[00:00:00] shortened this intro. Welcome back to another episode of super human radio. Today's the last day of the month, March 31st, 2020 we're deeper and deeper into the self quarantine Corona virus, uh, period of history. We're making history right now. We are part of history, I should say. And, uh, the Corona virus, a quorum cell quarantine has been extended to April 30th, uh, because we are still seeing a slight rise in cases in the country.

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[00:03:16] So you will not ever feel like you can't get enough, even radio. You'll be able to listen to shows from 2006 play again. So sit tight. Very, very exciting, uh, time right here. And I'm excited about this. And now without further delay. Willing, all blueprint army fall in line. It's time for the blueprint power hour with coach Rob Ray gash on the superhuman radio network.

[00:03:45] Hey, Rob, how are you? How are you doing? I'm doing well. Uh, like you, I guess I'm just trying to ride out this, uh, Corona virus thing, but, uh, we can and we will so. You know, there's good news out there, like you said, a, [00:04:00] unfortunately not all news organizations report it, but soon enough we will turn the corner on this and this too shall pass.

[00:04:07] Yup. Yup. I agree 100% so a lot of people are still not training at home. And it's funny because we were having a conversation off. Uh, off the air. And I, I don't, I mean, people could just do body weight, squats, pushups, and find the bar to do pull ups on and that, what else do you really need? Yeah. And a lot of people, I think lose sight of this fact.

[00:04:31] You know, it in all likelihood, it took you years to build that muscle that you have on your, on your body. It's not going to disappear overnight. And you know, if you really want to, I would encourage you to take measurements. Um, and then, I don't know, maybe remeasure every two to three weeks or so, just to reassure yourself that you're not getting smaller.

[00:04:52] What you will find in history, interestingly enough, is your mind plays tricks on you. You look in the mirror and think, Oh my God, I'm losing [00:05:00] size. You're not the tape measure over. We'll show you that. So I know I did an insane workout today, Rob at home. Yeah, I got my uh, adjustable kettlebells out. I got an old fashioned bowling, uh, Canon ball kettlebell that's 55 pounds.

[00:05:18] I've got my 65 pound adjustable kettlebells and I got my a three X band out. I started out by doing a quarter mile, usually do a third of a mile. I did a quarter mile farmer's walks with the two 65 pound kettlebells, but I stopped 10 times and did 10 pushups instead of just standing around and resting when I had to put them down.

[00:05:39] Wow, that's fantastic. Then I went back in the backyard and I took the kettlebells and I did a series of other movements. I put it on Facebook this morning. But, uh, I did uni, uh, unilateral, uh, kettlebell curls with 65 pounds. I did five reps with 65 pounds, put 'em down, pull the pins, put the pins [00:06:00] back in, and then I did 65 pounds with the, with, uh, I'm sorry, uh, 25 to 35 pounds.

[00:06:05] I wrote it this morning. Another five reps put it down. I did that three times. Then I did. Um, I did, uh, let's see here. I did bent over rows. I did, um, kettlebell swings with the old fashioned 55 pound kettlebell. You know, it's amazing. My legs are really in bad shape. They're really weak. The kettlebell swings were hard.

[00:06:27] They wanted to pull me off balance and I had a struggle to stay balanced. But I feel like that's that. That's why I need to do more of those. And not only that, you get a great cardiovascular workout. I was trash and I'm still fasted. I haven't eaten since seven seven o'clock last night. So I trained fast and I'm still fast.

[00:06:44] I did have my BFR bands on when I trained, so I left them on to get that extra pump and in between during commercials and stuff, I'll be out in the hall doing pushups and body weight squats. Cool. Very cool. Do I, I'm not letting this get me down. I [00:07:00] can't. I'm too old. I the, the, the crawl up the Hill. It's so slow versus the slide down the Hill is very, very fast.

[00:07:10] Yup. Completely agree. On my first a home gym workout yesterday after a little bit of a break, and I honestly, and I'll talk about this later, I felt euphoric. I honestly felt euphoric. And, uh. It was an easy transition for me. It's not that way for everyone, but it was an easy transition from the gym to the home.

[00:07:36] Do you, do you see yourself training at home more often as a result of the, I think there's a lot of things that are going to change for people when we come out of this, like things like Starbucks has been closed, will be closed, and a lot of people are just going to inadvertently give up coffee. They're going to not even go back.

[00:07:50] Uh, I think that. The grocery stores are going to continue to wipe down the carts. Not, not just now, but like forever. Like, well, let's just keep doing that and keep people [00:08:00] healthy. Do you see yourself training at home more often? I do. Um, and I'll tell you in my gender mentioned this herself the other day.

[00:08:09] She said, you know, I can do. Just about everything I need to do here at home. You know, she goes to work very early. She gets up very early. She says, I could get this done and out of the way before I even go to work. So, you know, typically we used to train in the afternoon after she got home, but if you can get an efficient, decent workout at home before the Workday even starts, why not.

[00:08:39] Why not? You will always know what your energy level is. In the early morning before work, you will not always know what your energy level is afterwards. Right? Very, very, very true. And you know what? There's another thing guys, like you and I, we love to do two a days. Yeah, it [00:09:00] took me 47 minutes to do my training.

[00:09:01] This warning. That was a raw 47 minutes. There was no drive to the gym. There was no going to the locker room. There was no go back into the locker room. There's not get back in the car and drive away from the, I probably conserved at least a half hour minimum by training at home. That's a half hour. I could come home this evening before I eat and do a real quick bust out.

[00:09:23] Yeah, it's amazing. What's an extra 30 minutes can do for you really do. It really is so. And I think a lot more people are going to be training at home and, and if not exclusively, then certainly for, um, let's say a couple of workouts a week, which is a great compromise. I can see myself doing metabolic conditioning work at home and then going to the gym for the heavy work.

[00:09:50] I actually have been thinking, I think, you know, I could do this kind of stuff at home. And then I'll just go to the gym when I want to do heavy leg presses and stuff like that because I don't have [00:10:00] a leg press machine at home. I have a friend that's doing just that. We'll, we'll talk about that in the psychology behind it.

[00:10:07] And it's interesting. So yeah, and a real heads up. So since everyone is literally home right now, and everyone is literally on the computer right now and on the internet. Everything is running slower. So the comments I, I posted a comment just now test and it showed up, but I'm checking the feed because not everything that people commenting is showing up in the feed on, on my screen.

[00:10:34] Patrick, Roger said, I have always trained at home, never had a gym membership ever. And he, he competed and strong man. He ran the strong man competition. So listen to that. Yeah. Pat Patrick is, no, I'm a newbie to this. If you can achieve those levels of size and strength training at home, you can do it anywhere.

[00:10:53] And technically weight is always trade that home. Okay. He's had a gym the size of a normal, you know, a [00:11:00] commercial gym, but it's at his home. Right. And you know, that's about the, the pinnacle of strength that you're going to get. And he achieved that training at home. What's that? Oh. Yeah. He said  you don't have to be at West side.

