wife in your car and push it down the street. Have her turn it around and drive it back to, I mean, you can do plenty of good work right now.

[00:15:38] You don't need a gym. In fact, I would suggest that you do this and you post it for other people to see what you're doing. Your neighbors will think you're crazy, but then maybe some of them will come and join in with you. Yeah,

[00:15:51] Coach Rob Regish: [00:15:51] find a big enough rock, pick it up and walk around. That's, that's great exercise.

[00:15:57] Carl Lanore: [00:15:57] And if you can only do one thing [00:16:00] to try and protect your health during this virus or any other retrovirus, we've talked about this over and over again, but maybe some people aren't hearing it. And that is, I did a great article that's worth reading urgent, the link between sun exposure and coronavirus.

[00:16:15] Read the article. It's at the bottom of super human radio.net all you need to do is start taking fairly large doses of vitamin D three and I mean large doses, 10 to 20,000 IUs a day for a couple of weeks is not going to hurt you. It's not going to calcify your arteries or all this other BS, but what it will do is it will increase circulating.

[00:16:37] Bioavailable Unbound 25 hydroxy, and that has been shown in numerous studies to stop retroviruses, like Corona, like HIV, like Ebola, like SARS from replicating, and that is why you die from these things. They replicate so fast because they, they harness an enzyme called [00:17:00] reverse transcriptase so that they build themselves into your DNA.

[00:17:04] So every cell in your body ends up making these viruses and you become overwhelmed with them. Your body can't handle them and you die. So vitamin D three has been shown to stop retroviruses from replicating. It's an easy one. The grocery store isn't out of it, I predict. So it's worthy of you going over there and picking it up and start taking 10 to 20,000 I'll use a day now.

[00:17:30] Let it build up in your system and I promise you it will protect you. It will give you some level of protection. And Elisa and I are throwing in a one and a half milligrams of thymus and alpha one every third day and daily injections of LL three, seven and plenty of vitamin D three and I believe that we're doing the right thing to protect our health.

[00:17:50] And you can do the same thing without the fancy

[00:17:53] Coach Rob Regish: [00:17:53] peptides.

[00:17:54] Carl Lanore: [00:17:54] Yeah. Harold Henderson says, I'm interested in buying a gym and wanted your take on [00:18:00] selling supplements there. If you owned a gym, what products would you carry and why? Now's a good time to buy the gym cause they close it down. They're probably afraid that they're going to lose their money.

[00:18:11] Coach Rob Regish: [00:18:11] Yeah, they're on sale too. So, yeah. So this is an interesting question because I don't think it's been asked before. Uh, so my answer for you, I think is going to be two faced here. One is going to cover consumer trends and then what your members really need a, at least the vast majority, and as you're about to find out, they're almost two entirely different things.

[00:18:35] So from a practical perspective, as a gym owner, point of sale, you're up against Amazon and these other online retailers. So in other words, you have to try to get them to buy. Once they walk in the gym and the product is right in front of them, they can hold it in their hand. And there's lots to be said for that.

[00:18:54] Some people really want that. Um, so that's number one. But the bigger question really is [00:19:00] what will they buy? Cause that's going to dictate obviously what you carry. If you look at most gyms that sell supplements, the pattern is very easy to see. Protein powder. And pre-workouts now. It used to be protein pre-workouts and creatine, but creating, now it's such a low cost, you know, everyday item.

[00:19:25] You know, that seems to have gone out the window either. Gym members are using it and have been every day for years. Or they just, you know, some of them don't respond to it so they don't buy it. But almost all gyms are going to carry those two pre-workouts. Protein powders, a few carry some of the BCAA powders and drinks.

[00:19:49] And from what I've seen, uh, they buy a fair number of them, at least in the gyms that, that area now, much as I despise them. [00:20:00] Pre-workout powders dominate the category. So for around 35 to 40 bucks, consumers will buy a tub, and this is becoming more popular. A little rather, they'll pay for a single server, so they'll get to the gym and have a single serving of whatever.

[00:20:20] Um, and so when I asked him about this, most of the members told me that they did that because. They want to try a wide variety of them. It's a way for them to do it. So I would make room certainly for single serving, a single serving doses, whatever you'd like to call it, which are, you know, usually you can make a buck or two month.

[00:20:43] Now the interesting thing is that from what I've seen, consumers actually realize that most of these formulas are the same. It's powder caffeine. Maybe some Hamby, some underdose beta alanine, citrulline or [00:21:00] TMG. Uh, sometimes the main reason though, why they buy these individual single servings, believe it or not, is just to try flavors, try to get a flavor that they like.

[00:21:13] Now as far as the protein goes. Most want way and they're just going to buy on price. One guy at my gym had bitch really buys this crap protein. I simply, because he likes the taste. I forget the name of it. I probably blocked it out of my mind when I picked up a jug and I read the label. Uh, I was absolutely horrified.

[00:21:36] Corn syrup solids, plenty of artificial colors and flavors and get this. Almost as many carbs as protein. The did the damn thing had 15 grams of carbs and allegedly 18 grams of protein per skew. And when you consider, this is the quote unquote fuel that guys use to pull off [00:22:00] yet another, Hey, I'm just gonna wing it again.

[00:22:02] Training session, you quickly realize why they complain that they're not gaining. That is not serious sports nutrition that's playing in the sandbox. That's what I call it. It's just people playing in the sandbox. So if I owned a gym, I would probably carry pre-workouts and protein powder to financial reality would would dictate that I carry a wide variety of those pre-workouts, although I would be a heck of a lot more selective.

[00:22:36] About what's out there at the moment. There are two or three that I think are worth maybe trying. I don't think they're ideal by any means.  but those are the ones that I would carry. Uh, so they can have their protein and their candy coated caffeine, but I would also do something a little different.

[00:22:55] Something that differentiated those people from the [00:23:00] truly serious gym members, or at least the people that are serious about sports nutrition. The very first thing I would do, I would carry bottles of jet alert caffeine pills for about $5 each, and then I'd have a little sign next to it saying, compared to just two capsules of gentler, 400 milligrams of caffeine versus your current pre-workout, and in short order, almost everyone's going to realize they get 95% of the jewel.

[00:23:33] Which is what they're buying the product for, uh, from pennies on the dollar. Caffeine. And something happens at that point. And what happens is this, once they realize that you're telling them the truth, they know you're also looking out for them and they're looking out, you know, you're looking out for their wallet.

[00:23:57] Now, how many retailers are [00:24:00] actually going to do that. Think about that. Not many. Right? So on a separate shelf, I would have bottles of , progenitor, directs tranquility, and any other products that I consider serious sports nutrition. Actually on the synth, the gym, I would have a single serving packet, say trial packets, 15 caps.

