[00:00:00] calling all blueprint, army fall in line. It's time for the blueprint. So I, my nephew, Timmy is here. He's watching me produce a show because these things can't happen anymore. Tim, he's going to become my producer eventually. Sorry about that. That music wasn't supposed to run yet. Welcome back to another episode of super human radio.

[00:00:19] Today is Tuesday, September 1st, 2020. We will be endeavoring the blueprint power hour, where you can post your questions and we will do our best to answer them. Just post them here. Uh, we have questions that people send in. We're going to get to those first, but we'll work. You're alive questions in at the same time.

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[00:02:20] It's time for the blueprint power hour with coach Rodriguez on the superhuman radio network.

[00:02:30] How you doing Rob? I'm doing great, man. There's beautiful weather up here lately. I don't know about you, but, uh, yeah, it's cooling off a little bit finally. Well, before the show, and I think I can save to talk about this coach. Rob is endeavoring. He may be a Hunter before we know it. Alright, coach Rob interest himself across the bow.

[00:02:51] And he's amazed at the how, how the technology and crossbows has progressed. Isn't it an amazing crossbows shooter, you know, a hundred feet per [00:03:00] second. From all the reading that I've done and how far they've come with some of the, especially some of these compound bows it's, it's incredible. I mean, the accuracy, the speed, the range.

[00:03:13] I wouldn't have never expected it from a boat. Well, I gave up a bow hunting in general as a young man, because I. I wasn't that good at it. I was really good with a rifle or a pistol, but bow hunting takes a certain skill because you must get much closer and that's still true with the crossbow. You know, nobody's taken a hundred yard shots with a crossbow, and I've done that plenty of times with rifles with a crossbow 20 to 50 yards away is pretty much.

[00:03:42] Where you need to be. Um, but yeah, these, the crossbow technology has just come so far. It's amazing to me. And that's why I bought one. I was like, um, and, and killer instinct is the company that just happens to be you and I bought bows from the same manufacturer and implant. [00:04:00] No, I know most of these banks, the factors that may cross-post today, you got to drop $700 to get a good crossbow, but this company killer instinct, which actually is.

[00:04:11] A subsidy of a much bigger company. I can't think of their name, but it'll come to me before I, before the end of the show, um, they decided to get into the crossbow business. If you're looking to buy a crossbow, check out killer instinct, because for two to $400, you can buy an amazing, amazing crossbow that will last you a very, very long time.

[00:04:32] And if you want to just shoot it at targets, that's great. Uh, or if you want to take it hunting, that's equally great because these things are moving out over 400 feet per second. Uh, yeah, obviously when you're shooting an arrow at an animal, it's all about, it's not like a gun where they just get hit by a truck and they fall down.

[00:04:52] But these crossbows that this company killer instinct is making I'm I'm flabbergasted how good they are. Yeah. [00:05:00] So I guess they're, they're like rogue is to, uh, to elite fitness or West side. They're kind of a subsidiary, slightly cheaper, you know, less expensive stuff. It's not cheap, man. I'd tell them, yeah.

[00:05:13] This thing is rock solid. And they also one question about, about it. And I called their customer service line. They were fantastic. Boom, right. To a person. Answer your questions there. Anything else I can do for you? It's nice to see. Yeah, they're, they're, they're they're subsidiary of a larger company whose name escapes me, but this company has been in, uh, the hunting and, and survival gear, uh, category for like 50 or 60 years.

[00:05:41] And they decided to get into, uh, the crossbow business. And so I predict that these crossbows are intelligently priced right now, but once they establish themselves. As a strong competitor, these same bows that you and I have bought for a few hundred dollars will probably be seven, $800. Yeah. [00:06:00] It's like the car it's like Acura.

[00:06:01] When they first came into town, they would throw in cars away for $15,000. Now, now you want to buy an accurate at $50,000, right? Same business model. How are you doing with your training coach? I'm doing great. Thanks for asking. I am scheduled to max out on weighted chin ups this week or seven week. The conclusion of a seven week program.

[00:06:23] That'll be in a few days. Um, but otherwise, you know, I feel terrific, you know, whatever little niggling injuries I've had are gone. Um, you know, there are three Titus is still there, but we'll talk about how much. The things I have done to make it so much better than what it was. It'll never be completely healed because there's no cartilage there.

[00:06:46] Um, but there has been a major, major improvement. So Joe Nasrallah said he just messaged legendary foods and they're not able to ship to Canada yet at that said, but they'll, they'll it look, they'll fix that. Cause you gotta remember [00:07:00] the same engine that was behind quest bar is behind legendary foods. So they'll be everywhere.

[00:07:06] It's just going to take a little time. But thank you for at least the messaging them to ask that question. Uh, we have questions coming in already. Uh, one of our big fans, uh, Marcus, my God. We'll get to your question. I promise, uh, we're going to start off with the first question, which is from a Solomon dreadful, dreadful dreadful, sir.

[00:07:26] I'm sorry if I'm sure of your name, I've got some pretty severe shoulder issues in particular, a torn labrum. And according to my doctor, some pretty severe arthritis, he recommended surgery, but I'm not keen to get that done. We'll glucosamine helped me. What about CSUs? Yeah. Well, the good news here, the good news is that it sounds like he got an accurate diagnosis and that's important because you need to know what type of injury you're dealing with.

[00:08:00] [00:08:00] So we know. For example, he has a torn labor. I'm not sure to what extent didn't say, but at least we know the underlying or the underlying problem is second. Yeah. We know that there's some arthritis in the picture. Now the word severe was used, which usually means as in my case, There's no cartilage left bone on bone between.

[00:08:23] Right. So, so, uh, however, they'll tell you that there is nothing you can do. That's not true. Um, you do have options. So let's talk about a few now to date. I am not aware of any supplements or drug that can relax. I believe fixed what I call a structural issue. AKA, a labor room tear. Now here and there I'll grant.

[00:08:48] You you'll hear about BPC one 57 fixing something like this, but the reports are, are, you know, they're they're spotty. So to speak, it's hard to tell [00:09:00] let's address this. Let's just dive a little bit deeper. So. When you have a tear, if it's in the muscle belly, it will repair itself. It will still cause problems because of the rigidity.

[00:09:11] But if you have a tear in soft tissue, like a tendon or ligament, for instance, and it, and there's a notch, a literal notch of flesh missing from it or tissue missing from it, there's no way that any supplement is going to cause the tissue to grow across. And fix it and fill it in at best. What happens is that natural heal as a notch and we'll continue to be a weak spot in that muscle complex.

[00:09:39] Right. So, so let me give me an example. And again, being me, the only surgery I've ever had, I to tore my labor, I tried every trick in the book, right. To fix it myself. Um, but unbeknownst to me, after I finally had an MRI or cat scan, one of the two, [00:10:00] a piece, a tiny yeah. Piece of the labor room had torn off and was floating around inside the shoulder capsule.

[00:10:09] Now there's no, there's no compound or whatever, a peptide I can give you. That's going to go in there and take care of that. Right. So, so I would tell you. Um, bite the bullet and have the surgery. It's important to do that if it's that, especially if it's that type, uh, that type of venture. Now, secondly, I can tell you, I do believe Glucosomine helps even in those instances of severe arthritis where you're bone on bone.

[00:10:43] And so let me tell you the difference that it makes for me, if I'm using enough of the right kind of glucosamine. It is the difference between me not even being able to hold a handstand. My right arm will collapse at the elbow, um, and doing [00:11:00] reps with a weight fast. Okay. The pain. Yeah. As long as I keep the reps low is in pain and discomfort is what I call minimal.