[00:11:20] So up your a so, okay. Our first question comes from a gentleman named Marvin leads, and he says, I'm a new listener and love your show. Enjoy discussing the supplements of yesteryear. Do you remember a product called methoxy ISO flavor on, yes, it was popular years ago, but I can't find it anywhere now.

[00:11:42] Yeah. You know, now that they think about it, all of the, the discussions that we've been having about supplemental yesteryear, I forgot to mention methoxy flavor. Uh, and it's got an interesting history behind it. So he knows kind of the, the marketing, [00:12:00] and then I'll let you in on how it actually worked or didn't as the case may be.

[00:12:05] So, in 1977, there was a Hungarian, uh, pharmaceutical company. By the name of chin, Nolan, uh, which filed a patent for this new flavor on five methoxy a seven methoxy ice of flame. Oh, it was said, it was said to work by increasing protein synthesis and, and nitrogen retention, uh, in much the same way that steroids do, but right.

[00:12:34] Without supposedly all of the side effects. That sounds familiar by now. Uh, so it was patented and they still in fact, still have a patent on it. And the patent describes a flavor on that was designed to promote muscle growth while at the same time, uh, increasing fat loss. So one company in particular, way [00:13:00] back when in this country Biotest.

[00:13:02] The boys This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. They were really hot on it, and in fact, their first product, uh, was something called . It's a related compound. I use both of them. I use both of them. Yeah. Okay. So, so it flopped pretty bad. But then, uh, they came out and they settle. Hold on, hold on. We got it right now. We have something here called methoxy seven, and that's the real active chemical.

[00:13:33] And, um, they widely claim that it works. And I'll never forget this marketing seven times better than it Proflavanol . I hadn't, hadn't had these two flavors actually come from the cattle ranching industry, don't they? They use these in cattle feed and they saw a great deal more nitrogen retention and a great deal more muscle creation and cattle.

[00:13:55] Right. At one time. Yeah. That, that data is still out [00:14:00] there too. That's why, that's why I took it, cause I read that, I read, I read that research and I thought, well this must be legit, you know? Right. Because there are other legitimate things they use in cattle feed, like TMG and you stare on to, to improve the muscle of fabric and trend bologne and trend blown.

[00:14:20] Uh, so some things work better than others. But, um, remember it, you know, if it works seven times better than it raw flavor and seven times zero is still zero. And so between methoxy sevens, uh, what they described as a chicken wire, cholesterol delivery system, and the other leading product at the time, Centracs is central ball, which was said to be.

[00:14:46] Uh, nanoparticles, whatever the hell they call it, you would expect that this product would do at least something, right? Well, in the real world, the product tanked. [00:15:00] Nobody that I remember had anything good to say about it. It was then claimed by bio test. That unit, there was a university research published.

[00:15:12] In the prestigious journal medicine and science and sports and exercise showing that combining methoxy seven with a proper diet and regular training program helped individuals build muscle and simultaneously lose fat. So here we have the claim, which is, you know, supposedly backing up with the patent, uh, seek to accomplish.

[00:15:38] I actually looked that study up because it was news to me. I don't remember hearing about this way back when, but here are some of the details. So some well known names in sports nutrition. Thomas insulin and Joey Antonio, uh, other folks from the university of Nebraska. You evaluated the effects [00:16:00] of methoxy, uh, on training adaptations in 14 healthy resistance trained men.

[00:16:08] Uh, so they weren't completely newbies, and they were given 800 milligrams per day of methoxy seven by bio tests. Formula for eight weeks. Subjects were instructed to maintain their normal dietary intake and training volumes throughout the study. Long story short, at the end of eight weeks, they found subjects gained that got the methoxy gained, uh, about a kilo of muscle more than controls and lost a kilo of fat more.

[00:16:43] Now, that's not bad for a natural product, but. Here's the inside scoop. The study was funded entirely by Biotest and carry it out at various points by Thomas insulin. This guy, [00:17:00] Darren Von Cameron and Joey Antonio, it was never published in full. You cannot find the full study. All you can find is the abstract, which you know, without the details behind it.

[00:17:12] You don't know. I, I've actually had a very popular guy who has a very popular supplement, want to come on my show and talk about his supplement. And he sent me the abstract and I say, could you send me the full study? And he said, well, the full study isn't completed yet. And this was going on for three years and I didn't have, I don't want to see your abstract.

[00:17:35] I don't want to see your interpretation. I want to see the actual data. Before I promoted him over the years. Yeah. I'm all ears cause right. Who wouldn't want a natural compound that works like this? But, but more importantly, here's what you never heard from Biotest or teenage  for the next five years.

[00:17:54] Richard Krieter another wellness, I think he's at the university of Connecticut here. Uh, and [00:18:00] his colleagues did more extensive research into the, into the compound, and it was published in the. International society of sports nutrition in that journal, 2006 so we're five years later now. This time the results were real disappointing.

[00:18:18] Nevertheless, Biotest continued to sell methoxy seven. To its unwitting audience, which is one of the big issues that I have with these guys. But look, here's the bottom line. Neither IH Proflavonal nor methoxy isoflavone did anything for the majority of people that use those products. Who, whoever's company it was Biotest did try to repackage methoxy one last time in a product for women.

[00:18:50] Um, it was called seven, very simply, seven in their new super-duper gel absorption capsules. [00:19:00] Uh, but when that flopped, mercifully, they finally threw the towel in, and that's the last I ever heard of methoxy ice of flavor. It may still be out there. Uh, but I wouldn't, I wouldn't invest yourself harder and dollars in it.

[00:19:16] One of the things that you mentioned, we kind of glossed over is that the methoxy isoflavone was in 100% cholesterol. That is exactly. What it was is 100% cholesterol. The cholesterol alone would probably increase some hormones for some people, and some people may have seen something from it, but it wasn't from the flavor and it was from the cholesterol.

[00:19:39] Right. I gotta get it. Got, I'm sorry. I said it was awful tasty too. According to getting it taste, it tasted great. I literally, what I want, I want them to drink. I like drink a swig of it, but I thought, wow, that's a lot of cholesterol and in retrospect, the winter hurt me. I got to give a couple shout outs.

[00:19:55] So Patrick, wat Rogers is watching live. Jeff Clifton is [00:20:00] watching live. Ooh, Tom say gone. Who is my social media guru is watching live. Tommy D is watching live. Tommy, if you messaged me on Facebook. And send me your email address. I will email you an invoice so that you can get the thrive cause I know you're still having problems.

[00:20:17] A lot of people are still ordering it. They're not having the problem. But I'll send you an invoice. Just tell me how many jugs you want and I'll get it to you later today. Uh, and then of course, John peaks. I don't know where, where are you John? Are you, what part of the country are you in? Are you traveling right now?

[00:20:30] Uh, Estelle yo just joined. He said methoxy sucked. I used it as well. I, unfortunately, I can't put these things up. Some of them are just showing up now, literally like 15 minutes. Uh, after they're posted. So I'm just gonna read them live, uh, right here. But anyway, yeah. Mythos. It did suck. There's no doubt about it.