[00:24:23] Right. Uh, and tell them to take that, you know, next, next time, after you take your caffeine. Take those 10 or 15 calves before your workout, and you know what? They're going to have one of the best workouts of their life and they're going to experience drug-like recovery. And of course, almost everyone that tried that combo, right, would at that point, realized two things.

[00:24:50] This guy's not just trying to sell me stuff. He's telling me the truth and to real effective supplementation exists. It has [00:25:00] nothing to do with candy coated caffeine, cheap way or trying different flavors if that's what you're into. Fine, I guess, but understand, you're just, like I said, playing in the sandbox, you're not going to get anywhere with that.

[00:25:15] Absolutely nowhere. Of course, a certain percent of your members are always going to think and behave like Quarterman for most people, but the experiments that I'm suggesting. Bargain basement caffeine, a trial pack of synth agenda or something else are easily within reach for most people to write financially.

[00:25:36] And once they see and experience the truth or in themselves, then you've opened up a broader conversation  to, yeah. And let me tell you about the two proteins I carry and why only these two are much superior to the cheaper approach. So here, look, here's the bottom line. You've got to give people what they want.

[00:25:57] I understand that that's reality. [00:26:00] You need to address it. But there is room for both what people want and what they truly need. You know? It's just getting them to see the ladder for themselves. That's the trick to it. So whatever you do, do not exaggerate claims. The supplement industry does enough of that.

[00:26:23] Hmm. And, and give them the most value for their dollar. And that's not always dollar and cents. A lot of times that's some damn good advice on training, supplement, or diet to go along with maybe the pre-workout that they bought from you today. You do those things and you will build a loyal following and a steady gym membership.

[00:26:46] Good

[00:26:47] Carl Lanore: [00:26:47] advice. So Tommy D is asking me. Any new deals on thrive, he has to buy more. I will tell you this. Uh, yes. The deal on thrive right now is you get a three pound tub [00:27:00] for 59 95 including shipping inside the United States with the coupon code compare. But I will also tell you this, that after this last batch has gone, it's gone for good.

[00:27:12] I'm not making any more because it's too much of a hassle. I mean, when you look at the, literally. Couple bucks I make on a three pound jug at this price. I, I've only been doing it because I made a commitment to people, but I, I can't keep doing it. And it's, it's a lot of work and I have to invest money up front and Rob will tell you, you know, you have to put the money up to make it, it sits on a shelf until you get your money back.

[00:27:40] And it's just not a, it's just not financially. Um, a wise thing for me to continue to do. Unfortunately, protein powders. The majority of protein powders are, um, commodity items. You know, people are shopping for the best price and they're buying it as cheap as they can. And they look at thrive, no different than [00:28:00] they do any other way or casein or whey casein and isolate and blah, blah, blah.

[00:28:06] They look at it like no other protein powder out there. And you know, companies like optimum nutrition and so on, you know, they, they've set the bar so low on pricing. Uh, because you're buying literally, you know, when, when something reaches a commodity level, there's really very little quality in it anymore.

[00:28:23] It's all about moving tons and I can't move tons of thrive. So I'm never going to have those financial efficiencies built into thrive where I could say, yeah, well, we're moving, you know, 6,000 pounds a month. So yeah, now instead of making dollars, I'm making $10

[00:28:41] Coach Rob Regish: [00:28:41] a jug.

[00:28:42] Carl Lanore: [00:28:42] It's just not, it's just not worth it anymore.

[00:28:44] So I don't know what's in the store. I haven't checked the inventory, but I can't tell you that once it's gone, it's gone. This will be it. And unless somebody comes to me from some company and says, look. We want to do business with you. We want to, we'll market it, you know, let us use your brand and your blend and [00:29:00] all that sort of stuff.

[00:29:00] I'm not going to make it again, I'm just not, but that's the deal that's out there today. 59 95 for three pound jug, and that includes shipping inside the United States

[00:29:11] Coach Rob Regish: [00:29:11] take.

[00:29:13] Carl Lanore: [00:29:13] Yeah, it is. It really is, because I'm just trying to get rid of it now. Now, now I'm at the point where I just want to. I just want to go through it and be done with it.

[00:29:20] So I want to get my investment back out of it and be done with it.

[00:29:25] Coach Rob Regish: [00:29:25] It's sad commentary, right? When people like us strive to do super high quality products and you get marginalized by high margin,

[00:29:36] Carl Lanore: [00:29:36] the logic behind protein powder is, I don't care if it's cheap, I'll use more because I can afford to use more if I'm paying, you know, if I'm paying $7 a pound.

[00:29:45] Then I'll just use more and, uh, and I'm, I'm not gonna try to explain people why it's better to use less of this than more of that. And you just, you just can't, you can't, you can't. The noise level in the protein Mar, you know, Aaron cinnamon is a [00:30:00] brilliant businessman. I think we can all agree on this.

[00:30:03] Errands instincts in business. I've only seen a handful of other people like Ron Penna and so on. And Aaron, Aaron said to me, I'll never get in protein powder. He says, it's, there's no money in it. Why would I want to take up my money? Take up shelf space for products that just you competing against. You know all these other big brands out there and he just wouldn't do it.

[00:30:24] And the truth of the matter is, the only reason why quest nutrition got into the protein business is because they were buying so much protein powder for their bars and their chips that it just made sense to that for them to leverage those amazing prices they were getting and put some in jugs and sell it.

[00:30:40] Otherwise, of course, probably would have never got into the protein business, but they, you know, they, they, it was like, well, we're paying such a good price, right? Great price. We can compete with optimum nutrition and give a better product, and they do theirs as a, uh, a blend of way in casing at proper, uh, ratios.

[00:30:58] People, people can [00:31:00] buy a quest nutrition protein powder and almost emulate what thrive is doing. Really. I mean, there's a lot more thrive, but still, you get the point if you're gonna. Get down in the dirt with the commodity guys, go to quest nutrition and buy their stuff. I, the next question comes from Lawrence fol.

[00:31:17] What do you think about using a trap bar? Dead? A dead lift to boost my, I'm sorry, I can't read my own. My bow, my box squat, my bar, my back gets a lot of work on squats and I think the trap bar would offer the least stress on it. Good idea. I guess he's saying to take the. Aim off of his lower back and let it recover in between squatting, right?

[00:31:41] Coach Rob Regish: [00:31:41] Yeah.  you know, it brings up some, some interesting points. So trap bar, dead lifts are a favorite of mine, and there's simply a fantastic all around movement. In fact, if I had to pick one movement to do for the rest of my life, it'd be the trap bar. But. [00:32:00] Um, the reality is it is not ideal for your stated purpose.