[00:11:11] Sometimes they don't even think about it. Um, Higher reps is another story. You know, the grinding, the grinding away. Now I can also tell you that the best combination that I've found for these types of, so of issues is glucosamine and CSUs. I wish I could tell you what CSUs was doing to work so well, but you need only look at the reviews and how long it's been on the market to know that it certainly does work at least to an extent.

[00:11:44] For most people. Now I should caveat things by saying, I found a new CSUs that is effective at a mirror, two capsules, 800 milligrams total, um, that I found for the [00:12:00] newsletter. That's just hit today. Yeah, it was released today. Um, now what I can tell you though, is another good brand out on the market is prime of force.

[00:12:10] Uh, they're CSUs quadrangular terrace. It's effective at four to six capsules a day, but it'll still do the job. So, uh, the extracts are getting better. I was highly skeptical because this two capsule a day product. A six week supply is selling for, or less than 20 bucks. So, yeah. Right. It's great. It's great price.

[00:12:38] And hopefully, hopefully the price increase doesn't happen, right? Like we just discussed right. People, people get onto it. Um, otherwise I would tell you that certain types of college in particular type two on the nature college, as well as things like hyaluronic acid, I've heard good things. From other people that have used that.

[00:12:59] So, [00:13:00] so in summary though, here here's, here's the bottom line, I would encourage you to experiment with some of those compounds. However, get a finer point on that. Diagnosis, understand whether or not it's a problem, boom. That can be fixed by surgery or not. And if it's former, get it done, like the bullet go in, it was, in my case, it was one of the easiest things I had ever done.

[00:13:25] And. I am stronger. I will tell you this, I am stronger now in this right shoulder than I was before surgery. So it's by no means, is it a, Hey, you're never going to perform at the same level type of thing. Absolutely not. Not if you get it done, right, Joe Nasralla is asking about boswellia. I'd like to, I'd like to, before we address boswellia I'd like to go right to the pinnacle, the pinnacle approach to repairing soft tissue.

[00:13:55] Whether it's regrowing cartilage, whether it's repairing a [00:14:00] tendon or ligament it's growth hormone, not to interrupt well, Andrea articulate or systemically delivered it. So let's talk about that. So if you have a knee and you've been told that you're starting to develop arthritis, a good orthopedic surgeon can do intraarticular growth, hormone injections, and you will regrow, you will regrow.

[00:14:23] I did shows about this. Dr. Allen Dunn has either passed away or since retired. He had a website, um, that was an acronym for intra articular growth, hormone injections.org. And he was training orthopedic surgeons, how to do this and more and more are aware of it, whether or not that opportunity is a different story because anytime growth hormone comes into the discussion.

[00:14:49] Physicians freak out like, Oh, I don't want the DEA look, look, we're not asking you to inject it into the knee directly. It stays there, but [00:15:00] dr. Dunn's. Practice. He worked with NFL professional football, baseball players. He worked with average people. They flew down to Florida. They went in, let's say it was a knee.

[00:15:14] He did a 20 IQ injection of growth. Come on right into the synovial capsule. And you went away. Um, he did that once a week for three weeks. And then you came back in six months and every single time the cartilage was regrowing regrow, which that, which every orthopedic surgeon in the world will tell you.

[00:15:37] That's impossible. You can't regrow cartilage it's nonsense. And if you're a critical thinker, all you need to do is look at bodybuilders who abused growth, hormone, bodybuilders, who abused growth hormone. I'm talking about taking 10 IUs a day for long periods of time. They experienced a phenomenon called joint.

[00:15:57] Crowding what this is, [00:16:00] is the cartilage in their knees and fingers and wrists and elbows, and everywhere grows to such a great degree and so rapidly that it causes pressure in the joint, the pursuit of arthritis. They have too much cartilage in their joints. So that's just good enough to be effective.

[00:16:24] Well, I think about it, right? And I talked about this. I have a good friend. Who's I'm not going to mention his name because he never authorized me to say this, but he told this is about seven years ago. And he said, my doctor said, you know, he's an avid runner. He said, my doctor said, I'm going to need a knee replacement and a left knee and probably the right knee a couple years later.

[00:16:42] And I talked him into getting prescribed growth hormone. And doing two are use a day, five days a week. So he didn't do an aggressive protocol. He did the anti-aging protocol and in six months his needs were better. And even after he stopped using it, he continued to see [00:17:00] the benefits. And his doctor said, I don't know what you did, but keep doing it, doing it.

[00:17:04] Now. He couldn't tell his doctor because his doctor wasn't the one who prescribed it for him, but growth hormone. If you have soft tissue problems, growth hormone is the way to go. Now, a lot of people are gonna say to me, well, what about a Socrata Gaga? I don't think secretes God's work. And here's why, because secreted gods just cause physiological elevation of growth hormone.

[00:17:27] That's not protecting you from getting arthritis and obviously hasn't okay. You need exceptional levels for short periods of time, weeks, and maybe even some months. To cause an overproduction of chondracytes that actually causes regrowth as opposed to just maintenance. So if you are really serious about correcting arthritis, you must find a physician who will prescribe growth hormone for you.

[00:17:56] You must, and you will not need joint [00:18:00] replacement. Now go get it done. That's a different story. Cause doctors don't want to do it for you. Sometimes you have to go to the dark side. If you know what I mean. Next question. Oh, I'm sorry. I got no, no, that's great. Great information. This question is from Myron gray.

[00:18:17] He says I'm setting up a new routine and thinking about. Training Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or Tuesday, Thursday. I'm 35 years old. I've been training for about 10 years now. I'm interested, primarily in getting stronger. I've also heard Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday schedule works well with Wednesday and weekends off.

[00:18:36] What's the best training frequency. Don't you love questions like this? Well, see, but it's a good question because training frequency. Is probably the most difficult, fundamental to solve for that. There is because in a lot of cases, it's a moving target. And the honest answer [00:19:00] is it depends, depends on what it depends on a lot of things.

[00:19:05] It's a long, long list, but let's look at an example. So lifter age, 35 years old. He trains hard. His workouts take about an hour or no, actually they only take three 30 minutes. He sleeps a lot. He eats, he tends to make smaller jumps when adding weight, he uses I'd say Cynthia, Jen, or some other intro workout for eight weeks at a time, and then a month off.

[00:19:30] And then eight weeks lifter B is 35 too. He, a kid usually pushes himself and his workouts typically lasts. Two to three hours. He doesn't sleep real well, but he does eat enough. And when he does jump the weight, it's usually pretty aggressive. Whereas to lift her a was, you know, going up one to five pounds of time lift or be here, wants to try to go up 25 or more pounds, you know, every week.

[00:19:56] Uh, and there's only something that he does not avail himself [00:20:00] to in know, intro, workout supplementation, despite their identical age, the optimal training frequency. For both of those guys is going to be different in some cases drastically. So I would tell you, um, that in the case of lifter a, he stands a really good chance of training hard and heavy and wrecking recognizing increases four days a week for long stretches of time, lifter B.

[00:20:30] Isn't going to be able to train productively more than two, maybe three days a week, because most of what he's doing. Pass the 60 minute Mark is actually working against him and the best diet in the world. Isn't going to overcome the sleep deficit that he sent. And as far as those 25 pound jumps a week ago, good luck.

[00:20:49] You know, once you're out of a newbie stage, uh, or you're using super supplements, even if you're able to pull that off for a couple of weeks, it's not going to last, [00:21:00] I mean, think about it. We'd all be lifting a thousand pounds, right. So you can see. How many different things go into it and that's just scratching the surface.