[00:20:52] Okay. So the next question comes from, uh, Chris Albertson. He says, like, you. [00:21:00] My gym is closed. Needless to say, the home gym thing is a hot topic. I'd like to know what you have, why and what would be ideal. Because when this is all over, I might just stop going to commercial gyms entirely. There it is, right?

[00:21:16] I mean, these, these gyms, uh. Who knows where y'all were. Most of their members are going to be when this is all over, but I feel that questions like this before. Right. The reason why I chose to answer this one is because of what he said about what is ideal, because that is obviously different depending on who you are and what your goals are.

[00:21:40] What I have is easy for me to articulate, right? What, what is ideal depends on you. Uh, and as we'll see, that can greatly affect the type of equipment you get in. Therefore, the financial outlay. But first, let's start with what I have and why. [00:22:00] Uh, I have over a thousand pounds of free weights. I have that specific amount because I can lift nearly that much in the top range.

[00:22:10] Rec pool. Okay. Which is a movement that I personally consider essential to maximum strength. And I'll get into that a little bit later. I did this as I could afford it. I didn't buy a thousand pounds right away. I bought a 300 pound set, and then from there I resolved to pick up things at yard sales, uh, or online where I could get the best deal.

[00:22:36] Likewise. Uh, I think you should try to buy as much weight as you can handle on your biggest movement. So listen, if, if the movement that you're strongest at is the squat, and you can squat 500 pounds by 500 pounds, and by, you know, lots of, let's say tens, fives in two and a half. And [00:23:00] even look into getting smaller increment plates made way back when I had half pound and quarter pound plates made magnetic.

[00:23:10] Right. They were magnetic. They slapped on the outside of a plate. Actually, there were no, the ones I got weren't, Oh no. They were made by Piedmont design associates. I don't know if they're still in business or not, but uh, they monogrammed them and the whole nine yards. But little plates will serve you well.

[00:23:28] Um, I also have an adjustable bench, primarily at this point for its versatility. And in so far as doing everything from seated, uh, dumbbell presses, right? For the shoulders to flat benches, to one arm rowing movements, I can no longer bench with a barbell. Um, but I'll also say this one other thing, do not buy cheap.

[00:23:55] When you're buying an adjustable bench in particular, if you [00:24:00] intend on benching heavy, and you must do so in a power rack unless you have a spotter, but you can only imagine the carnage that's going to result from a, you know, cheap bench collapsing under a 300 pound bench press or more. So please consider that when you make your purchase.

[00:24:22] I also have power blocks there. The one of the first ones to come out. It's the set that adjusts from like five to 100 pounds. Those are the big ones. Those are the big ones. They, they, they, they fell them now as a five to 50 and then you can add the other 50 pounds in this, in their separate plates. That attachments that come out now.

[00:24:42] I want to say that I saw a pair of that went up to one 20 or one 50 but I imagine maybe they just stopped carrying those because, well, they still have them, but you have to buy, so you buy the one, you start, everybody starts out with the one 50s. And then you can add, they have different packages where you could [00:25:00] take the one fifties up to 100 or you could take the one hundreds up to one 50.

[00:25:05] You just keep adding them back on. So you can, you can still get them, but you just have to buy them and you buy the base set and then you buy the add on separate. Right. Um, I also have a trap bar that's rated to a thousand pounds for, for everything from dead lifts to the rack pulls that I mentioned. Two farmers walks and overhead presses.

[00:25:28] There is a plethora of things you can do with that trap bar, particularly if you buy one where the sleeve that holds the weights is not just the standard 10 inches you can buy. I'm pretty sure you can buy 14 and up to a 17 inch, which holds an insane amount of weight. For one I have I think is 13 and a half or 14 inches.

[00:25:54] you can get a thousand pounds on there. 10 40 fives on each side. Right. Or what, that's at [00:26:00] 900, but still, and then count the, uh, usually they wait 45 pounds. Those things, the bar, right. At least at least. Yeah. So, you know, is that the ideal setup for me? The answer is yes. Um, but it depends what you're looking for, you know, certainly if you had the height, which I don't.

[00:26:22] I would encourage you, one of your first purchases to be a power cage. Um, and in fact, and an entire home gym consisting of let's say a power cage and a chin dip station. You know, you get a whole lot done and a whole lot of muscle belt with adjustable bench, you know, all with that. Um, the actual, the two pieces.

[00:26:50] Though, having two or three very basic pieces of equipment prevents people from performing a lot of silly little [00:27:00] nonsense, isolation movements that aren't going to do Jack, except maybe even if your recovery ability now. If you want to flush blood into a muscle for, you know, rehabilitation purposes, things like that.

[00:27:15] Sure. Okay. Go ahead and do that then. But you know, the question you really need to ask yourself is this, Oh, is the amount of equipment I have enough to get strong and build a healthy degree of muscle? For most people, the answer is a resounding yes with a bare minimalists set up. Now, if you want to maximize your anaerobic endurance for something like, let's say MMA, that's quite another discussion, you know, for that, I would recommend you start with things if you have the room.

[00:27:50] Uh, like a Prowler, which you can push and pull until you puke your guts. I want one of those so bad right now. In fact, that's the thing I think I'm going to buy. I was almost going to buy a trap bar, [00:28:00] but at least it talked me out of it because the reality is I don't have any room for it, but I want to get a Prowler.

[00:28:05] I'll find a way to make room for it because I want one of those. Yup. Yup. Sandbags. Um, or the or the economy version. But certainly medicine balls, Lu, various weights. Uh, those Airdyne resistance bikes are a hell of a workout. I was the other day, a heavy bag punching and heavy bag is still some of the best cardio you'll ever get, especially if you, you know, move around, uh, adjustable kettlebells.

[00:28:31] Like you have Carl and battle ropes and a few other particulars. You know, look, if you have enough knowledge up here. You don't need anything other than a space because if you have guts and gravity and knowledge about bodyweight work. You can get insanely strong. Look at guys in prison. They're ripped and they're muscular, and they get, all they get is crap food to eat [00:29:00] right?

[00:29:01] They're not getting the highest or the, you know, biological value way milk and whey protein, things like this. You know, they're getting two slices of white bread and Biff. They're lucky beans and rice and maybe something else to try to create. A, uh, an essential biologically bio high biological value protein look.

[00:29:25] Um, here's the bottom line on this. A gym is usually inversely proportional to, um, given the, the amount of stuff that they have machines and gadgets and gizmos, right? To build muscle, meaning. If you, if all you had was a chin dip station and a trap bar, you could build as much muscle as you're ever going to.

[00:29:55] You know, your physique will allow, you can maximize your genetics pretty much. [00:30:00] But those two things over time build out from there. Um, I think just like you mentioned Carl, the top of the show, a lot of people are going to be introduced for the first time. It's a home gym training out of necessity and find where the magic really is and the magic is pulling your own home gym workouts.

[00:30:25] Yeah. A Jeff Clifton. I think I can prove that. I concur with your statement. I do have a, a small adjustable bench in the basement. Uh, but there you go, man. There's my, uh, is my kettle bells. Right? Adjustable two adjustables one a static 55 pounder, and there's my X three bar. I did. Oh, that's the other thing I did upright rows.