[00:32:06] So let's talk about why that is. The only drawback that I can see to a trap bar is this. Um, and it's because of the way your feet must be situated in your stance. It is a quad dominant movement that isn't particularly a bad thing, but it's a fact that the vast majority of people in the gym. Or quad dominant.

[00:32:30] The issue being that on the box squat your stance being wide, or at least it should be a, and when you sit down and back, you really emphasize and are using , excuse me, the posterior chain

[00:32:46] Carl Lanore: [00:32:46] hams and glutes,

[00:32:48] Coach Rob Regish: [00:32:48] right? Versus your quads. So even if you push your trap bar deads up. The carry over to your box squat wide stance box squat is going to be metal.

[00:32:59] Now, are [00:33:00] there a lot of worse things you could be doing? Absolutely. But those are the reasons why the trap bar isn't ideal. So let's talk about what is performed correctly. That box squat draws heavily on the glue Tams and lower back. So that's our first clue. We've gotta look at movements that work those three, um, and or things that, that accentuate those three.

[00:33:23] Also when you pause on the box and you should be paused and you should not be touching and going, we're crashing into the box. It's a recipe for disaster. A, you are performing what's called static overcome by dynamic work. That combined effect builds a hell of a lot of strength out of the hole, which is where most lifters fail.

[00:33:47] And consequently, when you. After you've been box squatting for a while, when you attempt a new one rep max, most people will come off the box, no problem. At [00:34:00] least a few inches there. They're coming out of the hole. Uh, but. But the bar rather will stall in the middle of the lift. So that's your new sticking point.

[00:34:11] Everybody else is probably going to get caught in the hole. You're going to be caught halfway up. And frankly, overcoming that sticking point is all about two things. Number one, abstract and bar speed. So to really boost your box squat. I recommend the following three movements. One would be the standing AB crunch where you're facing away from a lap machine, right?

[00:34:37] And you're holding the handle behind your head. Number two, speed squats. And number three, glute ham bridges. So first things first, the standing AB crunch is a close second to my favorite AB movement, which is the hanging leg race. So, you know, why aren't we doing those instead? Well, think about it. You're standing when you [00:35:00] box, squat, squat, or deadlift, right?

[00:35:03] Then if your stated objective is to improve either of those two, then your am work is best performed. Standing up to two sets of three to five reps with this heavier weight as possible works really, really well. Now, it takes some time to get the hang of, but you'll know it when you do it. Okay. You'll know what you know.

[00:35:26] You get the form right. You can feel it in your abs, crunched down, or at least attempt to crunch down until your torso is about parallel with the ground and then returned to an almost, but not quite vertical position before doing another rep second. And speed squat day. Once a week, you're going to use 40% of your one rep max plus a double up mini band on either side of the bar bell.

[00:35:53] If you're not familiar with bands, take a week or two to get used to them. They're very hard on the body. You want to [00:36:00] perform 10 to 12 sets of two repetitions. Moving that bar as fast as possible. It's a lockout. Make sure. There's tension from the bands. Even when you're sitting on the box on the bottom, that's very important.

[00:36:14] And remember, pause on the box again before exploding up. You want to rest just 30 to 45 seconds between each set. It's very fast paced stuff. It goes by fast. It's very challenging and demanding, but it gets the job done because remember, force equals mass times acceleration. And adding bar acceleration work to your repertoire works wonders for most, believe it or not, that sticking point halfway up can largely be overcome with speed and momentum.

[00:36:53] If you're moving fast enough right out of the bottom and speed, squats are a way to get you there. Finally, you [00:37:00] want to embrace heavy. Gluten, ham, bridges. Most guys go way too light on these and consequently they don't get all the benefits. You want to really push the weight. You want to perform five sets in a descending pyramid fashion.

[00:37:14] I like the ten eight, six, four, two reps spread, right with obviously the weights getting heavier as you go along, like the speed squats. Remember the pause right between reps, because doing so is going to build the kind of static overcome by dynamic strength, that scene in the box squat. Um, and also really emphasize and getting your hips as high as possible.

[00:37:43] You want to accentuate popping the hips through right. It's a very forceful hip thrust movement. Do that as much as possible. Why? Because you see that same motion or you should when you're [00:38:00] locking out or getting to the top of your squad or Denver. So it's no accident why I prescribed them there. One final note, he mentioned some lower back issues.

[00:38:09] Uh, it's no accident that all three of my recommendations take the stress off your lower back. Strong abs alone will fix a lot of lower back issues that I've seen. Uh, the speed squats are very, like, comparatively speaking, there is some vertical compression there, but it's nothing like squatting heavy. Uh, and the gluten ham bridges allow you to use ultra heavyweight with near zero vertical compression of the spine.

[00:38:41] So I hope that helps. I know those three movements are going to do wonders. I'd love to hear back from you.

[00:38:48] Carl Lanore: [00:38:48] And on that note, we're going to take a quick commercial break, and when we come back, we got more questions. The next question comes from a, let's see here, Jeff jarrison. Uh, you don't want to miss that.

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[00:39:06] Coach Rob Regish: [00:39:06] is the superhuman channel

[00:39:08] Carl Lanore: [00:39:08] evolution just got kicked up a notch.

[00:39:15] Welcome back. Rob, did you hear that they found out where the Corona virus started and, and woo Han China?

[00:39:25] Coach Rob Regish: [00:39:25] No.

[00:39:26] Carl Lanore: [00:39:26] Yeah. It's a guy named, ah,

[00:39:28] Coach Rob Regish: [00:39:28] choo.

[00:39:32] Let's not bad for clean joke. I know.

[00:39:34] Carl Lanore: [00:39:34] It's pretty dumb. It's pretty dumb. I, so I missed the question. It's from Mike Samuelson. He said, uh, so we're almost 10 months past when the equity study in humans was published. What's your reaction at this point? Are they going to be more studies with humans, and if so, what do you expect the results

[00:39:53] Coach Rob Regish: [00:39:53] to be.

[00:39:54] You know, I have to be honest. Uh, my reaction at this point is a little bit [00:40:00] of of surprise because I thought by this time there would be more companies I would, you know, have rollout equity products. Uh, and now I have some theories as to why that hasn't happened and given what my past experience has been, or probably it's probably a pretty good guess.

[00:40:20] So here's my take. Anyone that's researching EQ, D sterile as a product to offer. They've got a lot of reading to do, a lot of reading. There are now 517 known EQ D stones, and they are still identifying new ones, uh, every year. So if they're doing their homework. They realize at some point that this is not a single compound we're talking about.

