Rob Regish
Listener questions are answered about training, nutrition, supplementation and more.
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Show Notes:
[4:33]- “How is your training going lately?”- “What lessons have you learned from training recently?”
-Carl discusses his plans for rehabbing his foot.
[6:56] Rob discusses how Jiu-Jitsu has affected his training and the differences between “weight-lifting” shape and “fighting” shape.
[8:08] Rob discusses the importance of viewing failure and struggle as an opportunity to grow.
[12:31] “Is it possible to train too hard?”
-Rob discusses “the wall” and regression from training too hard.
-GAS theory- General Adaptation to Stress
- Brief period of stress.
- Recovery period.
- Super-compensation period of growth.
[21:15] Carl and Rob discuss methods for assessing recovery in an athlete.
[22:15] Rob discusses the 3 types of tribulus as well as their test-boosting capabilities.
- Terrestris
- Aquatis
- Alatus
[28:25] Rob discusses DMAA sources and alternatives.
[30:05] Kratom shelf-life, effect duration, and legality are discussed.
[35:43] Measures of cardio-vascular health in lifters.
-Rob outlays a couple of protocols for assessment, and Carl discusses how steady-state walking cardio is undervalued.
[45:43] Blueprint Tip of the Day- Rob discusses the scare tactics that the media has used to blame steroids for cancer. Rob gives his opinion on the true cause as to why Lyle Alzedo blamed steroids for his cancer.
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[00:00:00] If we can do this show today without having to switch to telephones it's going to be a miracle. I don't know if there's a problem with be live TV. I've been chasing the problem all morning long. And now I'm starting to think it's that their platform. Today is Tuesday. We have the blueprint Power Hour and.
[00:00:45] To not to piss off the radio and all blueprint Army fall in line. It's time for the blueprint Power Hour with Coach Rodriguez on the Superhuman radio network.
[00:01:00] [00:01:00] I don't want to piss off the technology gods and and hold you off too long because the cameras will drop again and it's this has been a joke this morning. But okay. We're here welcome to the blueprint Power Hour with Coach Rodriguez and myself where we answer your questions, and if. Want to ask questions you can post them here on Facebook and we will work them into the discussion today.
[00:01:22] That's the best we can do right now. How you doing Rob? What's no I am doing excellent. How about you? Yeah, I'm actually doing really good myself. Tell you the truth that you know, I'm sleeping better. And when I sleep well life is. Yeah, you're going to the Arnold to write I leave Thursday. I'll be spending all day Saturday at the redcon one booth.
[00:01:42] So if you're there, please come by and say hello because I'm going to be amongst all these bodybuilders. No one's going to know who I am, you know right now, so hopefully some people know I am you never know. So anyway, you're freaking get those free samples and let me know. Nah, man, I don't do that.
[00:01:59] [00:02:00] That's not my thing. And I think know it's like trick-or-treating for adults. It's at that place. That's true. Everybody's walking around. They got shopping bags. They run back to their rooms. They empty the shopping bags. They come back. They do it all over again and they go home with like $6,000 worth of product.
[00:02:14] Yeah, but you know, it's nice that they can do that. Yeah, and for a lot of people over for a lot of companies rather several in. They launched their pre-workout products and they really took off one and one that I'm thinking about. But of course later on it was discovered that it was a designer stimulant, which wasn't listed on the label.
[00:02:40] But be that as it may the Arnold is not a bad place to kind of gauge the health of the supplement industry based on who's there. How many folks are there and what their their risk how profitable and you know what so in past years the the exhibitors were dropping off but now this year they're having a banner year.
[00:02:59] I found out [00:03:00] so just goes to show you the economy is doing better. People are spending more money on this stuff. Right? Right. That's the sign. So we're going to get right into it. So these are questions that have been submitted. Don't have names for all of them. That's why they kind of ended up in this list today.
[00:03:13] The first one is as of late. Wait, did I do something wrong? No, that's it. Yeah training as of late and Lessons Learned From. That's a question to both you and I apparently right. Yeah. Do you want to go first you want to meet you? I'll go first because your discussion is probably more interesting right now.
[00:03:31] I mean, I'm not training lower body, and I really need to and I can't wait to and I just can't wait to be able to get up in the morning and just go for a walk, but it's getting. I'm spending more and more time without the boot on so that's a good thing. You still want to physical therapy? No. No, I'm not doing I'm doing my own physical therapy.
[00:03:47] I know enough about physical therapy to to get this foot to work that you know, what I got to do walk walk walk walk walk walk and then walk some more that's going to fix the foot and everything else in my legs before I start actually training legs [00:04:00] again, my upper body training is going good. I continue to get stronger.