[00:30:48] Yeah. Combined with bent over back rows. So I grabbed the two 65 pounders and did back rows with them. And then I did upright rows with the gray band, the light band, and I got a great [00:31:00] workout. Like I'm thinking about doing it again later, to be honest with now, Lisa's watching today, along with Michael's Avadine.

[00:31:06] Thanks for being here. Uh, and she's probably gonna say, this is what you do. You do something, but then you take it too far. And she's right. I do. I, you know, I, I'm the, I'm that guy, so there's no doubt it's fun though, isn't it? I mean, T to me, after that home gym is set up, you can have a blast with that because you don't have the commute time to the gym.

[00:31:29] You don't have to wait for equipment. You can come up with the shortest or the longest workouts that you want. It's always open. It's never crowded, and they're always playing the music you like. That's it. Uh, let's see. We got another question here that we're going to read before we go into our next break or first break.

[00:31:48] This one comes from Chris Albertson. Am I saying that right? Alright. Let's see. Yeah, Albertson. No. L like, ah, that's the one I just read. I'm sorry. Uh, uh, [00:32:00] paying attention here. Here we go. Randy Hales. Randy says, uh, have you ever heard of a product called anabolic effect? It seems to be getting a lot of play on the boards with a lot of great feedback.

[00:32:12] You got to watch out. They may be hiring guys to do that on the boards. That's, that's an old technique when you launch a product, but when you have a product, yeah. If people aren't already aware of that, there are a lot of buttons paid for testimonials. Um, and in fact, a lot of the, the product debuts are set ups from the beginning.

[00:32:32] And by that, what I mean is the board rep of XYZ company will show up and say, Hey, we got a great, great new muscle building product and we're giving 20 bottles away. You know, people are post their results. Yeah. But all those people are already on board. Exactly. Yeah. They've already been given something for free.

[00:32:55] So they feel an obligation at the very least to [00:33:00] post, um, optimistic things about the product. And that's in fact why I never gave away free bottles of Cynthia. And they asked people, here, post your feedback because your feedback is going to be biased, but be that as it may, uh, I have read a lot about this product too, on the, um, antibiotic minds boards.

[00:33:24] And that is actually though, in my opinion, one of the better boards. So I started to take that with a, you know, I take that with a lot of credibility, much more so than other boards. So, but having said that, here's my take on the matter. Um, this product purports to be another quote, unquote, natural anabolic.

[00:33:46] And so as we look at the ingredients they can, they consist of things that. Are not typical. And the consumer looks at that as a good thing, right? Because these are new in the old stuff and none of that work. [00:34:00] So, um, it consists of Korean mistletoe, which they have studies they're showing. It's been shown to regulate gene expression related to muscular, like per trophy and, and atrophy, working against atrophy, um, and stimulating mitochondrial activity.

[00:34:21] Uh, there's another compound in it. Herb Arab poultry at japonica. Someone described this to me as Japanese Jensen when I called and asked him about it. Um, and the, uh, that plant that extract has constituents, chemical constituents that are probably familiar to most people, things like epi, catechin, uh, folic acid, which I've discussed on this product before.

[00:34:48] Tore manic acid. LA get gas and things like that. Um, and so they're saying that studies show the, again, the expression of [00:35:00] myogenic genes, my old, my old and uh, myo, uh, HC heavy chain, all these things, mining by my old Kentucky home. Right. Exactly. My, uh, Ramadi raid was another one. Uh, and then she legit, which I've talked about before.

[00:35:23] Here, it's the Indian cousin of the Russian product. Moomiyo it is high in fulvic acids and it does improve the absorption of things. So that's certainly not going to hurt to have it in there. Um, and a couple other odds and ends that people may or may not be familiar with. Let me be Frank. I see nothing here that will be around in five years, not, not one of these ingredients, nevermind the product.

[00:35:57] The reviews I've seen have almost [00:36:00] all been. Quote, unquote sponsored. Um, and the reported gains to my mind are nothing that couldn't be attributed to tightening up one's diet and training. Uh, there are many compounds that look magnificent in studies. Things like ursolic acid in the real world, they fall flat on their face for many reasons, not the least of which.

[00:36:28] It's terrible bioavailability and or solar gas. It's one of them. So if a pure isolated, uh, high dose or Versola acid doesn't work orally and it doesn't, how is a much, much smaller amount, right? Going to work when found is a part of this other obscure plant. It's not. So, look, here's the bottom line. If you're going to invest in herbal extracts.

[00:36:56] You might as well stick with the ones that have been around for [00:37:00] decades and every Pete buys it because it's, if that's the case, then it's doing something for consumers. It may not be growing as much muscle as we all want, but at least it's doing something. I'm talking about things like tribulus terrestris or a lot of, uh,  car from Lloyd's extract.

[00:37:19] Uh, various strains of Jensen. Korean red seems to be the one that works best for people. Food. I'm sorry. Food. The most atomology natural thing in the friggin world is food. We have a half, we have half of our population that is obese. Fat undergoes anibolism as well as muscle. Food is the most anabolic thing.

[00:37:44] Get your diet straight, make sure you're eating at least one gram of protein per pound of body weight, not just for days and weeks. For months, you won't need supplements. Yeah, this product costs, it retails for about 50 bucks, 50 bucks, buys a lot of [00:38:00] eggs, oatmeal and stuff. That really does build muscles.

[00:38:04] So, you know, I look, my guess is this inside of 10 years. This stuff is going to fall into the same category as methoxy ISOL flavor. It's not going to be even around, you know, and on the methoxy ISO flavor on front, it always baffled me why cows cattle saw a dramatic  and there was no w you know, this was, this was done by universities where they looked at adding just a small amount of methoxy isoflavone to a feed actually produced a dramatic increase.

[00:38:37] In, in muscle weight in these cows. Maybe it works for vegans. Maybe it does. I mean, cows have three stomachs. Cows extract stuff differently than we do. You know, maybe, maybe it doesn't work for humans, but it works for cows. I mean, it's a, it's a, it's a legitimate thing. Um, yeah. We have a, we have a couple of questions that [00:39:00] I'll work in.

[00:39:00] We're going to take a break and maybe they'll actually appear where I can just share them. Yeah, they did. There's literally, as I said, that they're showing up, or we got a question from Stelvio that we'll get to plus more. Uh, but before we do that and we take our break, I want to mention something. Um, this is not a sponsor, but I got to tell people about it.

[00:39:19] It's called mind bullet. Okay. And it's a, uh, it's Mark Bell's. Um, it says premium tea capsules, but it's, it's, it's Kratom. It's Kratom. Uh, what, how do you say it? Ma? Misogynist. Bessie OSIS. Neutrogena. Speciosa okay, so. I have taken Kratom for some time now, you know, a couple of years on and off, and I use this very expensive product by OPM S Mitch, ridiculously expensive.