[00:21:11] The other problem is it's a moving target because not everyone's like that. I'll just use one variable, not everyone's sleep is always consistent, right? Some people sleep well most of the time, but when there's a lot of stress at work or they're beefing with their spouse, they're not sleeping very well.

[00:21:32] And so during those weeks or months, or however long it lasts, the training frequency is going to change. The other thing is, if even if everything's going swimmingly, you know, you get consistent sleep food. You're making jumps every single week. You're training frequent, any fixed training frequency will ultimately fail with time.

[00:21:56] Why? Because you're lifting heavier weights for more [00:22:00] reps. It's logical that the stresses grow on your body and while your muscles will enlarge right. To accommodate this type of, um, increase your internal organs, like your kidneys and your liver do, do not. And they're heavily involved in clearing metabolic waste and other things that are involved in the recovery process.

[00:22:28] So. Clearly, it's a very, very difficult puzzle to solve. I would tell you then that the optimal training for you, Quincy is the one yeah. Where you're able to recognize consistent strength increases from workout to workout, whatever that is. If it's one day a week, it's one day a week. I know guys who trained one on 10 off and they made incredible.

[00:22:57] Jumps in strength. [00:23:00] I've also known people who can train very frequently and recognize small increases. The final thing I'll say is this. And it's a great exercise to see when I'm talking about keep your workouts, the 30 minutes get as much done in those 30 minutes as you can. And after two months, come back and talk.

[00:23:22] Tell me about the progress that you've been able to make. I think you're going to be shocked at not only the quality of your workouts, but also how many times you can train that way. Productively, every single person that ever took me up on that and did it came back and said, you know, but you're right.

[00:23:43] They recover faster. They grow up better. So. Difficult question to answer. Um, but those are some of my thoughts on the matter. Uh, it's a lot of, it's a lot of trial and error. There's no need to fit everything [00:24:00] into a seven day week. First of all, I had the same discussion with dr. Brad Schoenfeld, not too long ago when he was on my show, nobody has done more research into the efficiency and building muscle and strength as dr.

[00:24:11] Schoenfeld. And he agreed with me. It's absurd. Your body doesn't know what a Monday is. It doesn't know. There's only seven days in the week. Okay. I made my greatest gains. On a nine day routine. I trained day one took two and three off danger train day three. Um, I'm sorry. I gave four, five and six off train date, seven, eight, and nine off.

[00:24:37] And came back around again. I made the greatest gains I've ever made with that kind of a routine. So first of all, get your mindset out of this idea that in order to train properly and efficiently. Thank you. You have to make it fit into a seven day week. Lose that you'll you'll, you'll, you'll be so much better off.

[00:24:56] The other thing I want to mention is, and we're going to get to everybody's question, but [00:25:00] this one fits appropriately in this discussion. Jonas Rolla says he's training everyday. Currently with no days off, perhaps not smart, but he has a bad feeling that the gyms are going to shut down again. And so that's why he's doing this right opportunity, but let me tell you something, Joe, I've made great gains training everyday too, but you have to temper.

[00:25:20] And modify if you hit every body part five days a week continuously, but you're just doing one or two sets. And you accumulate that volume over the course of five days, as opposed to going in and beating a body part up in one day, you can have great strength gains, great muscle gains, but you have to modify the work.

[00:25:45] You can't do the same routine that you would do if you were doing a chest body part only if you're going to hit it five days in a row. Well, what do you think about that coach? That is precisely what I'm doing with my Genesis. I have already mentioned. [00:26:00] The chin up program that I'm on. And I'll tell you this, I'm going to go in and max out Thursday, but it's already a win.

[00:26:08] My strength levels are weak. It was either week three or week four jumped dramatically. And what was I doing? I was doing two sets, chins five days a week, and then three sets of chins, five days a week. And then, you know, a little bit of break then back to two, then back to three. And so yeah, training frequently, like that can be done, but what did I do?

[00:26:32] I did two sets of chin up basically. Um, people think. They might look at you and think you're nuts. That's usually a good sign that you're on the side. I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm hitting the gym three to four days a week right now. I'm not, I don't have the time. I'm only doing a 30 to 40 minute workout as you, you suggest I'm hitting every body part.

[00:26:51] Every time I go into the gym, but I'm just doing two sets, I'm doing a warmup set and a set to failure, and then I'm moving on so that I have gas in the tank [00:27:00] to go do the next routine, the next thing. And so at the end of the day, My body is getting mad volume, but it's over the course of a week instead of one word.

[00:27:09] Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Good, good, good. Alright, so let's go right to, uh, let's take a, let's take a question from the audience. This one comes from, uh, Marcus, may God, hold on a second. Let me just stop the clock. I don't want this show to run away from him. He says I'm okay. I've been struggling to stay focused and awake during boring lectures.

[00:27:29] I'm thinking I might. Be imbalanced between dopamine and GABA, add a little ADHD runs in my family. So that might have a factor I'm going to try dosing tyrasine and Thea theonine prior to lectures, but I'm also considering adding taurine to the mix. Do you think the touring will help? Probably not as much as the Tirosint and, and the fee mean.

[00:27:58] Um, it could [00:28:00] be just that the subject matter is so damn boring putting that can happen too. Um, but that's, uh, I think that's a solid plan, especially if you're like, you know what? I don't want to use stimulants for this. I do want to be awake and alert. Uh, now if you're nodding off frequently, not only during lectures, but also, you know, at other times during the day that could be a medical problem.

[00:28:27] Right. And so you might also want to invest in the sleep study, which will tell you, um, with some certainty exactly how much quality sleep you're getting it. You know, I know I'm right. There are also electronic gadgets. That'll do this. Um, but the sleep study is obviously a little more involved and you have a professional to give you their opinion.

[00:28:54] Um, but your plan. The way you've got to sketch it out. I think makes sense. I wouldn't take any [00:29:00] less than three grams of Tirosint. Um, the theater personally only, I only use  if I'm using a stimulant, because it kind of takes the edge off a little bit. Um, I would start with solo tyricine and then go from there because that's going to help you assess.

[00:29:20] Which amino acid is helping you the most taurine, if I'm not mistaken, has some GABA action, which would probably work against you. Sleep here. I'm going to tell you what not to underestimate do not underestimate three to five grams of creatine monohydrate for brain research shows that in the military.

[00:29:47] Soldiers that were required to pull a third shift, an overnight shift, and they gave one group five grams of creatine and one group, five grams of a placebo. And the group that got the [00:30:00] creatine did not get tired overnight. They didn't have the nod off state. Didn't feel sleepy. They remained alert. In fact, that's why you shouldn't take credit before bed.

[00:30:09] Of course it'll impair your sleep with that being said, creatine improves. Brain function. It can be thought of in the same way as a nootropic in that way. In fact, that's why I take creatine now. Cause I'm not training as hard as I used to. I am not leveraging the value of creating and producing ATP for muscle, but creating definitely works and waking you up.

[00:30:33] Also for those of you have any sleep problems which I have had on and off for the past couple of years, research shows that supplementing with creatine. Requires less sleep needed to recover. Now think about this for a second. So if you take creatine, you'll probably end up sleeping less at night, but it's not impaired sleep because [00:31:00] recovery is still occurring.

[00:31:02] You're still going through all the phases of sleep, just not for as long. And it appears in the research and you can look this research up. I don't have it at my fingertips, but I read it years ago that. It actually reduces the need for sleep. It doesn't impair the length of sleep. Now, what does that mean to someone who sleeps sucks already?