[00:04:05] That's the important thing. Yeah, so I'm happy with that. And I'm just doing it every other day routine right now because I'm kind of coasting, you know until my lower body comes up. I'm just doing one day on one day off and I just keep rotating, you know chest shoulders. I do push pull Push Pull.
[00:04:24] That's it. I love the push-pull routine. I think it's excellent. Especially for lifters that have been training for years just allows me to focus better on those muscle groups. So I wish you nothing but a speedy recovery my. And ya know it I've I've resigned myself to the fact that I'm going to be walking for the next seven or eight months that that's going to be in and of itself working my way up to an hour of morning walking and then I'll keep training Push Pull in the meantime, and maybe I'll even start to do some light leg extensions and stuff like that.
[00:04:57] It's gonna take me a while. You know, I'm [00:05:00] 60. I keep forgetting. It's really easy. You know what, you know, what's really funny. I realize that I should feel very blessed because I really do feel a lot younger than I am and my body responds a lot better and my expectations of myself for a lot higher than I got a lot of friends that are like more like sliding into home base right now, and I'm like no no, man.
[00:05:22] We there's a lot of there's a lot more to do yet, right, you know, and so it's and it's because I feel good overall. I feel good. 60 is the new 30 or as you like to say old is the new Young. Yeah. There you go. How about you? How are you training? So you've had some you had some things go on your also training for Jiu-Jitsu.
[00:05:42] How's your training change now that translates to a better ground game for instance? Yeah interesting question. So I walk into my first Jiu-Jitsu class at about 250 pounds and I quickly find out. [00:06:00] After I start rolling with a guy who's 150 how effective Jiu-Jitsu is, but also how quickly your gas out when you're not used to that type of combat.
[00:06:11] So it's very clearly to became very clear to me very fast weightlifting shape is not finding shape right weightlifting and strength of course will always be a component and a big component of fighting but it takes a shift in. I'm sir and so I had to divvy up the weight training and the cardio and make adjustments now interestingly enough as of late.
[00:06:40] I've kind of had a mixed bag and by that I mean this for over a year now. I've had a goal of box squatting 500 pounds and started at 400 have used loading patterns almost exclusively during that time and it has [00:07:00] taken me much longer than that. I thought it would originally and that's due primarily to I had multiple back injuries two or three I have the.
[00:07:11] I had a bout with rhabdo and other challenges in life that just you know, that present themselves you need to be able to adjust but long story short last Saturday I Peak and I get my five hundred pound box plot yesterday. I rolled into the gym and say to myself. I'm going to take you know free squat take the box away.
[00:07:34] And I'm going to wrap my knees to so 500 pounds should be a breeze right not so fast. I got in there yesterday and I tried 500 once missed it badly. And then strip the bar down put it put all the weight back on. Oh man, that's [00:08:00] what I was worried about. That's what I was worried about. Rob I don't know if you can hear me anymore, but we are completely frozen out of we're going to switch to we're going to just switch to telephone here in just a second.
[00:08:13] Just sit tight everybody. I'm not going to not going to fool with this stuff here. Hold on a second. Let's just do this the old-fashioned way. And forget about Facebook live and we'll just finish the quest so you were talking about box squatting and you were talking about how you did get through and you did Bock you missed your first attempt, right miss my first attempt and then a little boy that I trained his name's Gerard got there just before my second attempt and.
[00:08:42] He saw me miss it and he obviously felt bad and so he said to me, I'm sorry. He says I wanted you to get it that's sweet. And I looked at him and I said, I appreciate that. Thank you. I said but I want you to understand something. I [00:09:00] tried and failed. I did not fail to try right big difference. So he you know, he smile crossed his face I could see.
[00:09:11] That he understood it. And so he took that lesson to heart so I explained to him I said because you're young because you just started and kind of also because of the way that I'm metering out the exercises the sets and the Repsol so forth every workout for him is a success. He goes up and pretty dramatically in most of his exercises I said, but I want you to understand something it's not always going to be that way.
[00:09:40] Matter of fact right lifting is a great. Teacher for life you're going to have good days. You're going to have bad days the difference between good and great lifters. Are that great lifters retool. They analyze what may have gone wrong? [00:10:00] They re-strategize and come up with a new method of training such that they can return to that lift and get it and I explained to him I said you're on the day is coming where I'll hit by 500 I said, but I want you to understand this.
[00:10:17] It's going to mean so much more because I missed today. Day I said the magic is often times not even in accomplishing your goal. It's the struggle it's the struggle. And in fact, I will tell you this when I hit that five hundred box wat it was so anticlimactic because as much as I value that what I valued even more was the struggle from 400 to.