[00:40:51] It is a family of compounds. And so the next thing they're going to do is kind of scratch your head and look at many of the past [00:41:00] studies which seem to identify 20 hydroxyurea at the stair on, as the one scientist thinks is most active. Uh, so they got them on the horn, usually to China, and they price that out and they can find it rather cheap, especially if it comes from a left lesser source.

[00:41:22] Jean, it's like sign, notice blogger or sign notice. Arachnoid. Um, now other scientists. From other countries will contend that  is the most anabolic, one of all. So they priced that out and then they get sticker shock, you know? Um,

[00:41:43] Carl Lanore: [00:41:43] it's their Keystone, not a normally occurring EQ. The form in sign notice Volga or any of the other, or is it, is it only in some species of plants, but not others?

[00:41:57] Coach Rob Regish: [00:41:57] Right? Just so the plant species is [00:42:00] different, uh, than, than the norm, so to speak. Uh, it's not nearly as common and it's only harvested really in one place in Russia. Um, the Institute of chemistry and plant sciences, and as Pakistan has the best material, but the plant source genus is a Juga Turkistan Anika.

[00:42:23] It is not responsive. Government is not, um, Suma, you know, although there are small amounts of Turk cast her own in repository, but in any case, what I'm trying to illustrate there is they find out pretty quickly they can buy some really cheap stuff or some really expensive stuff and everything in between, the more well versed of them.

[00:42:48] Um. Do wind up reading a fair amount, believe it or not, of my stuff. And I know that by the way, for two reasons. Number one, I get their questions. [00:43:00] Other companies would call me up and told me, we're working on Nike product. What do you think? Uh, now I don't reveal everything I know, but they walk away knowing enough that full spectrum Reponses com is the best play given it contains.

[00:43:16] Not only Turk Esterow. But dozens of ECPI steroids in groupings and ratios, not found in other plants. So they price that out and they find out that it's pretty expensive. It's not as bad as , but it's close. Um, it is certainly not cheap, like 20 hydroxy, the vast majority. Then, uh. We'll water that down and want to add additional ingredients in their formulas, which, look, I don't have any problem with.

[00:43:49] I do the same thing in . Right. I have added every nutraceutical that is complimentary or synergistic with repository. They don't [00:44:00] easily understand, though. They don't really understand. How this ingredient works with that as it's something that, that, that was just something that came over decades of trial and error on my part.

[00:44:14] So, you know, it doesn't fit nicely into most companies. This product has to be a dollar a day or less consumer formula. And frankly, you know, most of the products on the market. Fall into that bucket. Three workouts are a great example. So, um, I'll let

[00:44:34] Carl Lanore: [00:44:34] Len Moskovitz who ran metrics told me that for a protein powder to be successful metric discovered it had to be under $2 a serving everybody, you know, these, these, these thresholds of consumer response exist.

[00:44:52] They're real. And once you start going above those thresholds, you, you, you don't have as big of an [00:45:00] audience that's willing to understand why this costs more and so we'll spend more.

[00:45:05] Coach Rob Regish: [00:45:05] Yep. And it's always going to be that way too, I think. Um, unfortunately. But look, I think at this point in, in, in the history of the compound, most people are aware that.

[00:45:20] 20 hydroxy at the sterile FD from cyanosis. Varga is really not worth doing as a product because it doesn't work all that well. On the other hand, um, they can use  or other esoteric active steroids, but they're going to pay a lot of money. And as a consequence, I think a lot of companies have elected not to do an active product.

[00:45:45] Uh, and, and you know what I say? Good for them. Because what's the alternative? It's, it's what happened the first time. A large number of companies order up the cheapest ft sterile and they can find right. And the consumer winds up [00:46:00] getting what they pay for. And so we'd be right back

[00:46:03] Carl Lanore: [00:46:03] and no results. So they have no, they have no interest in buying it again.

[00:46:08] And then they, and then they grade every equity product with the same, uh, disregard. Right.

[00:46:14] Coach Rob Regish: [00:46:14] And, and that's unfortunate. So, you know, in my mind it's better to do, to not do a product and to do a lousy product. Uh, with respect to the studies. Look, we have a snowballing number of them with positive findings, including very positive findings in human subjects.

[00:46:34] Something I was once told would never happen. Uh, by the way, I'm aware of at least one follow on human study that's going to be looking closer at, at these mechanism of action that should tell you something. They're not looking at whether it works, if you're looking at the mechanism of action that it works through

[00:46:58] And now I'm going to [00:47:00] predict that, uh, they will revalidate, it works for the estrogen B receptor, but I'm also going to tell you this, they are going to find other pathways that have been hinted at before. So look, this stuff works, but it doesn't work just through one pathway. There are a minimum of three that I can see and probably more like five or six when it's all done.

[00:47:25] So sit tight, I would say, and wait it out for now. You can still use, set the gender and other quality equity and enjoy the benefits and hopefully someday soon we will have something even better.

[00:47:38] Carl Lanore: [00:47:38] So I told when that study first came out, I sent it to Ryan Smith over tailor made. And if you, if you could get to somebody who could synthesize and acting one of them, which one would it be?

[00:47:56] Coach Rob Regish: [00:47:56] no, no. I would do, I would still do a full [00:48:00] spectrum repository,

[00:48:01] Carl Lanore: [00:48:01] but if you can't, what have you can't? What of you're synthesizing it in, in the lab, you can't do a full spectrum. Is there an isolated form that you think would have the greatest potential.

[00:48:12] Coach Rob Regish: [00:48:12] So I asked her on from what we know today, so I asked her on what did I have the best sports nutrition potential.

[00:48:20] You know, there are other equities like InterGest gesture on a and B, which dramatically lower total and Cola and bad cholesterol levels. So yeah, it depends, I guess, on which

[00:48:33] Carl Lanore: [00:48:33] one they want to go. Our goals is to, as, as a performance enhancing agent. It'd

[00:48:39] Coach Rob Regish: [00:48:39] probably be SIAST around that.

[00:48:40] Carl Lanore: [00:48:40] Yeah. Okay. Yeah, because they were willing to look into it, but I couldn't give them any other guidance.

[00:48:46] I should just put them in touch with you and then you guys can work together and they can come up with an injectable. We're talking about an injectable form.

[00:48:52] Coach Rob Regish: [00:48:52] Yeah. Yup. That's awesome.

[00:48:55] Carl Lanore: [00:48:55] Uh, so, uh, Jeff Garretson says, [00:49:00] like, you, I have arthritis in my elbow and now doctor say it's in my knees. What can I do, if anything, to make sure I can still lift heavy?

[00:49:10] Coach Rob Regish: [00:49:10] Yeah. You know, the medical orthodoxy frustratingly offers frustratingly little in the way of solutions when it comes to arthritis. And personally, it infuriates me to think that in the year 2020 and especially considering how prevalent arthritis is in the population. You would think we have a better answer than what I was told.