[00:31:22] If you have bad sleep, taking creatine could cause your bed sleep to have less of a bad effect effect on you because you're going to recover in the sleep that you're getting. So when it comes to the brain, Marcus, give creatine a try. You may find some fantastic results with it. So, yeah, he's cheap enough.

[00:31:44] That's for sure. Yeah. Right. And it's safe and everything else, and it will help you with your workouts. We're going to take a break. We have lots of more questions. We have lots of live questions. We've got to get to everybody's question. I promise you. In the meantime, check out, coach Rob  dot com. We'll be right back.

[00:32:06] [00:32:00] My nephew is teaching me how to use tick tock.

[00:32:12] Is that the new social media? It's not new, but it's, it's, it's amazing. It's like people like people, there's more interaction on ticktock than Instagram, Facebook, anything. And, you know, yeah. I mean, we work in the world of the spoken word and I figured I'm going to try it. I'm going to give it a try. So the next question comes from herb Adams.

[00:32:34] He says, what is it, an empty, sterile, and that really lessons delayed onset muscle soreness. Because if I notice one thing from it, it's that I feel like it's an anti inflammatory. Yeah. Um, I'm going to be. Totally honest and tell you that after almost 30 years of using it, researching it, talking to people that have [00:33:00] used it.

[00:33:01] I don't know. Now it's an interesting question though, because it was more than anything else. It's what tells people it's doing something. I, I get this feedback. I would say this is the top. Most frequent piece of feedback that I get. I, I, you know, I recover faster. Um, I feel better, you know, I have more energy stuff like that to answer the question.

[00:33:27] I do think. Um, we need to look at the constituents of the various actives in response ponticum, which is what if you're going to use it. That's what you should be using unless you're using an isolated to her testosterone from a jugar Turkistan Anika. Um, it's all about responsible. So first and foremost, the acne steroids that have been identified in the plan.

[00:33:54] Or what's usually on the table, right? That's the one the Russians zeroed in on it [00:34:00] looks kind of close to our other favorite four carbon molecules. Um, but they all do the interesting thing about it is of the dozens and dozens that are in . They all do different things. Like as an example, Integra stone, a and B, or what bring, um, cholesterol down.

[00:34:22] It's speculated that SIAST her own and  are two that favorably, you know, improve your blood sugar levels and believe me, you wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, did you say porn? Asteron PON astrol can cause porn Astro sounds really interesting all of a sudden, but okay. I digress. Right? Um, so the point is almost all of them have some kind of biological activity.

[00:34:49] Often overlooked though. The same plant are things like tannins and resins and even certain oils. Then I'm convinced having an effect. For example, we know one of [00:35:00] these tangents, um, mitigates your body's ability to store glucose as fat. We also know that overall. The plant has an incredible antioxidant impact.

[00:35:12] Alright, great antioxidant function. And that isn't just important in the context. Most people think, right? Because when most people think of oxidation, they think you're the old example. You know, you cut the Apple in half, it's going to Brown. Well, the Browning is oxidation. That's what's going on in your body.

[00:35:31] Respond to come, seems to improve that dramatically. It's almost like putting right lemon. Um, real lemon juice on the Apple and then watch how fast, you know, with rust or turns Brown. It's a dramatic difference. So that's what one thing that people think might contribute to the effect. The other thing though about, um, that antioxidant function is this everybody's focused on [00:36:00] cholesterol, right?

[00:36:01] Especially doctors, high cholesterol. Even high LDL cholesterol. It's not the high cholesterol that'll kill you. It's oxidized cholesterol. And if anybody doubts that read the Framingham heart study of way back when, I mean the information's out there, why certain doctors, why a lot of doctors don't look into the further is just beyond me.

[00:36:26] Anyway, strong antioxidant action is probably we're mitigating things like. Delayed onset muscle soreness starts, starts mopping up oxidation fast, allows the body to get a jump on other more meaningful biological processes like tissue repair. Right. We know from studies that various equity steroids increase the efficiency.

[00:36:54] Also a messenger RNA translation in the ribosome. Right [00:37:00] for that process to work optimal. I believe though, right? Things like essential amino acids. It also helps to have a robust nucleic acid pool and high cellular ATP. All of which are things acne does really well. And I'll tell you, when you notices the most, when you go on a fairly extreme cutting diet levels of ATP and muscle cells, usually correspondingly fall.

[00:37:28] With  it seems that they either don't or they don't nearly as much there isn't another product I know of that addresses oxidation messenger, RNA translation, tissue repair, and keeping cellular ATP levels elevated. All in one shot like this, then at least they're on this. The only one I can think of that does all of those and does it really well.

[00:37:55] Now it is true. You can deal with things like oxidation [00:38:00] and elevate ATP levels and attempt, you know, greater tissue repair with other compounds. Thus far, however, increasing messenger, RNA translation, efficiency, that seems exclusive to acting. So yeah, you can take antioxidants, you can take creatine, you can take, uh, essential amino acids, et cetera, et cetera.

[00:38:21] You end up taking a lot of stuff that has duplicate functions. I would tell you you then that elevator, those big four processes is probably what's contributing to the reduction. In delayed onset muscle soreness and corresponding improvement in recovery. It is not a simple reduction in pain or inflammation.

[00:38:47] Okay. It's, that's a one trick pony. You can take a painkiller so that, or, uh, you know, ibuprofen, etc. Because it's secondary, that [00:39:00] function it's secondary to real accelerated. Tissue repair, which is what actually gets you something that is far far superior to simple pain or inflammation reduction. That's my take on things, I guess time will tell whether or not I'm right.

[00:39:19] So here's, here's something interesting that while you were talking about this, I took a chance. So I looked on the national institutes of health, any research that. Points to delayed onset muscle soreness and the presence of myoglobin. I love when people talk about eating a bloody red steak, it's not blood that's myoglobin.

[00:39:38] Myoglobin is the fluid that's in side muscle cells. And when you, uh, develop rhabdo, it's actually from the accumulation of myoglobin being trapped in and the kidneys, not, not creatinine, not creatine. Or any of that other stuff, myoglobin is very [00:40:00] misunderstood. And I thought, you know, I wonder if there's a relationship between myoglobin and delayed onset muscle soreness.

[00:40:07] And I did in fact, find this study that looked at, but that wasn't what they attributed delayed onset muscle soreness too. They attributed delayed onset muscle soreness too. Yeah. Accumulation of neutrophils, which are basically white blood cells. But wait a second. He's had an abstract thought probably really way off on this.

[00:40:28] Right? So what if the damage from training elicits an infection, when do Y so if you have elevated white blood cells, it's because your body's fighting an infection. Part of the role of white blood cells is to suppress infection. So white blood cells are part of the immune system response.

[00:40:57] What if [00:41:00] the body sees this damage? Because it's new to it as something that could lead to infection and it deploys white blood cells days after. Cause that's what they said though. The study that I just looked at exercise, et cetera, exercise. Induced delayed onset muscle soreness and changes in markers of muscle damage and inflammation.

[00:41:24] And they are the ones that after the long study showed that there's a positive correlation between the mobilization of circulating neutrophils into the muscle several hours and days after the eccentric exercise. So. This would say that the neutrophil migration activity starts at four hours after training and continues to fussy for 48 hours.

[00:41:52] And this is why you feel it days after, but what if the body thinks that that damage is an infection [00:42:00] now? What does this mean? I don't know, but it's an interesting abstract idea to think about this for a second. And maybe things that ward off. Dom's actually protect us from getting infections. They have more of an immune system modulatory effect that we're not that way.