[00:39:50] And it worked for me. I took two of these capsules and I feel better than I do on the other Kratom it doesn't make me, no, I never got nauseous. [00:40:00] But I could feel like I feel uplifted. I feel excited, I feel focused, I feel happy. It's amazing. And it's called mind bullet, and you can get This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and so I asked Mark for a coupon code.

[00:40:15] He says, we don't give out coupon codes. I says, Oh, come on. So he said, use my brother Chris's coupon code. You know Chris bell is, he's the guy who directed, produced a bigger, stronger, faster. And so Chris, if you go there and you order anything and you use the, the, the code, Chris bell, all one word, lowercase, you'll get 20% off.

[00:40:37] Whatever you put in your shopping cart. This is, if you like Kratom Kratom however you want to say it. Mr Regina, especially Yosis, if you like it, you have to try this stuff. It's different. I'm telling you, it's no nausea, no stomach, nothing. It's fantastic stuff. And he's not a sponsor. He's not a sponsor, but hopefully, hopefully will [00:41:00] this and me because as you know, I've got a pretty long history.

[00:41:03] Well, it's great though. He's got, he's got a potion that has eight grams in a liquid. I don't even know how to use that. I couldn't take eight grams. I don't know if it's a higher amount because it's, it's just the, uh, uh, certain components or something and maybe it's an extract or something. Yeah, it's gotta be an extra eight grams is almost three times what the typical dose that would make me vomit immediately.

[00:41:30] Eight grams of powdered Cray, Tom. But yeah, it's a good product that deserves your attention. We're going to take a break. When we come back. We have a question from Anthony Massaro and we have questions from live viewers here. Ah, so stay tuned. We'll break on. This is one supplement that delivers. You're listening to the superhuman channel where ripped and we're ready.

[00:41:54] Welcome back. So dr Steve BA toe is watching. Of course [00:42:00] the O R is closed. Otherwise he'd be in there fixing some cripples. Person's foot right now. I got to get him on the show because I want to talk to him about what we need to pay attention to as athletes. Uh, I'm telling you, it's a horrible, horrible life changing event when there's something wrong with your foot and then a, sometimes even if the surgery you continue, I have, I have some balance issues because the left foot just wants to rock like a rocking horse.

[00:42:25] Uh, but I, I got to get him. Dr Steve, if you're still watching, let, let's talk about getting you on the air to talk about that. I think it would be a very intriguing show and it's, it's very overlooked. Um, so before we go on to, uh, Anthony Massaro has a question, let's get Steve , who's sitting here watching.

[00:42:44] He said, what's your tech take on nanotechnology? Lower doses at alleged increased potency. So I'm going to jump in here first. Okay. Real quick. Sure. The problem with nanotechnology is, are they really encapsulating [00:43:00] properly? A lot of people out there? Well, first of all, lyposomal delivery is nanotechnology technically.

[00:43:07] Um. Being able to bring things to a single molecule and put them in a package that then enters the bloodstream easier and faster is basically what we talk about when we talk about nanotechnology. Anything that's so small that it can be absorbed faster. Now, a lot of people think just pulverizing a compound into its smallest size.

[00:43:28] Is nanotechnology. Math not so true, but giving it some sort of vehicle to ride along in is what we really call nanotechnology. And not everybody's doing it right. That's the real problem. How are they doing? I know people, I just think that taking lecithin water and a supplement and and putting it in the blender and spinning it, and you've got lyposomal vitamin C for instance, not true lyposomal encapsulation requires temperature and requires ultrasonic agitation, [00:44:00] and even then it takes a long time for everything to become encapsulated.

[00:44:04] Go ahead, Rob. Well, I think I would concede that making some chemicals much, much smaller has the potential to improve results. With the exception of micronized creatine. I have never used a product claiming to be nanoparticles that I thought worked any different than the same product without being nanoparticles.

[00:44:31] So, you know, Mike, my guess is like you said, Carl, um, there's a right way and a wrong way. Most companies are doing it the wrong way. Uh, and that's a Mark. It's marketing for, for nine out of 10 instances where I think you're reading about it, it's marketing. Now when it comes to something like lyposomal vitamin C, 100% believe in it, you know, get a company that does that and does it right then yes, you're going to get a hell of a lot more vitamin C.

[00:45:00] [00:45:00] So the target tissues, then you otherwise what? Let's go ahead and answer this question quickly as well. Okay, so Jeff Clifton wants to know, what is your optimal dose of ashwagandha? The research says 600 milligrams a day. Uh, I've talked to people that go to 1200. I've talked to people that take as little as 200.

[00:45:25] And seem to get a benefit. Ashwagandha is one of the more, uh, let's say successful adaptogens that people use. Uh, they, they report fairly universally. I feel better. Uh, I'm less stressed. I'm not as tightly wound when I'm using it. And a fair number of people say that they sleep better. I would put it, as far as adaptogens go, I'd say it's probably in the top three.

[00:45:55] But to answer your question, most often, 600 milligrams a day [00:46:00] of the quality ashwagandha extract. Okay, so now we go onto a, this was one that was written in last week. Anthony Massaro. He says, I'm an old school lifter who's unfortunately lost a lot of muscle. Can you tell me how fast I can get it back? Or if I can build a lot of new muscle at all?

[00:46:20] I'm around your age 50. I lost you. What part did you lose? I, I SA I heard him. Can you tell me if I can get it back? Oh, can I tell him? Can you tell me if I can gain it back or can I even build a lot of muscle? I'm around. I'm around your age. I'm 50 all right, so the answer is it depends. And so it depends on things like how much muscle you originally built.

[00:46:51] By what means you did that and, and some other particulars about the situation. Uh, and so because I have such [00:47:00] limited information kinda from that question, although I'm glad he gave me his age, I'm going to give you two examples at the extremes to illustrate how different people's situations, you know, really are and really can be, let's assume lifter a is today he weighs 160 pounds.

[00:47:19] Uh, any desires to get to one 90, really muscular one night. He has been as big as 200 pounds in the past. Uh, let's say when he was 19, 20 years old playing college football, but he did so using antibiotics pretty much from the start of his training at age 17. And so let's further assume he held that weight 200 pounds for a year or two at the most.

[00:47:47] At that point, he gets off all antibiotics and you know, has only trained, let's say sporadically, since the likelihood that he's going to build an [00:48:00] additional 30 pounds of muscle at age 50 is slim. Real slim. It's not impossible, but it'd be very, very difficult. Yeah. He'd have to dedicate everything that he does.

[00:48:11] Every action he does would have to be exclusively for this one goal. Everything. Sleep, eat, drugs, everything. Yeah, exactly. 100% right. That's my opinion, and really, I think that's the truth. Now, lift or be is today 60 or 160 pounds. He's been as much as 200 pounds in his youth too. He reached that weight at the age of, let's say the same 19 2021 after five hard years of training, right?

[00:48:44] Without drugs, and he held that weight for a period of 10 years. A decade. Or thereabouts, regaining 30 pounds of muscle for him is a lot more likely since his body [00:49:00] achieved that feat and more in the past. The only limiting factor at age 50 I think is probably going to be his endocrine system. You're just not going to re, you know, replace the super high levels of testosterone that you have.