[00:10:45] Right. That's what separates the men from the boys. That's it. And then you know, you have to be patient. But you have to keep going and you know a lot of people and that's why you have so many people program jumping [00:11:00] because they don't see the results that they think they deserve that dangerous word deserve that they think they deserve for the work that they put in and they stopped short leash they switch gears.
[00:11:13] Yep. So here's a question that kind of fits right into that. Is it possible to train too hard?
[00:11:21] Absolutely, and that's a great that's a great question. The answer to that is yes. Now I want you to so one of the things that I learned early on was that you could do the take your life with a barbell thing and actually go backwards so hard training athletes will always encounter. The wall so-called catabolic wall where for all of the training intensity that you put out your body responds with a cortisol.
[00:11:54] Backlash that's even greater and it's worse than the fact that you [00:12:00] actually go nowhere. You can go in reverse you can actually get weaker. Do the central nervous system disinhibition and if you study and you look up, dr. Hansel's gas Theory General Adaptation to stress. It's very clear that a training a proper training stimulus will result in a brief period of fatigue a slightly longer period of recovery.
[00:12:27] And then a period of super compensation where you get larger and stronger before it's a you have that return to Baseline, there's something however known and this is what's applicable in so far as training too hard. There's something known as the Goldilocks. Goldilocks if you remember was looking for porridge, but I think made by three bears one was too hot one was too cold in one was just right in the Goldilocks principle.
[00:13:01] [00:13:00] If you train too hard, if you make too big of an inroads into your recovery the dip that you see associated with fatigue last longer much longer the dip is further exacerbated during recovery. And even a long time after the training session, you will not reach a period of super compensation. But rather at best you'll get a return to Baseline.
[00:13:32] So let me give you one very pointed example.
[00:13:37] There is a particular squat workout leg workout that I did. That fit this to a tee and here so here's what I did. I started with 315 pounds on the squat I did. Hello, 10 reps strip 90 pounds off immediately. Did you know 225 for 15 or 20 strip 90 more pounds off and then with 135. I just burned it out.
[00:13:59] I [00:14:00] don't know. I can't remember how many reps 20 30 something like that. But hold on. We're not done yet you back away from the bar. And you proceed to jump as high as you can into the air. And as soon as you hit the ground you rebound again do it again you do that until your legs give out but hold on.
[00:14:22] We're still not done at that point you perform extreme stretches. And if memory serves it was a quadricep stretch, you know where you're laying on the ground you've. You're let's say right leg quadricep stretched quite a bit the other leg out in front of you and then you lean back and place a dumbbell round about your knee which constitutes waited stretching.
[00:14:51] I will tell you that as painful as those squats were and jumps were the the weighted [00:15:00] stretches were even worse, but here's my point. After that workout, I was not stronger than next workout. I was not stronger than next week. I was not stronger two weeks later. I was just getting back to where I was three weeks later.
[00:15:20] So just remember this whenever you're tempted to do something crazy like that understand the Goldilocks principle. It can't be too little but it can't be too much. It needs to be just right and finding that is a function of frankly documentation and lifting maturity. So yeah, that's my two cents you can train too hard and that's a good example of how to do it.
[00:15:52] Now flirting with overtraining is a different thing that Leo Kosta promoted in in big beyond belief, and that's where. [00:16:00] Paying attention to to be honest with you because right right. He said I will be right back going to run real quick commercial. Welcome back. You know, we started the show out on Facebook live and then we switch Midstream to the telephone and I'm looking down and I'm going oh man that the telephone line is up.
[00:16:18] I don't want it to like make noise in the background and I hit the button and dropped it. I was like, oh no, I forgot. I'm a I'm an idiot. Okay, so did I cut you? Fewer still finishing your thoughts on that or do you want to move on to the next question my point being there your training stimulus can't be too little it can't be too much.
[00:16:41] It needs to be just right and you will find that primarily. Through documentation and trial and error. Yeah, and and one of the things that you can do is check your resting heart beat first thing in the morning because of its rapid it's you're getting close to overtraining or maybe you are overtrained.
[00:16:57] And the other thing is you can do the technique [00:17:00] that I learned from Dan John and that is pick any key on a keyboard open up the word processor or text document and tap it as many times as you can in 30 seconds. And if you're well rested you'll probably tell. But a lot more than if you're getting close to being fatigued, so you have to do this one time the first time when you know, you're well rested.