[00:42:22] It's an interesting theory. Absolutely interesting. Cause you know, cause it goes away after a while, right? The more you train your delayed onset muscle soreness goes away. The body doesn't see this need for, to, to, to sequester and suppress an infection. I don't know. I don't know where I'm going with this yet.

[00:42:40] It's just, it's just a thought, but it's something that no one has ever discussed before. And from this study here, I don't understand why no one has ever discussed it anyway. Okay. Alright. So let's see. Um, let's go ahead and answer Ben Turner. Dixon's question. It's live. And then we'll get on to the next.

[00:43:00] [00:43:00] Um, so he says, Hey guys, I'm following up on a question that was interrupted last show when there was technical issues. Yes. Thank you. To repeat. A family member has prostate cancer that doctors expect has spread to neighboring tissue and have put him on androgen blockade theory therapy to slow the spread.

[00:43:19] That's a stupid idea. Um, The feed was interrupted, right? When you agreed SARMs are not a viable option. So let's take it from the beginning. Let's take it from the beginning. Um, Andrew and blockade therapy has been shown not to suppress prostate cancer at all. I know people who have been on ADT, uh, also known as androgen deprivation therapy whose prostate cancer continued.

[00:43:48] So it doesn't work. We know that. From dr. Samuel den Mead's research that raising testosterone levels to super physiological levels is [00:44:00] what kills prostate cancer in the most aggressive cases. So the first thing I would do is I would search for dr. Samuel den Mead's research on the internet, just dr.

[00:44:09] Samuel Denman, D N M E D E. And the word prostate. That's all. You gotta do. Pull all of his papers, bring them to. The doctor, because the exact opposite of what that doctor is doing is what's going to cure this cancer. Go ahead. Um, I would tell you that, uh, that would be very similar to what I would recommend to you.

[00:44:32] My first thought was, you know, stopping androgen therapy or, you know, killing androgen levels off is probably the worst thing that you could do for it. Um, if I'm not mistaken, the doctors doctors opinion on this matter of course is it's the testosterone we got to get rid of the testosterone. Um, just Asteron is telling you that entire [00:45:00] theory slash approach was predicated.

[00:45:04] Um, one study with one participant done. It's like back in the 1950s, it's absolutely absurd. Having said that, um, I would use the same approach. Carl. I think that you are, uh, putting forth here understanding however that whoever your doctor is, he is under incredible. He or she incredible institutional pressure not to do this.

[00:45:39] And that's really sad, uh, because at this point, right, if they're saying it's spread, what does he have to lose at this point? Right. I mean, I'm looking, I'm looking for research while you're talking. I'm sorry. Yeah, it's look, um, this whole notion. Is [00:46:00] also impacted by the political politics around testosterone.

[00:46:05] Testosterone is a steroid steroid bad do no harm. Why would you want to give someone, you know, this stuff when they've already got cancer? Well, if you're, if I'm that person and they're telling me the cancer's already spread. Okay. Then I'm looking at you doctor and saying, what do I have to lose? What do I have?

[00:46:30] I'm not pulling this out of my backside. Here are the medical studies. I am basing this on. Let's do it. And if you don't do it, I'll find somebody that will. So, you know, that would, that would be my take on the matter. So, hold on, let me, let me stop the clock because the music is going to start running and I don't want that to happen yet.

[00:46:54] I want to finish answering this question. So Paul godly came on my show [00:47:00] in 2000 and probably 12. And I'm looking for the study. He wrote a paper for the American cancer society and the cancer and the article was. That androgens do not correlate with prostate cancer. And this was a paper that he wrote for the American cancer society, telling doctors to abandon the idea that, uh, suppressing testosterone was the way to treat cancer.

[00:47:30] This was back in 12, 13, maybe 14. It's a little blurry to me. I remember his name is dr. Paul godly. So find that research on androgens. He said none of them not da TA. Now DHT, not testosterone, none of them correlated with the incidence of prostate cancer. Your doctors continue to treat their patients like androgens are the problem.

[00:47:57] Um, number two, [00:48:00] If you find more current information from 2017, 1819 on dr. Samuel den meet. As I said, you'll find that he's doing research, showing that giving men with aggressive prostate cancer testosterone gets rid of the prostate cancer. That's actually the opposite. And so. The other problem is that men who undergo androgen deprivation therapy die of other causes, they become full blown diabetic.

[00:48:29] They develop weakness in the heart. They are usually die of heart failure. They end up with huge amounts of visceral fat. We just talked about the linkage between visceral fat and mortality just the other day. So it's your job. As the patient to force the doctor to recognize current science and treat you based on current science or find a different effing doctor.

[00:48:56] Okay. Because back in the day, doctors [00:49:00] used to use to give them people mercury to get rid of a syphilis, but they don't do that anymore. Right. Like, think of all the patients that died because of the mercury instead of the syphilis. So. You must gather this information, dr. Paul godly American cancer society, the journal of the American cancer society, uh, his, the, their position.

[00:49:23] This is their position on androgens and prostate cancer. And dr. Samuel den, Mead print off every study, you can have your uncle walk into that doctor's office and say, Why are you putting me on Andrew deprivation therapy? When the American cancer society said that it's not androgen related, and this doctor is curing aggressive, prostate cancer, curing it with testosterone.

[00:49:47] And if your doctor look you in the eye and says, that's not the standard of care, what he's really saying is I really don't care about your outcome. I'm just going to read. I'm just going to continue to do what I've been told, [00:50:00] even though it's not in your best interest, that is not a doctor. That's not a doctor now.

[00:50:06] Let's think about it logically, right? You're going to take something that belongs in the body. That's there for a reason. You're going to take it and bring it down to zero. I don't know how many people have had low, low testosterone levels, but let me tell you, you know, you're going to wish you were dead.

[00:50:26] You have no energy. Everything's negative. Everything is a struggle. Uh, it, it just, it makes no sense to me whatsoever, either from a medical perspective based on studies or anecdotal. I mean, think about it. You're gonna take something that belongs in the body out of it. Totally. That's crazy. So what, what is, what is the age coach that you would say testosterone is the highest than a man?

[00:50:55] Uh, so it's from the curves that I've seen [00:51:00] 22, 23 and now, and now how long ago did you and I, and others in our community start to recognize that men's testosterone levels are dropping decade, at least a decade long time ago. Okay. So first of all, the incidents of. Prostate cancer and 25 year old men is on the rise.

[00:51:28] Okay. But it's still only 0.2 cases per a hundred thousand up to 35 years old, but that's considered on the rise, which means that in the past, it was less than 0.2 cases per a hundred thousand. So isn't it logical. To say, well, if androgens cause prostate cancer, every 20, the five year old guy should be at risk of prostate cancer.

[00:51:51] One is Andrew to androgen levels of rape. Right? Okay. Now androgen levels are dropping in young [00:52:00] men. Even the, uh, even the labs have dropped the bottom of the asset down to almost 300, which women are like, yeah. Women are in the, in the two hundreds. Right. So now all of a sudden prostate cancer rates and young men are on the rise, but still minuscule that doesn't make sense that doctors are treating prostate cancer by wiping out testosterone it doesn't.

[00:52:27] And they're going to keep doing it. Unless you're one of the smart patients that pushes back, you are going to go to, I know a guy at my gym who was put on ADT. He doesn't look anything like he did just five years ago. He's got a big belly. He shuffles through the gym. He looks exhausted all the time. And we talked about it.

[00:52:46] I brought those studies in from Denmark to him and said, give these to your doctor. He never did it because he doesn't want to take a chance of pissing his doctorate. His doctor is killing him, piss him off, piss him off. And, and [00:53:00] if I can make one last point relative to this, never forget the doctor works for you.