[00:49:17] But if his endocrine system is in fact intact. I would say it's a 50 50 bet. Assuming. He does everything. Right. Right. Well, you just said, Carl, I'm glad you did that because it was the single question I asked myself for all those years between 15 and 25 is what I'm doing in the next 15 minutes conducive to putting on size and strength.

[00:49:44] Because if it isn't anything more than that, it's a waste of time. That was literally the question and when light and when life is simple and you're young, you see that. Yeah, selfish, let's say, you know? Yeah. And you can, and what's more, [00:50:00] um, your powers to eat, digest, and assimilate food are much, much better when you're young, you know?

[00:50:08] I'm not saying you can't do that as you. Yeah. But the gut, the gut gets, one of the things that happens as you age, and my, my deep dives in so much research least can tell you that. Constantly reading studies about this is the gut and how it actually contributes to your aging. So the gut slows down. It doesn't want to digest food.

[00:50:27] You got to turn to, I mean, that's, that's the point. You've got to do everything right? You gotta take, you gotta take digestive enzymes with meals so you're getting everything out of your food. I mean, it's just everything, right? When you're young, you go out drinking on the weekend, going to the gym, train a couple of days in a row, and you blow up like a freak because everything's still new.

[00:50:45] All your tissue is still new. Youth is a wonderful thing. So, so what the moral of the story is this. If you maxed out your genetics without the aid of bodybuilding drugs [00:51:00] and hold that condition for let's say a decade or more, then regaining the muscle, the muscle that you have lost later on is going to be a lot easier.

[00:51:12] I didn't say it would be easy. Let's say it would be a lot easy, or one of the amazing things that I, you know, again, I'm glad you brought up the eating thing. When I was young, I could eat six or seven meals a day every single day, and I did that for years on end. I'm not saying that was the right thing to do all the time, but I did it every single day for years, 10 to 15 years today.

[00:51:44] And for the last 20 years, I have practiced intermittent fasting had I had, I done the same when I was young, given my somatitis, you know, [00:52:00] ectomorph it would not have worked out well. There was no way I was putting on a lot of muscle on an intermittent fasting diet, some muscle, perhaps leaner muscle.

[00:52:12] Probably likely, very likely. Um, but take advantage of those years. You know, if you're between 15 and 25, I tell everyone that'll listen, get as big and as strong as possible. Because roundabout by age 35, 40, you're going to have all the muscle that you're ever going to have. And so, you know, you might be able to lose 20 pounds of fat.

[00:52:40] At age 40 or 50, you're probably not putting 20 pounds of muscle on at that age in a year. So, you know, think about those things as you move through your youth. The one thing that drugs do do for you that can contribute to gaining more [00:53:00] muscle as you age is, um, by drugs allow you to be stronger than you are.

[00:53:08] At that moment in time capable of being without them. And a lot of people talk about, Oh yeah, but you lose the gains. Not really. You lose a lot of the gains in strength. You don't lose all of them. When your body becomes accustomed to handling heavy weight, um, it can get back there very quickly to handling heavy weight handling.

[00:53:31] Heavy weight is, is all up here and the brain doesn't really change a whole lot. While the body may, and so if you were a guy who with drugs was pulling 600 pounds and squat and five or 600 pounds, and you know, you're benching heavy and you're training like a freak and a beast, that that leaves, um, the capacity to be strong even without drugs later in life because you, you know [00:54:00] what it feels like you're not afraid of it and you're willing to go there.

[00:54:04] Really, the difference between. Someone who's strong and someone who's not is actually the level of ability to to exercise. Disinhibition. We see this in studies about grunting, so grunting actually makes you two to 5% stronger. That is really a lot when you think about it, and it's not because of the grunt per se, because they've tried to.

[00:54:33] A manage exhaling without grunting and they and people aren't as strong. The, the, the willingness to be in an open gym with lots of people and go and push that weight up means you are less inhibited, inhibited, and strength. A strength. Examples of strength in public require a level of disinhibition. [00:55:00] You can't be shy.

[00:55:01] You don't see shy people being strong. You know what I mean? You see a gregarious outward people being strong, and so what I would say to you is that don't be disheartened if you did use drugs early on because it created a threshold of your willingness to push yourself. It created a threshold of you to be less inhibited and that leads to being stronger without the drugs later in life.

[00:55:26] That's my own personal experience. I don't think I'd be as strong as I am still today if I didn't use drugs in my, uh, early fifties through, through my fifties, which was really what I did, that, that's really the only one I used them. And yeah, they, the, I acquired the willingness and the understanding that I can be strong from those drugs.

[00:55:51] Yeah. And I'm, you know, we can debate the reasons what I think it's a fair statement, uh, that guys, even after they've stopped, the [00:56:00] drugs are bigger and stronger than they otherwise would have been. If they never used them. Yes. And you know, you'll find the very rare exceptions out there, but I think that's a pretty good, hard and fast rule.

[00:56:16] Uh, the next question comes from I gotta I gotta open this one up cause it was actually too long. For me to get up on the screen. So let me find, this is from Roy McCloud. So Roy says, let me get to it. Here we go. Roy says, I really liked some of the, your perspectives on supplements, especially the nod to essential amino acids.

[00:56:36] I've used them for a long time with nothing less than excellent results. Why then RBCA is so popular and why don't more people use EAs. He's made a very shrewd observation. Um, because despite the fact that more and more authorities are acknowledging the superiority of essential aminos, [00:57:00] most pre-workout and other formulas, uh, have failed to follow through and use them.

[00:57:07] And the reasons, frankly, are primarily twofold. One, essential aminos are considerably more expensive than branch chains. And two. Branch chain aminos are a lot easier to flavor. So money and taste are two key issues for the consumer. Then, and supplement companies know this. Um, you know, they don't want to pay extra for an ingredient that the consumer doesn't perceive, uh, as, as, as tolerable.

[00:57:44] So. Why add essential aminos is going to screw up the flavor of our pre-workout, and we're going to risk losing some of our customers despite the fact that it's obvious. Essential aminos are head and [00:58:00] shoulders above the branch chains. But, um, if you haven't noticed. Most pre-workouts today are essentially the same little difference in the, in their ingredients.

[00:58:12] Sometimes you'll see one as a little more than the other, but they all basically use aim things and it's pathetic. Um, the supplement companies then have been using the following differentiator as unbelievable as it sounds, flavor their flavor system. I've seen everything in pre-workouts from sour Apple to cotton candy to firecracker ice pops, right.

[00:58:45] And ridiculous labels to go along with them. Um, and sadly I see kids using just flavor as their buying criteria alone. For their pre-workouts [00:59:00] because they know it too. They know what these things are. They're powder caffeine sometimes with some nitric oxide, you know, uh, releasing ingredients. I mean, right.

[00:59:12] Uh, which caffeine by the way, is facile constructor and works against what? Hey, why let the science get in the way of anything. Uh, and, and flavor is the big differentiator. The research backing the ingredients should be what sells a product, but they're buying it because it tastes good. Mark my words though, on something.