[00:17:21] You're like, wow, I haven't trained in for five days. Let me try this and you maybe in 30 seconds you'll tap it. I don't know 215 times and then you train for two or three weeks and you start getting into the overtraining and you try it and you find that. Oh, man. I can't even get to 200. That's really unique.
[00:17:38] I usually use heart rate, but I'm going to try that next time. Yeah, it's you know, it's. Can you can use it to triangulate if heart rate isn't enough information for you? Because you typically run a fast heart rate already. You can add those two things together. Okay. So here's another question.
[00:17:55] What are the three types of Tribulus? And you know what and I would like to [00:18:00] add. Parenthetically does Tribulus really even do anything worthwhile. Other than make you feel a little more libido? I think I have the answer to that. But okay good. Ms. May there are in fact three different types of Tribulus despite the fact that 90% of what you will see on the market today is Tribulus terrestris.
[00:18:26] So the three types are tribulus terrestris. Tribulus aquatic. And the third called Tribulus a lot of so a little bit about each Tribulus terrestris is the or was the original form introduced in this country in 1988. It comes the best stuff comes from Bulgaria and is very high in the active ingredient for roasts and all acceptance.
[00:18:58] You will also note [00:19:00] Tribulus is marketed as a testosterone. And so when we're talking about Tribulus terrestris, the reality is there's very little research showing that it increases testosterone. I've seen everything from twelve to thirty percent, but we need to put that in context 30% on the total test level of 300 gets your from 303 night.
[00:19:27] That's not really going to move the needle now what Tribulus terrestris is, very good for though is libido I suspect because the effect it has on the brain. No. No, it increases increases the weight and size of the vesicle. apparatus which is basically the prostate and the plumbing to and from the prostate and if anyone knows anything about the.
[00:19:56] You know that a man can achieve orgasm from a [00:20:00] phenomenon called milking the prostate and when guys start having prostate problems, they actually have like a tingling a tickling feeling in the tip of their penis. And so if your prostate gets excited for lack of better terms, you have a libido you'll get an aroused you get like a sensation down there, right?
[00:20:20] So there is obviously there's a an effect on libido. The Improvement in erections largely comes from the nitric oxide effect of said for roasts and oleg's happen and it does show a 20 percent increase to igf-1 levels, which may explain the fact that in some studies. It was shown in older individuals muscle mass.
[00:20:48] It didn't exactly, you know get magnified but they didn't lose muscle mass either. So it's something to consider Tribulus aquatic is probably the least [00:21:00] known of the three. It showed up many years ago in the product called USP Labs. The reality though is that Tribulus aquatic is is probably the least potent of all three and relative to what I've said on the show many many times good products last because people keep buying.
[00:21:23] USP Labs Prime hasn't been in circulation that years and years. It had about a five-year run you saw people get what was largely in my opinion a placebo effect. And then it was gone. The final type of Tribulus is Tribulus a lot of sand here. We do see some Research indicates. That it can boost testosterone levels and free testosterone both Total and free.
[00:21:53] I don't recall with the exact increases where but if I were to speculate I'm [00:22:00] almost entirely certain. It's not going to boost them to Super physiological levels which increase protein synthesis and nitrogen retention eccentrics. Having said that it's been around all these years because people get a visible feelable effect from it.
[00:22:18] The final thing you should know is that Tribulus particularly Tribulus terrestris has a fair amount of research showing benefit to heart function and this again goes back to its nitric oxide properties the absolute best. I I hesitate to call it a Tribulus product but it was lumped in with them many years ago.
[00:22:40] There was a product called Foo zoo on the market and it was a combination of three herbs which are standardized to very high levels of for roasting all acceptance. Those three were Tribulus terrestris fenugreek and a lesser-known Daya scoria [00:23:00] deltoid. White went out of production. I don't know I seem to get a nice little effect from it today.
[00:23:09] The best for roasts and all except in and Tribulus you can get is a product called adaptogen and from muscle and sports. They do a very nice job with that one and it's a whopping 1,500 mg 3 cap nighttime dose, which is pretty much double when everyone's else's so those are the three types of Tribulus.
[00:23:34] That's what they do. And that would be my product recommendation. Also the original Tribulus terrestris. The product name is called tribest in that is also an acceptable alternative. So I just got this message on Facebook from Brendan Murphy. Yep. He says you do, you know of any supplements [00:24:00] out there today that still contain dmaa or any type of amphetamine analogs?
[00:24:07] The short answer to your question is yes, but they're rapidly disappearing. Dmaa. That fight was the supplement industry. Tree. in particular one individual in his company fought that the FDA on it. They went back and forth for years long story short dmaa was removed from the market. You may find a few companies with some Overstock of there was a product called mesomorph with dmaa in it.