[00:49:36] There's nothing you can do. There's absolutely nothing you can do. It's only gonna get worse. It's never gonna get better. That is not entirely true, by the way. So let me get into it. The first thing that I noticed that works with school coaching, it worked pretty good orally. Um, but ever since I found a source for the injectable.

[00:50:00] [00:50:00] I just never looked back. So, so where as you might need 1.5 to three grams a day of Glucosomine orally, you need just 400 milligrams twice a day or 200 milligrams twice a week total of 400 milligrams when it comes to shooting it. So, you know, it seems to work a lot better. How much better I am bone on bone in my right elbow, no cartilage to speak of.

[00:50:30] Glucosomine is the difference for me between being able to not even hold a handstand versus performing handstand pushups without pain. Okay. Now, I still do have some pain when I try to press barbells over my head and, and, and bench. But it's a whole hell of a lot worse without glucose. Um. You know, as far as sources and stuff, it just takes a little Googling [00:51:00] now moving on.

[00:51:01] There's no question that she's just quadrangular. Iris is a staple for many with joint issues. It is what I call a 90% meaning 90% of the people that I recommend it to come back and thank me and say how well it works. They get great results and it often works. It does work a hell of a lot faster. Then Glucosomine we're conjuring, nobody's quite sure how it works, but speculation centers around the fact it might lower cortisol, whatever the case is, it provides relief for many, and it's reasonably priced on Amazon and elsewhere.

[00:51:42] Uh, I have used both the of force and the absent new tricks brand, and I've been satisfied with both boswellia Serrata. Also deserves special mention because it's often overlooked and it is a great analgesic. And [00:52:00] like CSUs, it works fast. If only more people tried those two products first. Um, and I'm absolutely certain they would have no need for nonsteroidal anti antiinflammatories.

[00:52:15] Now I saved my newest fine for last. And it was a total surprise. So Sam E, you may have heard of it. It was discovered in the 50s and researchers later found that some patients with depression, they were giving it to them for depression. They had reduced levels of Sammy, and as they were studying, whether it might help with depression, they found that some patients who also have

[00:52:46] Arthritis reported big time joint pain improvements. That pretty much mirrored my experience as I started taking this stuff recently. Honestly, I, it was just [00:53:00] because I had it in my black box. It had been sitting there forever and I wanted to see the effect it had on my mood. I was not thinking whatsoever about pain relief.

[00:53:11] All of a sudden. Bye. Ryan elbow starts feeling even better. So according to the arthritis foundation, he works as a pain reliever. And then it also has anti-inflammatory properties, may stimulate cartilage growth. I'll say that again. May stimulate cartilage growth and impact serotonin, decreasing the perception of pain.

[00:53:38] Now all of that sounds very promising. Uh. Especially regrowing cartilage. Right? If that's true though, I'm going to caveat it with this. If that's true, it probably means you need to have some cartilage left to begin with. No cartilage, there's nothing to regrow, so I'm kind of [00:54:00] stuck there. You might not be, uh, is well, well worth a try.

[00:54:04] So, you know, get on this stuff earlier rather than later. And meaning get on your injury and get an accurate diagnosis because it's going to impact the supplements that you use to treat it. Do not do what I did and forgo a formal diagnosis, uh, and think that it was elbow tendinitis and I just took CSUs for years and years and years.

[00:54:32] CSUs will not regrow cartilage. Cool costuming, conjure Reutten some in some studies did I wasted my cartilage wasted away. So now I have very, very few options, okay. But with these bandaids, I'm here to tell you that I can still make it through some movements. Now, some movements are still out of reach, like weighted dips, heavy weighted depths.

[00:55:00] [00:55:00] Um, but I can make it through sets. Of the dumbbell bench presses, one on Rose weighted chins and my shoulder exercises without much pain. In some cases, I can go the whole workout without even thinking about my elbow once. And anybody that's got arthritis knows, you know, as you're grinding through it in your workout, quite literally, uh, you get shooting pains wherever you've got arthritis and.

[00:55:30] You know, to go through a workout then with, with not even thinking about it is a damn near miracle in my book. Now, the price of Sammy has come down recently, uh, but it's still one of the more expensive options out there at 800 to 1200 milligrams today, which is what you should really be taking to see what it can do for you.

[00:55:54] Um. You should also, whenever possible, try to find film [00:56:00] tabs of the stuff. As Sammy picks up moisture very easily. Uh, they are expensive. Those products, relatively speaking. And so as such, you're better off, uh, at least try and Glucosomine CSUs, boswellia, curcumin, etc. First, you know, do that first. If those still aren't cutting it.

[00:56:23] And you can afford it. Go for the dose of Sammy that works for you if you absolutely can't afford it. Here's a little tip for you. TMG converse to Sammy in the liver, and it is much, much cheaper, uh, especially when bought as a bulk powder. For those purposes, you'll need anywhere between three and six grams a day.

[00:56:48] So you've got the benefits. Uh, but what TMG does alone is worth the price of admission. So it's, it's a no brainer. Um, by the way, that's part of the reason [00:57:00] why you hear people sometimes say, Hey, you don't set the gym. He healed my injuries. I say part, and not all, because the TMG we use is. I'll use the term amplified by two other ingredients in the formula.

[00:57:16] If you dig deep enough on pub bed, you'll probably come across a study supporting what I just said. Um, in any case. So if you're using it, if you're using Cynthia,

[00:57:28] Carl Lanore: [00:57:28] Oh, Rob, I hope you know, you just dropped out. . He was a TA. I'm going to throw something in here. So this is good. This is good. Um, and I'm sure he'll reconnect here in a minute.

[00:57:39] So we now know that osteoarthritis is an autoimmune disease, just like it's a big brother. Rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis was discovered to be an autoimmune disease as a result. Rob, I just picked up here in your absence. So just hold on. I'm bringing you back on. Uh, so, so osteoarthritis has been [00:58:00] discovered to be an autoimmune disease because they started to look at people with osteoarthritis and they looked at non weight bearing joints.

[00:58:08] I mean, it's obvious that the knees, you know, those, they, they carry a lot of weight. But what about the hands? What about the cervical spine? When people have osteoarthritis, they seem to develop it in the entire. A skeletal system, and there's no reason to get osteoarthritis in your hands, in your cervical, uh, spine unless you've got a huge head like me.

[00:58:32] Uh, because these are not weight bearing joints. And so they started to look at the progression of osteoarthritis. And what they found out was that people who had autoimmunity tended to develop osteoarthritis almost exclusively as opposed to people who didn't. Once they started to look at autoimmunity, it started to become very, very clear.