[00:59:36] Okay, this is going to lead to more than a few cases of caffeine poisoning and overdoses and maybe if they take enough of it or they have an underlying medical condition, death. That is the sad truth about what's going on in so far as essential aminos, failing [01:00:00] to overtake the branch chain aminos in the marketplace.

[01:00:03] And if you doubt that, um, you know, visit any supplement shop and watch, sit there, sit there for an hour, two hours, 10 hours. Two days, 10 days. Watch what these kids come in and buy and listen to them. You know, it'll make you sick, but listen to what they say and how they're deciding to byproducts. Uh, if you doubt any of what I just said about the science anyway, spend just 30 minutes on pub med reading and looking up studies about the merits and the drawbacks.

[01:00:41] Of BCAA supplementation, and then research the same about essential aminos. I think I know what you're going to be shocked at, what you find out about the branching, you know, especially some of the more recent research, um, pointing to [01:01:00] issues with blood sugar, some very concerning data as far as I'm concerned.

[01:01:08] Mr. reading that. So that is, that's where the marketplace stands anyway on essential aminos and BCAs it's all about, you know, flavor and cost. Yeah. That, and they're more expensive. They work better. They don't necessarily taste good. As you point out. Right? Who cares about that? You know who at the end of the day, unfortunately, the people who don't understand, they don't understand the science.

[01:01:34] Like you said, flavor is more pure to them. We're going to take our last commercial break of when we come back, we have the blueprint tip of the day. Stick around.

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[01:01:51] Welcome back to the blueprint Powell hour. You can go to  dot com and learn a lot, [01:02:00] or you don't have to go there and just be satisfied with your ignorance. Yes. The blueprint. Tip of the day. Yeah. Yeah. The tip of the day is some thoughts on what it takes to train successfully at home and understand, uh, that's a little different than, than just setting up a home gym.

[01:02:26] So there's been a lot of talk about that recently, and rightfully so. People. Want to know how to go about it and how much they should invest. I mean, you know, we've talked already in glowing terms about the things you can get done. Um, and it's with good reason, right? Gyms have closed. I don't know about you, but, uh, there's no end in sight as to when they'll reopen, hopefully soon.

[01:02:52] But, you know, there's no guarantees. And that is a major concern, especially to people like me who rely [01:03:00] on it for. Things beyond just, you know, getting stronger. My mental health is very much dependent, uh, on the gym and the satisfaction that I get from it. Uh, for some people it's a stronger cardiovascular system.

[01:03:18] Uh, they just can't go out and run for various reasons. Like, right. You have a foot issue, Carl. Um, and for some people it's keeping large amounts of muscle on and yes. For some people, even socialization. So a home gym might be necessary and not just for reasons that, Hey, my gym has closed. Um, when you decide to train at home though, you need to know a few things because it is distinctly different in some ways than going to a gym.

[01:03:52] Things like the kind of mindset that you need to have. I would say that a certain [01:04:00] personality is required or at least better suits the home gym training and the kind of goals that you will need to set. The truth is not everyone is cut out to train at home and there's nothing wrong with that. I have lots of friends who thrive at the gym because they like to see and be seen.

[01:04:25] And you know, there's, that can be used in a positive, constructive way, which I'll talk about a little bit later. Um, but again, that's, that's a personality type that is almost diametrically opposed from someone who has the ability to walk into very quiet, sometimes very small space and push themselves. To the point where they exceed their prior limitations.

[01:04:58] Okay. I would argue [01:05:00] that that really takes a special type of person. Um, especially in the absence sometimes of sights, sounds and the atmosphere that some commercial gyms can provide. So let's just look at an example. Yesterday I pulled my first home gym workout in close to a decade. Right? At first I was questioning how well this was going to go because my pre gym ritual of showering, uh, you know, taking my pre-workout, listening to certain music CDs on the way to the gym was out the window.

[01:05:38] You don't realize it, but that has become part of becoming mentally ready. So start lifting heavy, heavy weight. It's the ritual. And I even said that to Elisa. I said, the thing that I'm missing is when I get in my car, I feel it. I change. And when I'm driving to the gym, I [01:06:00] change. It's the anticipation of the workout.

[01:06:01] It's, I'm thinking through what I'm going to do. It's, you know, and it's the ritual that's missing. So now we have to build new rituals. I guess. Yes, and that is the absolutely correct answer. We simply need to, to build new rituals because I was kind of out of sorts, right. I, all I did was I changed from my pants to my shorts and I walked downstairs.

[01:06:25] And so, uh, making that transition is different. It. Maybe it might be a little harder for some people, but there are certain things too that really grease the groove for me and I'm open. They work from you, the usual clank, clank of the weights, you know, the loud rock music, the sights and sounds of people exerting themselves.

[01:06:48] All of that was absent. And by comparison it was almost a sterile environment. But as I loaded the weights. On my new trap bar and I did my first couple of [01:07:00] reps. I started to come alive and maybe more pointedly and specifically as the weights got heavier, my central nervous system really lit up and I could feel my brain activity accelerate.

[01:07:16] And I want you to note something here. It's interesting to me that there's not a pre workout in the world. They can do the same thing. And for those of you who take pre-workouts frequently, I think, you know what I'm talking about. Okay. At least, you know, after you're past your first time ever using a pre workout, you never get to the same place without the heavy weights.

[01:07:43] At least I don't. And the central nervous system I am convinced is tied to it. Um. So, uh, next I started up a few music videos cause I brought my computer down with me. And so now I have, in [01:08:00] addition to auditory stimulation, visual stimulation, that particular mix, heavyweights, watching and listening, something that stimulates your mind, uh, and some of your most powerful senses.

[01:08:19] Is a very powerful thing. And finding that combination to get you into the mood, to start lifting extremely heavy things, uh, is a learning process and it's necessary. But I will tell you that it works best when you're stimulating more than just visually, more than just what you're hearing more than your central nervous system feel.

[01:08:47] A mix of all of those. And I would also suggest, um, the olfactory sense of smell is also a player, which someday I'll talk more about. Um, long [01:09:00] story short, I destroyed my work sets, destroyed them, and I felt euphoria. I really felt you for the last rep on dead lifts that I pulled was just as fast as the first.

[01:09:14] I could not believe how I felt. So all of that, along with a goal that you should have stepping into the gym, like lifting X amount of weight for X reps is foundational to success, especially in home gym training. If you don't have a specific goal, there's . Probably you're not going to be any euphoria. So, so lifting a weight easily that just hours earlier I was looking at and thinking to myself, geez, I don't know.

[01:09:48] You know, it's been a couple of weeks since I've done lifted. I took that time off. Let's see what it's like. You know, I just blew it up. Absolutely. Blew it up. [01:10:00] So, but Nope, this. There can be the dog's dog. You said, dad, I thought you were going to be done by one sec. All right. All right, we're good. All right.