[00:24:39] Dmh a I think it. Is a notch Below dmaa in its function and its stimulatory properties, but that too was ruled to be not naturally occurring having said that I've seen it in a few products. [00:25:00] In the UK Predator nutrition where you can also get progenitor directions in Pigeon. I've seen it in a few products over there.
[00:25:09] I would not anticipate it would have a problem clearing customs here, you know, very few Customs inspectors are going to know. The herbal source of it which is listed as Kinko Foley extract I think it is on the label, so if you want to get dmh a I would get it over there and import it. The next question is how long is Kratom good for and I don't know if that question means when you take a dose.
[00:25:39] How long does the effects last or how long does it stay good doesn't perish if you store it away and how would you store it? Which what? You interpret that question. Well, I can answer both of them. A lot of great time has a best by date like many other supplements what I have found. I [00:26:00] just did this this morning.
[00:26:02] I broke out some green Malay. I had what I got three years ago three and a half years ago. Well, it's the same as I got it. The first day was here, you know, so there doesn't seem to be some magical process where on the expiration date the active ingredients over Sudden Change to something else. So I'll tell you what's good for at least a minimum of three years on point number two.
[00:26:27] How long does it last that largely depends by you know, which strain you're using a strain like green Malay or green Indo will. About seven hours the Reds usually last between four and six and the whites which are stimulatory seem to last between two and four. So it depends on what you're using it for and you know a few other particulars now more timely we get to and that data and [00:27:00] create time and its legality so several years ago.
[00:27:04] The FDA in the DEA attempted to literally in the middle of the night try to ban creto. They really they pushed it through with no public comment period which if I'm not mistaken as required by law long story short the Kratom Lobby in this company, which is probably the most well organized supplement freedom.
[00:27:31] organization. That I have seen in a long time the American Kratom Association successfully pushed that back and. you know called for the public comment period. our representatives and senators were flooded with telephone calls letters emails from individuals who are using it to get off opioids and in general talking about how wonderful it [00:28:00] was but here's the latest.
[00:28:03] FDA hack Scott Gottlieb, I think he's the acting commissioner. After he hasn't been able to get his prized Federal ban on Kratom because the American Kratom Association exposed his lies and the American people as I mentioned stood up to his tyranny. He had previously ordered. An import alert that all but shut down crate Tom coming or going into right coming through customs into America.
[00:28:34] So now his new tactic is to be is to go state to state and get the individual states to try and ban. Currently there are six states work Ray Thomas ma'am those being Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Tennessee Vermont in Wisconsin. I'm going to tell you now if you value your [00:29:00] supplement freedoms and in particular kratom.
[00:29:03] Visit the American Kratom associations website get on their mailing. And consider joining the fight there. They are having some wonderful success stories here too. For example, there was a ban in Utah, they successfully overturn that bam. Okay, so I want you to sign up for the newsletter if you have the means contribute to the fight.
[00:29:32] However little it may. And you don't want to be taking surprised obviously in your state these people the American Kratom Association are our only hope they are incredibly effective at what they do. They are in Washington DC and they contract with lawyers in the States. This is very important. I want people to understand this [00:30:00] this battle.
[00:30:01] Is about more than kratom. It's about consumers. Hours standing up for their supplement rights. And stopping the FDA and the DEA which exists only to protect the pharmaceutical companies and in fact great Tom is their chosen fight. Because what's great, I'm taking away from them. Oh man, they're opioids and more than that and pain relievers in general.
[00:30:33] They really respond General and listen, you know that they want to say create sounds dangerous and will kill people bull absolute bull. You take too many opioids. We all know what happens die. Stop. You forget to Breathe Right your respiratory system shuts down. If you take too much great time the worst thing that's going to happen.
[00:30:52] You get nauseous and your vomit like a elunatan you got to throw it up. You might be a little dizzy, but that's it. Okay, [00:31:00] nobody's dying from Kratom. Despite the what these people want you to believe so look join the fight understand. It's about more than crate down and let's stop the FDA in the DEA.
[00:31:15] Next question is what's a good measure of cardiovascular health for a person who lifts predominantly? Yeah, you know, I think this is a good question because. we're obviously going to be. A different standard than someone who's a triathlete someone who's a marathon runner, right somebody who does cardio for the sake of cardio?
[00:31:38] I've tried many many different things and. and there are several ways to go about it. One of the best is using a sled to push into Poland to Sprint weapon to push within the you know, pull backwards and forwards but not everybody has a sweat not everybody has, you know stadium stairs to [00:32:00] run not everybody has these things most people that go to a gym.