[00:58:49] And I'll tell you why Sammy works. Uh, as, uh, what is it? SMEs  um,  is a high, sulfur has a lot of [00:59:00] sulfur in it. Uh, it, it actually helps people with allergies. So people who have allergies, allergies is an overreactive immune system. Uh, Sam, he modulates and suppresses overactivity in the immune system. When we talk about osteoarthritis, your immune system is overreacting and it's, it's literally going after.

[00:59:19] The cartilage in your joints. It thinks that it's a bad actor, so thinks it has to get rid of it. Now, let's extrapolate from that. So if you first look at your, your disease or your condition as a form of auto immunity, the first thing you have to do is start looking at your diet. What are you eating.

[00:59:38] That's causing your immune system to overreact. And basically we're talking about allergies, number one. Uh, but more importantly, when we start to look at autoimmunity and we start to look at, um, the role of proteins, and we just did a show about this on digested proteins in this and the gut, leaky gut, we know that these are, [01:00:00] uh, downstream effects of autoimmunity.

[01:00:04] those issues. Autoimmunity is a downstream effect. So the first thing you gotta do is get your gut straightened out, get your diet straightened out. If you want to regrow cartilage from bone, you can either buy growth hormone and bring it to a, uh, um, an osteo pod and say, look, you know, I, this is real growth hormone.

[01:00:23] Would you inject it into my knees with some, uh, hyleronic acid to keep it in the joint, but into articular growth hormone injections, regrow. Cartilage from bone. In fact, when I had Dr. Alan Dunn on many years ago, the guy who really pioneered this process, and I think he died recently, he was a very old man when I had him on.

[01:00:44] Um, he's helped football players, baseball players. He's helped all sorts of athletes who were being told that their knees were shot. And he did the, he did the research. He showed that once they put 20, I use of, of growth hormone mixed in with hyaluronic acid, high molecular weight hyaluronic acid into the [01:01:00] synovial capsule.

[01:01:01] Um, they actually saw a first new blood vessels sprouting out of the bone. That was then followed by the growth of new chondracytes, and in six months to a year they had new cartilage in the joints. This is, this is why it baffles me how people immediately go for knee replacements, and really this process could put most of the orthopedic surgeons that almost exclusively do knee and hip replacements, literally out of business.

[01:01:33] It really could. And maybe that's why no one talks about it. But with that being said, what you want to do is if you have this problem, BPC one 57 real growth hormone, injected directly into the capsule joint with some hyaluronic acid by someone using ultrasound guided injections. There's even some really good, um, chiropractors that are now doing STEM cell injections into the knee.

[01:01:59] You can get the [01:02:00] STEM cells, the hyaluronic acid, and then add a little. You know, 10 I'll use 20 I use of growth hormone into the knee and stall. Looking at your diet, definitely. Sammy is a big, big winner because Sam, he seems to help people who have autoimmune diseases. I predict that you've discovered Sam E without realizing that it is a profound, profound supplement for people of autoimmunity, and you can buy Sammy online.

[01:02:25] I have one. It's the name of it is golden. Something. A kilo for about $35 Oh yeah. It's, it's not expensive if you buy it in bulk. I'm sure that bulk of supplements probably has it as well. Now that I think of it, uh, and you reminded me I need to start taking my Sammy again. I've got a bunch of it out in the garage.

[01:02:44] It's still good. It's in a plastic bag, but yes, osteoarthritis is an autoimmune disease, just like rheumatoid arthritis. It's just progressive, slower. Uh, and if you start treating it that way and you start focusing, focusing on increasing growth, [01:03:00] uh, growth hormone in the body and, or, uh, also taking BPC one 57, uh, I believe you could recover from this and actually have joint that worked fantastic.

[01:03:11] Again, that, that's, that's my advice right there.

[01:03:14] Coach Rob Regish: [01:03:14] Yeah. 20. Are you? Oh,

[01:03:16] Carl Lanore: [01:03:16] yeah. Right, right into the knee. Dr. Allen done. Uh, he pioneered the intra articular growth hormone injection taught. He taught orthopedic surgeons all around the country. There's probably some out there that do it. Uh, he put it in hyleronic acid as a medium to keep it localized.

[01:03:33] It doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't get out of the capsule joint. You should understand this. So you, if they put 20, I'll use in your knee. It doesn't get delivered to your body. It stays there. And if they put it in the hyaluronic acid, it creates this, this viscous. A thick, syrupy liquid that keeps it in contact with the bone.

[01:03:53] And that's when vascular endothelial growth factors start to make new blood vessels sprout. And then the next thing you know, [01:04:00] you have new chondracytes and the next thing you know, you have a completely new meniscus, a layer in your knee. And, and he used to do it. So you would fly to Florida and he would do 20 Ru's in each knee if you had both knees.

[01:04:16] Uh, and then you'd come back in six weeks and they've evaluate the growth and then he may do it again. And he would do that every six weeks for up to a year until you had a nice big thick layer of meniscus back in your name. Whoa. Yeah. And you could do that in your elbow. You could do it in your joints, you know, whatever your hips, hips.

[01:04:36] He did say hips a hotter cause. Getting into that hip joint, getting that needle into that hip joint is a little trickier, but it can be done. Can be done. Okay,

[01:04:45] Coach Rob Regish: [01:04:45] well there's hope for me then. That's great.

[01:04:48] Carl Lanore: [01:04:48] So he said the hardest, the weirdest thing he ever had to do was a baseball player who kept getting hit with a ball directly on the thumb.

[01:04:57] And if you've ever literally hit your [01:05:00] thumb head on, you know how hard that, how bad that hurts and how long that pain lasts. And this particular baseball player. It must've injured that thumb like three or four times, and the cartilage and the, and the thumb was gone. But he was still young enough to play and he put the growth hormone right in there and the thumb joint.

[01:05:17] And he said it only took three applications and the guys, cartilage and the thumb completely grew back.

[01:05:23] Coach Rob Regish: [01:05:23] Good for him. That's great.

[01:05:24] Carl Lanore: [01:05:24] Pretty startling stuff that people don't know about. In fact, I did a show with him, uh, that basically said, uh, don't get that hip replacement just yet. So

[01:05:36] Coach Rob Regish: [01:05:36] that's great.

[01:05:37] Carl Lanore: [01:05:37] So I think we've got all the questions answered.

[01:05:39] Yes. Uh, that's the one we just answered. We're going to take all last commercial break and when we come back, we got the blueprint tip of the day. Let me queue up my music tuned. We shall return in just a moment.

[01:05:51] Coach Rob Regish: [01:05:51] This is the superhuman channel where we use oxygen for the power of good.