[01:10:18] Nope. This there can be no great sense of victory in the absence, in the absence of an enemy to overcome. Right? And so that goes for training in the gym or at home. Although the ladder, I would suggest, has one last wrinkle in it that I'll speak to. Nobody's going to be there to cheer you on. Nobody's going to be a vet or distract you or otherwise affect your performance.

[01:10:50] It will be you and only you responsible for your success or failure. In my opinion. Being able to do that [01:11:00] solo is truly what separates the men from the boys. So, so in short, when you train at home, uh, you need to train. For you not to impress anyone else. One last thing. Uh, home-based tranny is not an either or proposition.

[01:11:24] One of my best friends does his body weight work at home twice a week, and then he once or twice a week, he goes to the gym, the max out. He does that, by the way, because he's my age and he gets a real big kick out of out lifting the 20 year olds, and most of the time he can do it. But he wants that sense of competition.

[01:11:47] You know, he wants that smell of testosterone in the gym where guys are lifting real heavy and they might be trying to outdo each other, which is exactly what he's trying to [01:12:00] do. If you can cultivate a new ritual and you can cultivate that sense of, of intensity. Then what you'll able to be accomplished at home, in some cases will exceed what you are even able to do in the gym.

[01:12:18] And the last thing I'll say is, there have been many times when I have lifted an extremely heavy weight and I walked upstairs and you know, punted around for half an hour or an hour of getting ready for work. And I remember walking downstairs maybe to get something that I left behind and looking at the weight and think and asking myself how did, how were you able to lift that?

[01:12:49] How? Because I had switched from the gym mentality to getting ready to go to work. There was [01:13:00] no way work. Rob. Was able to live with Jim. Rob did just a half hour ago and it all has to do with what's going on up here. Interesting.

[01:13:16] Have you ever done that? Have you ever lifted a weight like that and then walked away from it and then come back and say, how the hell did I do that? No, I have not experienced that. I can't say I have. Well try to work up to it because it's an incredible thing. No, I mean, I've pulled, I mean, I've, I've done some, I mean, I, I'm, I'm sure that I'm stronger than at least 10% of the population, even now and back in, in my mid fifties I was the strongest I've ever been.

[01:13:46] I mean, I've, I'm not going to throw numbers out here because they're meaningless at this point in time, but I've never looked at the weight and gone, wow, I can't believe I did that because it took me so long to get there. It was like, damn it, I better be able to do this. You know? I mean, [01:14:00] I was a very patient lifter.

[01:14:02] I was a very, very patient lifter, and that's why it surprised me when I popped my three hamstring attachments. I was just not paying attention because. You know, I, I had earned the right to pull that weight, uh, w over the course of years, it wasn't like, Oh yeah, one year I'm going to be able to do this. It was years.

[01:14:22] I, I mean, I remember pulling four Oh five my friend Jesse  and I used to travel on business and we would always show up at the local gym wherever we were on. One day we were in Florida, in Clearwater actually, and we went to a gym and we paid to train there. And. You know, I did. I was doing five sets of 10 reps with four Oh five before I decided to go up above four Oh five I was afraid to go.

[01:14:49] I thought, I'm not ready. I'm not ready. I'm not ready. And Jesse's like, dude, you just did sets of 10 with four Oh five like you need to start moving up the ladder. [01:15:00] But I earned every lift that I ever did and I was very, I was a very patient lifter. But I never experienced like, wow, I can't believe I did that because it was just such a gradual, incremental process that I felt like I, I have to be able to do this.

[01:15:17] You know, I should be able to do this. You know? It may also be because you were still in the gym and I knew hunger. Yeah. You were still in that mindset and when you're at home, I get it. Right. I went upstairs. And then went downstairs after a time period of time and it really hit, I could see that the setting would set the tone for what you're thinking.

[01:15:43] I could see that. Yeah, it absolutely does. It absolutely does. I think a Louie Simmons said one time in one of his interviews, he said, Louis Simmons has never been in this gym, and he was other [01:16:00] weird alter ego name. But he was, but he was making the point, you know when Louis trains, he's not himself anymore.

[01:16:07] Right? Know what, watch Louis training versus Louis at a strength seminars symposium is entirely there. Are these two different people. Yeah, I get it, man. Good stuff. Very, very good stuff. Go to coach Rob ruggish.com and learn more. Check out his blueprint bulletin. You get it every sing. Is it every week or every month?

[01:16:30] Yeah. Every month we got a brand new, big issue coming out tomorrow, and there's a lot of stuff that he does. There's a ton of stuff that he doesn't talk about on this show that you'll learn about in the blueprint bulletin about drugs, about lots of stuff. I mean, it's well worth it, and not only that, but when you sign up for the blip, the bulletin, you get access to the archive of how many years of bulletins now?

[01:16:54] Oh six several, or we've got, it's almost a hundred issues. Alright. So [01:17:00] you know the, the amount of knowledge there and the library that's at your fingertips. And I'm confident in saying it's bigger than anything anywhere else. Yeah. Yup. It's a, it's a, it's a depository or repository, whatever you want to call it, of strength and conditioning tips, secrets, and a, you don't have to wait for the show.

[01:17:20] You just go there and read it when you want. Hi, Rob. Thanks a lot. Today we have great shows all week. Elisa's back, and as you can see, the quality of my interviews are changing. Pretty cost. She's taking the time to read the studies and book the guests. So the show is getting better and better. Uh, and, uh, so we'll see you tomorrow.

[01:17:37] We have a show for every day this week, I think. I, I think Friday we don't have one. Uh, I try to produce four shows a week right now because people complain that there's too many shows and they can't catch up. So I tried to take one day a week, either a Monday or Friday off to do stuff in the studio. So I think we have a shows a Wednesday and Thursday, and that's it this week, but she's already booked for next week and she's got some amazing [01:18:00] shows.

[01:18:01] Like she sending me the links to the studies and I'm like, she's like, I already got this guy on. I'm like, Oh my God. I could never see when I was here just by myself. I couldn't do it all. It takes a long time to read studies, try and find the authors email address because they don't all put them on the studies.

[01:18:20] You got to go to the university, you've got to search for them in the staff. If they're not staff members, you've got to email a department, say, can you put me a tug? It's this long, protracted process, and then you got to do it fast because this is new. This is. Yeah. Exciting. Now, it may not be exciting in three weeks when everybody else on the internet is talking about it.

[01:18:38] Since she's been back, just expect the show to get leaps and bounds better. Now that Elise is back. So thank you. Great big. Welcome back for Lucy and she will be doing, we'll be doing our own show again. It's not going to be casual Friday, but it's going to be a pretty cool show and we already have a name for it.

[01:18:57] We're not going to let that cat out of the bag right now, [01:19:00] but anyway. All right. Thanks for being here today. Thanks for watching. Check out the live stream supremer radio.net now though, the listen live button is there. So if you want to listen on your iPhone or your computer, cause you can't sit here and watch the show one day and then you can still communicate with us, you can.

[01:19:14] Send emails to on-air at superior radio.net I'll start checking them during the commercial breaks and we'll answer your questions that way as well. I see you tomorrow. Thanks. [01:20:00]