[00:32:03] Oh have access to a treadmill, so I've come up with to work. That if you can complete them, then you're in pretty darn reasonable cardiovascular shape for somebody who lifts weights test. Number one is being able to run on the treadmill if you can run for a mile in 10 minutes without being totally gassed out you're in pretty good shape for a lifter the other workout.
[00:32:32] I particularly like this one a lot more and the data's clear high intensity interval training is superior. This hit test is the one I really want you to work towards set a treadmill speed 10 level 10, which is moving pretty good set the incline to 10 it goes up to 15. So you have some perspective and then I want you to Sprint for 10 seconds and rest for 10 Sprint for [00:33:00] 10 seconds rest for 10 if you can do that for 10.
[00:33:05] You're in pretty good cardiovascular shake for a lifter and I can tell you anecdotally if I'm able to complete. Eat two of those hits sessions in a week. I've seen some nice fat loss around the waist. Just so you know, there it is in both instances. Cardio is not going to take you more than 10 minutes.
[00:33:29] It is going to be challenging. But listen you need to do it for the heart and lungs. And the Checker and at the end of the day if you strike the right balance between intensity and frequency. It will only benefit not take away from your weight training. Yeah. I'm a big fan of something that Nate Morrison is talked about on the show for a long time.
[00:33:51] And that is the beauty of just walking I think that intensity and intense cardiovascular training is [00:34:00] important, but I also think that slow steady state which people find the most. Is important because from an evolutionary perspective what we did all day was walk and we sprinted a little bit here and there, but we walked a lot of the lower back problems that predominate our population.
[00:34:18] I believe can be tracked back to lack of warding walking and the increase in sitting walking. Can actually cure your bad back if you have a bad lumbar problem. If you started walking every day, you will find out within a couple months. You don't have a bad lumbar problem anymore. Yep. So I think walking is important and.
[00:34:44] I think walking, you know half hour 45 minutes 40 minutes, you know, it doesn't have to be anything crazy, but definitely just walking it has a great value to in it. It's been shown that walking versus running does something very different to the heart. [00:35:00] Sabina skala came on the show. She's a strength and conditioning coach from the UK and she came on the show and she talked about the importance for UFC MMA fighters to just walk.
[00:35:11] So yeah, I would agree. I would Echo those comments. I forgot who it was, but I said once you know walking delivers. Eighty to ninety percent of the benefits of jogging with only 10% of the you know, deleterious effects impact high impact all that sort of stuff exactly. Right exactly and let's face it, you know for people.
[00:35:34] Yeah, we're used to going in the gym and living a healthy lifestyle and being active someone who wants to get in better shape instead of going to the gym and knocking themselves out five days a week. Just start by walking. You know people that are very heavy. That's all they're going to be able to do.
[00:35:56] So, you know haven't walked whatever a hundred [00:36:00] yards and then the next day 200 and then, you know build that up. It's nice because they're all so they can see themselves progressing. Right? And here's the big thing. They don't hurt the next day when they get out of bed.
[00:36:18] Yeah, that's my thought on cardio for you know, I was in the best shape of my life when the judge took my car away during my divorce and I was living in Arizona. I was walking to and from the gym every day. I was walking from my mom's house to my sister's house where I had my studio setup every day.
[00:36:36] I was wearing a backpack. I was always carrying stuff. I got nice and tan and I got I got ripped man when I came. The Kentucky after that it was the middle of summer here. And I remember I'll never forget this. I had an apartment with a pool right outside my back sliding glass door. And so after my show, I used to just go out and lay in the sun.
[00:36:59] I [00:37:00] mean I loved it. It was so great. I was coming back from the pool one day. And there was a groundskeeper and he was working and he looked up at me. He said you look just like Johnny Weiss Mula you remember who Johnny Weissmuller? All right. Yep. He played Tarzan. Yep, I was dark tan. My hair was all curly and I said to him that's the nicest compliment anybody's ever paid to me because my father thought Johnny Weissmuller was just the best but yeah, you know walking walking will change your body for the better just.
[00:37:34] Yeah, we're going to take one quick commercial break when we come back. We have the blueprint tip of the day and it's important one stay tuned. I think it's funny that with all the technology. I'm trying to. incorporate into every show we go back to the tried-and-true audio podcast as the backup.
[00:37:52] So what is the blueprint tip of the day rub? Well the tip of the day something I came across when I was [00:38:00] Googling around tip of the day. Is that convenient villain how the public was programmed to think steroids killed Lila Zeta. So as I said, I was poking around YouTube this week and I came across the Lyle Alzado story.