[01:06:01] [01:06:00] Carl Lanore: [01:06:01] Welcome back to the blueprint power hour. What coach is going to give us the blueprint tip of the day, and that tip of the day speaks to.

[01:06:11] Coach Rob Regish: [01:06:11] It speaks to, uh, getting to and staying outside of your comfort zone. Now, I, I've, I've talked about this before, right? Um, I don't think it was that far back even, but I wanted to re revisit it given its importance, because I'm seeing it play out now in my son.

[01:06:34] And his friend and myself. And there were some interesting dynamics that that went along with that. So the other day I had my son and his friend, they finished their workout with sled sprints. Now these aren't any old slits. There's, there's no rest. So, you know, you sprint down to the end of the artificial turf.

[01:06:58] As soon as you turn around, [01:07:00] that's letter on. Boom, you're sprinting back and then boom, boom, boom, boom. Uh, it's so it's back to back to back. And. It's like jumping into a VAT of cold water, right? Especially the first time you do it. It's probably the fastest, and I would say one of the most brutal way ways of bringing your work capacity up, both your aerobics and your anaerobic threshold.

[01:07:28] So here's what I did. I had them start, um. By sprinting with the sled that was weighted with just about a third of their body weight. I didn't go crazy. Uh, so they sprint up, back up, back until, right. You don't have quite have the power in your legs to sprint anymore. You could push it, I imagine. Um, but instead I have them strip 50% of the weight off and bam, right back to sprint.

[01:07:58] When they can no longer continue [01:08:00] with that. We strip all the weight off and boom, right back to sprinting. So the first time they tried this, uh, I want to say they made it to almost a three minute Mark. They collapsed. Most people in fact, that are not used to this. I would expect them to collapse as well.

[01:08:21] It took everything that they had and it took them a long time to recover, which is something else that's very important that I'll speak to when the bit, uh, now, yesterday they had their second session or third, and they made it to a little over four minutes. And this time. They recovered much, much faster, which is a sure sign that your conditioning is picking up.

[01:08:49] You would not know this. However, if you don't measure it. So I would tell you, in addition to measuring, you know how many minutes you're able to sprint [01:09:00] for until you, you absolutely have to stop. I also want you to measure how long it takes to recover your breathing. After one of those sessions, because that is a very key indicator.

[01:09:15] And when I say recovery, you're breathing. Uh, personally. Uh, my benchmark is if I can breathe through my nose, I recovered my breathing, you know, you know, longer than it needs to take huge gasps of air. I suppose you could do it with heart rate too, but look, you got, you get the message right. Measure that variable to

[01:09:38] Along the way, in addition to their conditioning picking up, my son is learning to read his body. So for example, the first time he tried this before they both tried it. I told them, look, I don't want anybody passing out. I don't want anybody throwing up. If you think you're going to get to that point, then stop.

[01:10:00] [01:10:00] You know? Uh, but my son was in the, in the middle of doing his first, you know, I don't know, six or seven of them. And then he started like, he, he, he stopped for a little bit. I said, what's wrong? And he said, dad, my throat hurts. Well, I asked a few more questions and. I figured it out. You know his, his complaint about his throat hurting with simply the copious amount of oxygen that you need to breathe in, right.

[01:10:36] That was flowing through his throat to his lungs and back out again. Okay. That does not constitute stopping. That is not a, I'm going to throw up. I'm going to, you know, collapse my, I feel like my hearts. Let's go into fast. That is simply discomfort. Now, it was the same thing with his legs. He stopped [01:11:00] briefly the first time around and he said, dad, my legs are giving out, and then in reality, he no longer could generate the power necessary to sprint with the slip, but that's not, that's not a problem because here's the fix.

[01:11:17] You just simply reduce weight. And then he found that he was able give him the power that he had left in his legs to sprint with that. And so the moral moral of the story here is that in addition to building tremendous aerobics and anaerobic capacity, these kids are building mental toughness, understanding how do use his mind to push through.

[01:11:48] His physical limits. And look, I want everybody to know this. I hate conditioning work. There is nothing more that I despise than [01:12:00] cardio. Slash. Conditioning. I don't know that anyone that I know of looks forward to sled sprints, that's for sure. Um, but I know above all else. That I need to do them because that's what I need to improve most.

[01:12:16] So I told the kids, look, I am never going to ask you to do something that I myself wouldn't do. And so I proceeded to finish that workout by working up to 13 minutes straight of sled sprints, uh, and, and true to form. I recovered faster than the last time I did it. Which was only for 12 minutes. Look, these aren't for everyone.

[01:12:43] It's just a good example of an exercise that will get you out of your comfort zone. Uh, especially the first time you try it. You will be shocked at how difficult they are. But I'll tell you this too. You will be equally as [01:13:00] shocked. At how fast your body adapts and gets in better shape, because the first few times you perform them, you're going to feel totally flat.

[01:13:11] Even in short order, your body starts adapting so that you can go longer, faster, and harder. It truly amazing. It really is to watch the body do this. Um, and then finally, I'll tell you this, if you're training other people. And you're asking them to do these sled sprints, you absolutely must do that too.

[01:13:31] You must lead by example. No ifs, ands, or buts. So here's the bottom line, whether it's sled sprints or something else, get out of your comfort zone and stay there as long as possible. For some of us, it's the only way to get better at what you do.

[01:13:50] Carl Lanore: [01:13:50] So I just started doing flood sprints. Again, I haven't done them in.

[01:13:54] Quite a few years actually, so I want to start to be able to [01:14:00] squat and dead lift again. I've got one. My left foot is literally close to two inches shorter than it used to be. Not the most stable thing in the world. I have a, I have an insert for my shoe, um, that. Was made to me, made for me by a doctor. Uh, Steve, why can't I think of his last name right now?

[01:14:20] I'm so sorry. It'll come to me in a second. Um, but he's a talented foot surgeon from Texas who follows the show and great guy, Hunter lifter, you know, he's living the life. He's older, like many of us today. And, uh, he made me this insert that will give me more stability in the left, left foot. And I'm happy about that.

[01:14:43] I haven't used it yet, but my, I've lost so much strength and so much mass from the waist down. It's scary. My ass disappeared. I got like an old guy's ass now. Um, you know, flat and my [01:15:00] quads just sh, I mean, I've used to put, I put jeans on that my quad used to be snug in and they're baggy, but that was up to about.