[00:53:08] You are paying the doctor. It's not the other way around. A lot of people still have that mentality. It's a doctor works for you make him work. We're going to get back on track with other questions and feel free to ask questions. We'll get to them as quickly as possible. Stay tuned. We'll be right back.

[00:53:33] welcome back to the blueprint power hour here on the superhuman radio network, the longest running health and fitness podcast in the world. How do you like that? Huh? I want to, I want to do it for an at least another 10 years, and then I'll find somebody to take over for me. Um, Hey, if you think you can host a show, email me at, on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

[00:53:54] Seriously. If you think you can host this show, then you [00:54:00] may be able to help me get some time away from the microphone in the upcoming months. There you go. I'll put you on the air. Tom McGee says I want to grow my calves, but nothing's working. I read an article recently, which said. They won't grow anyway, no matter what I do on the other hand, my friend says he put two inches on his calves from prioritizing them first in his training.

[00:54:24] Who's right. Well, when it comes to calves, uh, there's an element of truth in everything that you just heard with the exception of one part, which I'll get to. So, so first off, it's probably fair to say that of all muscle groups. Calves responded the least to training. Very, very difficult. You hear the term stubborn calves all the time and I'll compare it to a muscle group like the neck, which you don't have to train much.

[00:54:55] It just takes off. It can be frustrating. So. [00:55:00] But it's also fair to say, if you pick the right parents, you probably won't have to worry much about, about training your calves. Very hard. You know, now, if you did not get, get good calf, uh, from, from your parents, then your calf development will probably be limited, uh, to where at least where the muscle.

[00:55:23] Let's say balls up when it's flexed. So the gas, the gas drops. Yeah. Yeah. If you have high calves, your ability to I purchase or feed them and what lies beneath them and solely is, will be negligible versus someone who's calves attached much closer. Yeah. To the handcuffs. I'll tell you what I don't agree with though.

[00:55:48] I absolutely positively. Do not subscribe to the notion that they won't respond at all the trainings. So don't bother train. That's ridiculous. I think it's [00:56:00] far, far more accurate to say they need a special training stimulus versus less stubborn muscle groups. So what does that mean? It means you have to, in some cases, build up to extreme poundages.

[00:56:15] And look for unorthodox methods to get them to grow. So I would also tell you that one of maybe the best way to get bigger calves is just to build a bigger, you, you know, they're, they're going to be much, your calves are going to be much bigger carrying around 250 pounds than 150. And you need only look at obese people, right?

[00:56:40] To see this truth that they have monster cows almost without exception. When I started training my calves measured 13 and two inches around at their, at their biggest point, I was so skinny. I wore sweat pants in the summer. Um, I [00:57:00] started training them like everyone else and nothing, nothing happened. I was like, what?

[00:57:05] What's this? Come on, I'm working hard. Uh, I did know that as my squats and deadlifts went up, though, my calves got better too. And that again is likely due to my increased body weight. Uh, but I also got them to grow. Another three and a half to four inches with the following methods, very heavy static holes, both seated and standing.

[00:57:32] Haven't been dynamite as a calf developer for me. So you want to load that sucker up with as much weight as you can handle in the fully contracted position. Uh, and perform two, two or three such holds for about five seconds at a time. I do that for three weeks and then I would work with longer hold times for another three weeks.

[00:57:55] Let's say up to 30 seconds. And then back to five with a [00:58:00] corresponding heavier weight, uh, I would also tell you that Kaatsu training, uh, AK or, you know, occlusion training. If there's one method that pairs well with the calves, it's probably that one, you know, I mean, you have to, you have to bring every gun that you have out to the calf training table.

[00:58:23] And I'd also tell you in that strength shoes, the kind where the platform is under the ball of your foot. Also known as jump souls that basketball players will wear. Um, those were extremely effective for me. They and the re part of the reason why is when you run in them, every step you take transfers nine times your body weight, roughly onto your calf muscle.

[00:58:51] Okay. Uh, now I would also tell you that's an extreme stress, right? I mean, they're either got to grow or [00:59:00] snap off, but relative to the snap off point, go easy with them at first. Right? When I say easy, I mean, don't even for, for like five or 10 minutes, like I did the first time I got them.

[00:59:16] I called in sick the next two to three days to work because I couldn't walk. The only way I could walk was to put on all my, all the pressure on my heel with my toes off the ground. And that's going to look kind of funny, even that even in an insurance office. Right. So go easy, walk, walk with them for 10 minutes, maybe 15 minutes, build up to half an hour and then try running in them for let's say five minutes.

[00:59:50] Just to make sure you don't do anything damage to your Achilles tendon. Some people are prone to that. Thankfully I will. [01:00:00] But those are the methods. Those are the extreme methods. Um, that works for me. And the bottom line here is if you weren't born with them, then you need to do these types of extreme things.

[01:00:13] In my opinion. Uh, intensive rotation techniques to get your calves to grow regular calf raises or whatever, whatever else you see in the gym. It's just not going to cut it. At least it didn't again. Yeah, for me. So work hard, work heavy. Uh, don't be afraid to do it frequently. Either. Your calves carry you around all day, every day.

[01:00:35] So they're used to a lot of work and they need a lot of work to get bigger. Sounds cool. So this is someone at my gym at the Lac Jomo Jelani, I think, um, also a personal trainer there if I remember correctly. And, um, the question is, uh, are there any peptides for focus also pregnant alone? So pregnant alone works both [01:01:00] ways.

[01:01:01] It can make people focused or can make people sleepy. That's something you have to experiment with, take it with a fatty meal. And I recommend if you're going to take pregnant alone to take DHA as well. So less of it converts the DHA and remains pregnant alone. Um, but you can experiment with that as far as peptides for focus.

[01:01:20] Um, di Hexa is not a peptide per se, but that's been used for focus. It's transdermal. You put it on your neck. It's actually a angiotensin, uh, seven. Enzyme. And, uh, it really works. I mean, it, um, I've used as much as 50 milligrams in one dose and it feels like the lights went on. Like it's really working.

[01:01:43] It's hard to get, you have to get it by prescription. It's fairly expensive. Um, I don't know that that's what you're looking for as far as peptides for focus goes, I think any of the peptides that. That work to improve. The brain [01:02:00] will improve focus and that's like, um, uh, FGL L. Um, even, uh, um, Oh God, you know, maybe I should take a couple of these peptides today.

[01:02:12] Uh, the, the other one that comes to comes to mind, uh, is penal on, uh, epitaph Alon. Uh, those two, those have been used for focus, but I don't think people really get the value. When people talk about focus being hyper-focused makes you kind of stare at things, stare off. Like really being focused. So I think what people really want when they say are their peptides for focus, they really mean alertness.

[01:02:43] They want to feel alert. They want to feel mental energy. They want to feel. Um, some of these peptides that we talk about that improve brain function, they don't make you more mentally alert. At least not overnight, at least not right after a shot. The thing that I [01:03:00] like the best, and I use it pretty much every morning, now that the sun has stopped, I like to go away.

[01:03:04] And that is. Uh, just, uh, 50 micrograms of mulatto, 10 to, I make it into an intranasal delivery myself. If you want to learn how go to super radio.net go all the way, the bottom of the page. And there's a video on how to make your own mulatto ten two intra-nasal. I find that that gives me that alert feeling.

[01:03:23] Right after I use it and it lasts quite a few hours. You will improve your tan, but you won't get as dark as if you were injecting. It. I'm this dark because I literally lay in the sun almost daily. My arms are the darkest because I ride my motorcycle everywhere. And from here down, I am so dark. It's unbelievable.