[00:38:18] It was complete with the teary-eyed interview. We did with Roy Firestone. We proceeded to blame steroids for his inoperable brain tumor. He later appeared if you remember, I'm the cover of Sports Illustrated with the caption. I lied. So they're sat the formerly ferocious defensive end at one point nearly 300 pounds of muscle, but now he's a mere shadow of himself sobbing over the Cortland quote mistake that he made.
[00:38:51] But using steroids for pretty much his entire career by his own admission to this day. I was Ada was remembered [00:39:00] not for his incredible football accomplishments. But rather for the fact steroids killed them. There's only one problem with that story. It isn't. All over I was a toes doctors around record as stating that there was no link between steroids and his illness I'll say again all of his doctors.
[00:39:25] Let that really sink in for a minute. Okay to further investigate that. I consulted a friend of mine that works in the cancer field here were his comments. I've worked in cancer therapy for seven years and have never heard of cancers caused by steroids. In fact, we use steroids to treat many cancer patients as you can imagine the wasting associated with such so so the question is, what was the blame?
[00:39:56] As I look at it, there are several possibilities one. The [00:40:00] growth hormone he was using was derived from cadavers. It was apparently from Europe and if contaminated had been known to cause a relative of creutzfeldt-jakob disease, which is essentially mad cow in humans. There were also rumors of his bisexuality and consequently.
[00:40:24] It may have been late stage that killed him or a brain tumor link to a page that again perfectly healthy people who have never used a performance-enhancing drug in their life or engaged in high-risk sexual behavior. They get brain tumors to at this point in the 60-year life. Michael of the drugs there have been millions of people that have used them and no links to cancer.
[00:40:57] You may see something with Anna drawl [00:41:00] and Cancers of the liver, but literally nothing else that I can think of or could find other side effects. Sure. But no linked to cancer, you know nor frankly to mortality. You know, when you do see guys on steroids dying if usually because of other things that they're using so why did I lose a toe rail so vigorously against them?
[00:41:27] I've Got a Theory and it goes back to the original pillars of his psyche as a no was the son of an alcoholic father who also be this. Father he molested his sisters and he be those 802. So by all accounts the situation never got any better only worse. So I was a no wanted many things in life, but none matter to him more.
[00:41:55] Okay than this he wanted his father to love them but it [00:42:00] never happened later on he fell in love with the Denver Broncos. Okay only to be dead. They did when they traded him to the Cleveland Browns. He also married four times. None of them ever lasted long. He was lauded by professional football teams and certainly the fans even winning a Super Bowl with the Raiders and appearing in TV commercials be movies and even box Muhammad Ali ones, but none of it gave him what he so desperately.
[00:42:33] You wanted to feel loved by someone anyone? One his father never gave that to him. The Broncos didn't give it to him his comeback at age 40 with the Raiders saw them cut him loose. So even a Super Bowl ring could not fill the void and I was a toes heart but maybe. Playing one more Dragon could [00:43:00] he would blame his brain tumor on the convenient villain steroids now predictably the media aided up.
[00:43:09] They were granting him interviews left and right they were loading him for this courage to speak out right against the devil's drug. His message was everywhere. Please kids don't take this stuff and pay for it with your life. So I'm dying because the steroids but I'm trying to save you for that. He was admired by everyone who interviewed him Sports Illustrated.
[00:43:35] Okay, the world news his fourth and final wife, you know, they were all fawning over him because he was pointing the finger at the drug. Now only I was a donor. If any of that made them feel loved I suspect it. Didn't you know that he died a Broken Man still searching for peace, but [00:44:00] finding none of it now, I've studied many and I was a doe interview much of his playing history and I've heard testimony from his friends and family.
[00:44:10] He was an angry man and he played the game and an aggressive manner not seeing really before sense, you know. Beat an opposing player with his own helmet the NFL instituted something that came to be known as the Jose. No rule. That should tell you how he played the game. He picked fights. He pulled face masks.
[00:44:30] He Trash Talk incessantly, the only time I saw a flicker of Happiness cross his face. Was when he was doing charity work, and he did a lot of it. Here he was in the prime of his career. He was bringing Comfort to. Terminally ill children and I want you to look look for yourself online. See these videos to see what I'm talking about as he took the hand of one small child [00:45:00] and he brought a smile to his face.
[00:45:02] I realized something that Sports Illustrated the world news and every major media Outlet in this country failed to tell you. by his own admission. He was on steroids. Entire time. I'm something to consider the next time you hear about the evils done by everyone's convenient villain. You know, it's really sad and remember the other guy who lost his son.