[01:15:10] Three weeks ago. So three weeks ago, I started getting serious about my legs. I started training them, uh, once heavy, once light. Uh, I found a new machine. I really like to, you know, I was doing, um, leg presses. And the problem with leg presses is that from wearing that boot for a year on my left foot, after the two surgeries, I had to, uh, dr Steve

[01:15:34] I'm sorry, dr Steve. Uh. From wearing that. Uh, that's why I was slow talking cause my hard drive was working in the background. So I wearing that boot has destroyed my knee. The outer portion of my knee. The bone literally rubs. I, I've lost so much muscle in the, uh, in the soleus muscle and that front, uh, tibial, uh, no, it's not the tibial most, but that front compartment muscle [01:16:00] that I have to read to develop it.

[01:16:01] So I've been doing a lot more toe presses. And leg raises a toe raises and I thought, well, how do I ease into dead lifting and squatting? I have very little glute strength. I don't want to just start doing hip thrusts yet. I want to make sure there's some stability. I put, you know, pushing a sled, pushing a sled is helping my feet, my ankles, my calves, my hamstrings, my quads too, and my gluten lower back.

[01:16:33] And I'm pushing, I'm wearing my be strong BFR bands. You want to, you want to feel pain, put these on and push your sleds. So I'm pushing a 200 pound sled and I'm sprinting with it. Not very, very far, but I'm doing it back and forth and then resting back and forth and then resting. It's probably, I'm probably sprinting it with both out and return, let's say.

[01:16:57] A hundred feet, let's just say for round numbers [01:17:00] and wearing these bands, literally like as soon as I launch into it by legs blow up and burn

[01:17:08] Coach Rob Regish: [01:17:08] burned

[01:17:09] Carl Lanore: [01:17:09] like painfully, but in the past two weeks, my legs almost back to the size they were. Before I w yeah. Look, if you don't believe in BFR, be strong bands. You missing out on an opportunity to truly see your muscles grow faster than if you will.

[01:17:26] Using a gram of test a week. I guarantee it. There's nothing like them and I, and now I'm doing sprints on every, almost every, no matter what body part I'm training. I go in the CrossFit area and I do sled pushes. And so this morning I did them. I probably did a one, two. I did three passes tonight. So let's say that's 150 feet, and I did that three times and man, my calves are coming back.

[01:17:53] My hamstrings are coming back. My quads are exploding and my glutes, I'm starting to feel it in my glutes. I feel like [01:18:00] another two or three weeks of what I'm doing right now and I'll be ready to maybe grab the trap bar and dead lifted a few times. I will put dr , uh, insert in my left shoe to give that left foot that because I actually grabbed a trap on the other day to set it up for Elisa and I could feel it.

[01:18:17] My leg, my left foot is going like this. It's rocking. The other right one is solid. The left one is rocking. And I, you know what happens if it starts rocking? I'm going to pull a muscle because the muscles upstream, we're going to try to compensate and hold the foot steady, but there is nothing like sledge sprints, nothing in the world.

[01:18:33] It's you want to, you want to talk about high intensity interval training. Nothing fancy baby. Go push your car up the street. That's, that's high intensity interval training. Now there it is

[01:18:44] Coach Rob Regish: [01:18:44] and you get a great workout for your heart and lungs to your, you know, you're, you're doing all of that. In one shot, and so it is a very efficient way to build muscle, to strip body fat, to build a [01:19:00] better, more robust heart and lungs, and therefore work capacity, which means the more work capacity you have, the more total Tyler's you'll be able to handle in any given time period.

[01:19:14] Right, right. You will recover faster in between your sets, then you'll be stronger when you do your next step. Yeah.

[01:19:21] Carl Lanore: [01:19:21] And if they close my gym tomorrow, I'm going to start videoing workouts from home and I'm going to show people you can get a tremendous workout from home anytime you want. You don't, you don't need a fancy gym.

[01:19:34] Now I love the gym. Literally getting in my car and driving to the gym. My mind changes. My outlook changes. I literally feel preparedness coming on, so I love the gym. Don't get me wrong. But I may have to live without it and I'm going to make gains while, while doing so though. That's it. Coach Rob, regular hookup.

[01:19:54] Coach Rob Regish: [01:19:54] Sorry. I hope your stays open. And as far as I know, mind staying [01:20:00] open. So

[01:20:00] Carl Lanore: [01:20:00] the governor is supposed to be talking today at five o'clock and I think he's going to, so right now, there are no sit down restaurants open. Only restaurants are open for pickup a carry out and or drive through. Right. Um, they've closed the schools.

[01:20:16] Um. Yeah. Closing, uh, elective surgery. Now, unless you're in a car accident, there's nobody doing surgery right now.

[01:20:25] Coach Rob Regish: [01:20:25] That's a good point. I've got hernia surgery at the end of the month. And wonder if that's,

[01:20:29] Carl Lanore: [01:20:29] you know, they're gonna, they're gonna postpone that because they're gonna have a backlog. All the people that should be getting surgery today and tomorrow aren't going to get it.

[01:20:34] So you're going to get pushed back to a, my daughter, Sydney works for, um, the Hilton corporation. She just got a notice after these last group of guests check out. They're talking about either closing or just letting all nonessential employees stay home. Uh, so now you have, there's nobody on airplanes. My buddy Jim Vanderhall sent the picture from some, I don't know what airport he was in, in Dallas at someplace that the airport was [01:21:00] empty.

[01:21:00] I've never seen anything like it. It's like TSA agent standing around. Nobody else.

[01:21:05] Coach Rob Regish: [01:21:05] Yeah. Yeah, it's a different world, but at some point, life will go back to normal.

[01:21:12] Carl Lanore: [01:21:12] Absolutely. It absolutely. And I don't think it's very far off. Maybe, you know, this 15 days that, uh, that our administration is talking about 15 days.

[01:21:21] I actually think it's going to have an amazing effect on suppressing the transmission of this virus.

[01:21:26] Coach Rob Regish: [01:21:26] I hope so. I really do. But you know, it's a great way to underscore, um. What we strive to to have here as superhumans optimal health. You know, walking around within a strong immune system is defense number one against this stuff.

[01:21:47] And if you don't believe that, look at the stats. Who's dying from this? Not younger people. 80 year olds with underlying medical conditions. Yeah,

[01:21:57] Carl Lanore: [01:21:57] I bet you nobody in our audience gets [01:22:00] this.

[01:22:01] Coach Rob Regish: [01:22:01] Yeah, I'd be surprised.

[01:22:03] Carl Lanore: [01:22:03] I bet they don't. Especially if you're taking your vitamin D three like I say, I look, that's it.

[01:22:08] That's it for today. I will be on the air every day. Even if I got sick. I'm coming in here. I'm going to wheeze and cough and complain about how miserable I feel, but I'm going to work because I cannot give you the virus because of this camera.

[01:22:23] Coach Rob Regish: [01:22:23] There you go.

[01:22:24] Carl Lanore: [01:22:24] All right. We'll see everybody tomorrow with more super human radio.

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