[01:03:43] But. If I was going to say a peptide that actually improves alertness, which I really think people mean when they say main focus because I've used, um, I've used, uh, microdosed LSD and at fairly high doses and it makes you very [01:04:00] focused. And what happens when your focus is like, you just stare, like you just, nothing breaks your attention, you just stare.

[01:04:07] So if you're looking for something to make you alert, Hexa if you can get it. And then of course, uh, give melanotan two intra-nasal a shot. Uh, and then also, yes, I heard about Rick Treyson passing away. Very, very sad. How does anybody know how old he was? Was he in his seventies? He was up there. So Dave harden, it says pure seed empiracy them does nothing for me.

[01:04:38] Uh, you'd be better off with fenal para see them if he wants to go that route, but it does nothing for me. In fact, we have a stack now that's going to start getting promoted on the show. It's four nootropics together. That absolutely works. Um, and you can get This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., which is a sponsor of ours.

[01:04:59] So Dan [01:05:00] Kapinsky and I have experimented with four different, um, nootropics. And we found the perfect blend, uh, that give you mental energy. They get, make you more alert without giving you the jitters of caffeine and stuff like that. And we'll be doing a show about that here probably within the night, a week or so.

[01:05:18] Um,  burned like heck is liposomal glutathione a decent alternative it's better than an injectable. Um, Liposomal glutathione is more effective at getting into the cells intact without undergoing oxidative stress. So, yes. Uh, so it looks like, uh, he was, uh, 76 years old. Yep. It's unanimous 76 years old. Very, very sad, very, very sad.

[01:05:46] And he's a great guy, intelligent, respectful, uh, always had good things to say about people, so he will be missed. There's no doubt about it. Um, let's go. Let's see, what time is it? Let's do this. Let's [01:06:00] take our last commercial break now. And when we come back, we have another question and then we have the blueprint tip of the day.

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[01:08:14] What's the best way to downshift. Should he even downshift coach? Yeah. This is going to be a little, little bit of a ramp about expectations, the best way. Isn't the downshift at all. It's actually to go on offense and go in the other direction. So. You know, it sounds like Tom Harry's lifted heavy his whole life and he has no injuries.

[01:08:37] So what he has been doing has obviously treated him well, good point. So he wants to downshift now. Why just cause he hit 50, if anything, he needs to keep lifting heavy and preferably keep adding weight wherever he can. To get bigger and stronger. Let me tell you a little secret. If [01:09:00] you hit age 50 and you expect to be weaker and smaller than you were at age 30, you will be if however, you hit 50.

[01:09:10] And you expect to be as strong or stronger than you were when you were 30, you will be doubly doubly. So if you have no injuries, if you're not, then either your training, your nutrition or your rest is off one of those. Now it is true. You can't lift heavy forever, but why invite for even before it's time?

[01:09:34] Right? Why not the rest forever when you get there. You know, instead of prematurely ending until now by all accounts has been a fantastic. Training career now. Sure. I might recommend some changes like, uh, dialing body weight stuff up right as you age. So if he's following my rule of thumb on that issue, uh, he be [01:10:00] performing roughly 50% body weight moves and 50% with the weights, handstand pushups with a weight vest for one to three reps.

[01:10:10] It's still plenty heavy, but it carries with it an injury risk, which is much, much less than a lots of the standing overhead stuff that I see being done anyway, in the gym, weighted chin ups and depths. Those are two of the finest exercises you can perform. They blow pull-downs and bench presses out of the water in mind.

[01:10:32] No, if your back is still in good shape. Why not still deadlift, you know, trade your stuff. Great bar and maybe for a trap bar, but still deadlift. Yeah. It gets you to the same place, lots of muscle, right? Using a big compound lift that works more muscle than any other lift I can think of and has a fraction of the injury risk.

[01:11:00] [01:11:00] The fact of the matter is using this approach. Tom might fail. On on a couple, you know, on some counts. Uh, let me show you though how he still wins. He's shooting for the stars, even if he doesn't reach him. And he hits the moon, let's say in two big lifts, continue to go up out of five. If even one of those two happens to be in the trap bar, dead lift.

[01:11:27] He wins and wins big. Why? There isn't a muscle in his back that doesn't get worked and consequently stronger with that movement, even if it's two lesser movements, what I'll call lesser movements, it's still progress. And what does progress do? It motivates anyone to get to the gym and to keep going. And hopefully.

[01:11:51] It motivates him to explore other strategies right. On his stalled lifts. Because just because you hit a plateau, doesn't mean you give up, [01:12:00] you know, that's where experience comes into play. And you've got a bag of tricks, like idea of dozens and dozens of methods to get you unstuck. Um, but even, even then, if they do get stuck for long periods of time, those stalled lifts are almost certainly miles better.

[01:12:20] Then the 50 year olds who have downshifted. Okay. So in summary, never, never downshift in the weight room, unless you absolutely have to. Let's say, you know, if you have an injury, they call this progressive resistance training for a reason, not regress. So training, not maintenance, training, progressive resistance training live it.

[01:12:48] Breathe. It love it. Do it as long as you can. And if, and when you can do it no longer, we'll talk about what to do then. So [01:13:00] go find my show. The show number is two, two, two, one. It's an episode of old man strong featuring Marvin man. And the picture you'll see of Marvin. I want to say Marvin was 60. I think Marvin is around the same age as me.

[01:13:18] Uh, so I'm 62 now. Um, he stopped competing in his fifties, but he's still out there. Marvin has got 745 pounds on the bar. He's deep in the hole in the squat and he's pushing it out. This is just a, just a regular training session for him. If you listen to the show, what you'll find out is this, that the older you get, you can still do this stuff.

[01:13:44] But there's a lot more than, yeah, it has to be done. You've got to get everything right. You've got to sleep right. You've got to eat, right? You've got to do all the right things. 100% of the time when you're young, you can do the younger, you are the less you can [01:14:00] do, you have to do right. But once you start getting older, everything has to be done.

[01:14:05] Right? Listen to Marvins interview. I mean, the picture on the on show two to two, one is impressive. When you look at it, you're going to go, Holy crap. This guy is in his sixties. But yeah, there are people out there who don't look. I was probably my strongest up through when I was 57 years old, but then injuries, foot injury.

[01:14:29] I tore a tricep muscle, blah, blah, blah. So. The reality is that I'm going to attempt to get that strong again, I'm not, I'm not done yet. I'm just trying to figure my way back into this slowly, but I know that once I start to move in this direction, I'm going to be a less fun person to be around, probably cause I'm going to be militant about getting to sleep at nine o'clock every night, which we do anyway, Alisa lives the same life.

[01:14:56] The beauty of being with Alisa is that she wants and [01:15:00] believes the same things I do. So she's all about, you know, getting to sleep early, getting to the gym, staying active, all that sort of. So it's going to be a lot easier for me to do with it than I would with just some average woman. But the reality is that.

[01:15:15] I mean, there are lots of guys that are pretty past their prime and in their sixties that is still pulling 600 pounds off the ground. They're not doing it every single day then maybe they're not even doing it every week, but they're still doing it. So I don't think that we have to, um, Let's see, we have a question.

[01:15:34] Yeah, where's the website. I can go for nootropics. Can someone post the link? Yes. I'm going to put the link up here while Rob is doing the blueprint tip of the day. I will post the link stay here. So, um, the reality is that, uh, you can still get strong. You just may have to flip more switches to get there.