[00:45:36] Putin - yeah, so the dad was on my show back in 2006 that guy I mean that's despicable what he's doing and he's turned it into a living he made a living out of it. Yeah making a living off his son's death. It's really sad. But but I mean tell Taylor hooton they blame that they blamed it on anabolic steroids when it was really the antidepressants that made him kill himself, but no one ever talked about that right nor the [00:46:00] fact that and I even asked his father.
[00:46:02] Right. I got a very kind of you. He had a sister that attempt suicide suffers from depression. Well, you know, what? Here's the thing Taylor did use he did use underground anabolic steroids. We know that he used them long enough to have hypothalamus pituitary testicular axis shut down. Yep, and the psychiatrist that they took him to.
[00:46:31] Made him. Stop taking the testosterone did not know anything about PCT didn't suggest anything about weaning off of it. Just put them right on an antidepressant. Right? And so. the kid. Rightfully, so having all of his hormones crash at the same time. They put him on drugs that affect the brain. He became severely depressed the dad talked about how depressed he was but they weren't blaming it on the test.
[00:46:59] The [00:47:00] the antidepressant I said to his father and I could hear the remorse in his voice when I asked them. I said to him Don. In retrospect. Do you think that the antidepressants played some role in this because you're not I explained to him what PCT was I explained to him? What happens when you start using exogenous hormones.
[00:47:20] I explained to him that you feel like crap. If you just stop taking it and throw into the mix a drug that back then we knew was causing suicidal thoughts right and you could hear it. He. Locked intent. and so what he said was well, we just followed the doctor's orders and that's exactly his argument.
[00:47:44] You tell him look down. It wasn't the steroids. It was Lexapro. He'll say are you a doctor because the doctors. Told us that he was suffering from post cycle depression, etc. Etc. [00:48:00] Well my argument sis that's a convenient political argument. That's not going to raise any eyebrows. When was the last time you saw a doctor?
[00:48:10] Say? Yeah. You know what Lexapro can cause suicide Oh They'll Never say that that will that patients will sue them never know they can't say. So, you know, there it is. It's unfortunately politics has clouded right the lens which their words are seeing through look nobody's saying, you know, extremely high dose antibiotics without a break for four decades isn't going to might have some you know consequences but just nonsense that they kill people is just that in my opinion.
[00:48:48] And women it's even women who use high doses of testosterone they end up with a lot of fibrotic tissue accumulation in the heart. They eventually they die of a heart attack. Yeah, and unfortunately in women, you know in [00:49:00] men when you stop the drugs almost all the side effects, he's in women some such as deepening of The Voice or irreversible.
[00:49:11] So that's not even I mean so you got a deep voice, but I'm. The women who work using high doses of testosterone are causing changes in their heart that will kill them someday. Those women will die of a heart attack, they'll just and they won't be very old me. We're seeing that we see it all the time.
[00:49:29] We always see some female bodybuilder who passed away in her 50s or 40s, you know way too young everybody's like, oh she that's way too young. Yeah. If you're a woman and you're doing excuse me, you're doing you know, 500 milligrams to and 50 milligrams of testosterone ship you need a week and and maybe even more some of these women are doing.
[00:49:51] I don't know. It's been shown to cause. The tissue in the heart to remodel in a more [00:50:00] fibrotic pattern and fibrous tissue doesn't it's not smooth. It's not easy to contort. It makes it difficult for the heart to beat the heart has to work harder and then you hear about these women. And they died of a heart attack.
[00:50:15] It's really sad because that's it. You know, I don't know what these women are chasing. I don't know what they're chasing. Yeah, that's a sad situation. But so too, like I said is that was a no, I mean, you know to go out like that. I thought I thought there was a very sad weak pathetic way to go nobody wishes that.
[00:50:41] Anybody but you can't you can't lay blame like that, especially especially when you've got all of your doctors saying look there is no link whatsoever. Let me come on. Yeah, but they just ignore that that's the thing is. [00:51:00] Our society is doomed because we have the ability to ignore stuff that's right in front of our face and believe stuff that is Mystical and Supernatural.
[00:51:08] Yeah, you know, it's like you were not a rational. We're not a rational being no, unfortunately not. So that's the that the July. Well, that's all for today. I think what do you think? We finally got we got through the show without the cameras, but we got through the show somehow this show will get out there and hopefully people will benefit by what we discussed will be out there in a little while.
[00:51:28] Rob thanks a lot brother. Thank you. I am will talk to everybody tomorrow with more superhuman radio. Thank you for all you are doing a great job about iron. This is going to be one that you want to pass around stay tuned. We'll talk to you then.
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