[01:15:57] That's all. So I'm going to say. [01:16:00] Oh, what is the, what is the blueprint tip of the day? Rob, the tip of the day has to do with the lost art of tapering. So there's a very powerful training technique that I almost never see being used or discussed. It's called tapering. Um, and whether you call it hyper acceleration, hyper adaptation, accumulation, intensification, or planned overreaching.

[01:16:24] It's essentially the same. You strategically ramp up your training workload, right, right. To the edge of over-training. And then you pull back to allow the body to super compensate. I have made some of the most dramatic strength gains in my life using that technique. And if he studied the greats and the strength game, you'll see, you'll see it in their workouts.

[01:16:45] Um, you know, I'm going to solve them at one time or another. Used it, but bottom line, there is a mechanism inside your, you know, inside of you capable of great gains, um, that you need to understand how to [01:17:00] believe it or not. I discovered this by, yeah, that was young and stupid. And at the time I was training.

[01:17:09] Virtually every day. And then my grandfather was hospitalized with a heart condition and this had been kind of kept from me. I was still very young. Right. So in my mind, he was damned there in destruction. So I was ready to go visit him when they got word to me that he was allowed to see. Right. He's now allowed to see family.

[01:17:30] What I wasn't ready for was seeing the name ruggish on his wristband. And now that may sound odd, but it hit me, right? Like a ton of bricks. I didn't train for a week, maybe two, probably the first week off I had in, in at least a year into my amazement. When I returned to the gym, I absolutely crushed it. I knew something positive had to be going on because I didn't hurt anymore.

[01:17:58] Not, not hurt, [01:18:00] hurt, you know, the kind of banged up feeling you get when you overtrain that kind of hurt that was gone. And for the second I started that workout until the second I put the last way down. I was crushed, man. I banged out some of the best strongest. That's I never did still couldn't figure it out though, because in my mind a week off was a bad thing.

[01:18:26] Right? I mean, that was my, that was my mental reference point. It finally dawned on me what happened after I had a chance conversation with the gym, regular, an old timer. And so I explained to him what happened and he just kind of looked at me and he shrugged his shoulders. And he said, you tapered. And I was like tapered.

[01:18:45] Wow. What's this business about tapering? The next day it's time I heard about the concept was a year later and I had ordered and read Leo Costa's big beyond belief. Uh, or it might've been, no, it was big beyond belief. [01:19:00] He referred to it as hyper acceleration and hyper adaptation, but more importantly, he taught you not just one way, but a variety of ways to make it happen.

[01:19:11] And so there, it was laid out for me in black and white, plain as day. And I was fascinated with it for one simple reason. The results never had, I experienced such a command of the weights. Um, then I had only dreamed about before, as I did when I use those tapers. And when I say command to the weights, you know, and I talking about it's like, I could stop this at any point in the range of motion, hold it for five seconds and still have the gas to complete the rest of it.

[01:19:43] There was that kind of strength. So now Leo had a slightly more hypertrophy spin on it. Understandably. So because his book was about bodybuilding, but the lessons stuck and I started experimenting with other systems like that [01:20:00] to learn their nuances. Now, ultimately I combine the best elements. I think of Leo system, Charles Staley, Charles Pollock, when Dan Dushane, uh, I combined all of those into my own, which today is known like some people anyway is blueprints, famine and feast spaces.

[01:20:20] And the thing that makes them unique is that they make use of them, not just the loading and the unloading with the weights, but also the macronutrients and calorie twists that essentially make it turbo taper. That's what I was probably what I should call it. It's a little catchier, whether it's my system or someone else's though, I want to ask yourself, I want you to ask yourself this question.

[01:20:46] Who's using it in your gym. Because you don't have to look around much to find the answer. Almost nobody, a few people, right. Have heard of it and have a general idea of what it is, um, or what you're [01:21:00] talking about. But few really understand it. And fewer still have even tried it. And that's a real crime in my opinion, because done right.

[01:21:08] It's just about the most powerful training technique that you can use. I mean, think about it. You're using your body's own physiology. To slang, Slingshot itself to huge gains, huge gains, which is free by the way. And you can do it over and over. Now, some people I've spoken to, they wonder if it's something that'll work for them too, which I can only say after coaching a lot of people through it, uh, if you're a healthy human being, this mechanism, Works the result it's already inside you, male or female, you just need to do it properly.

[01:21:50] It's yours for the asking. And I highly suggest you do the ask. I just want, I wanted to bring tapering up one more [01:22:00] time because of what a fantastic, um, way to train that it is. It's exceptionally high success rate. Uh, and also it's simplicity. It's not difficult either to conceptualize or execute as a training strategy.

[01:22:19] It's just, people have a big problem with phase two, which is pulling back. You don't want to only go to the gym once or twice a day. Well then the system isn't going to work, but I can guarantee you that if you do it right. The first time you use it will certainly not be your last. Uh, and if you are just hearing about this now, get on it because I guarantee you after a little trial and error, this will be your go to training method in the future and your love of bright future.

[01:22:57] If you use it, you know, so [01:23:00] few people realize that. All of the growth happens outside of the gym. Right. I mean, I know people know that, like they know that, but they, they, they know it, but they don't, for some reason, believe it. And like, they, I think that people think, well, there's this curve like, like, okay, I trained there's this trajectory of growth.

[01:23:24] Yeah. And that if I don't get back in there quickly, um, and it's not, it doesn't work like that. If you take three days off, instead of two, your body will continue to grow for those three days. It's not like as though only grew for the first two. And if you don't get in there on the third to start that cycle again.

[01:23:41] No, that's not how it works. I know power. I know powerlifters. That trained one day a week. Now, granted, they had a specialty. I had a friend who was that's, all he did was bench press, but he only bench press once a week. He had a 700 pound bench press. [01:24:00] So, so like, but he came in on Sundays and you know why?

[01:24:04] Well, he had to make some life decisions. He was an executive, he had a family, he could take Sunday to himself. And he believed that if he trained and he was at the gym for five hours on Sunday, he was there for five hours, but he believed this was Jeff Ruiz, a powerhouse gym. He believed that if he did the work on Sunday, the right way, he would need that entire week to recover.

[01:24:33] And the guy had a 700 pound bench press. So he obviously it works right. That's why I, that's why I laugh. When people say. Oh, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Tuesday, your body doesn't know it's Monday. It doesn't know it's Tuesday. It doesn't know any of that sort of stuff. You know, some people train once a week and they see great results.

[01:24:56] Like I said before, my answer, the optimal training [01:25:00] frequency is the one where you can recognize consistent strength increases from workout to workout. Period. End of story. That's once a week it's once a week, once a month it's once a month do it. Oh, I agree. I agree. Great show today. I think we really knocked it out of the pool park.

[01:25:17] Um, again, I've had had people send in videos where they talked about the blueprint, power being their favorite show. Right. I sent that. Yeah. Happy to you. Oh, nice. Thank you. If you are, if you are a fan of this show, if you're a fan of the blueprint power hour, if you're a fan of the pep talk, if you're a fan of superhuman radio in general.

[01:25:37] I'm asking you to help me out. And if you think I suck. I really want to hear from you. Uh, if you just take like a 62nd quick video, but no longer than three minutes, please with your phone, just do right now, right after the show. Just point at yourself and say, Carl, you suck. I can't stand listening to you, but you're such a train wreck I have to tune in every day.

[01:25:59] I [01:26:00] can't wait to see that. I know I'm going. I may do that one myself. Uh, send it to, and then upload This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. slash your story. And we will use it. I promise you, we will use it. Um, that's it for today, that's it? No, I'm good. Thank you for having me. Yeah, of course. And we'll see you next week and we'll see about it tomorrow.

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