Coach Rob Regish
This FB live episode brought a lot of interaction and questions about training, nutrition, supplementation and drugs. The most surprising reactions were when Coach Rob started to talk openly about depression.
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[00:00:00] Hey, welcome back to another episode of superhuman radio today. This is a Facebook live show. So if you have questions, you can post them on Facebook and we will work them into the show today and answer them for you before we get started as you can see coach Rodriguez is on standby. I just want to mention that we still have an amazing sale on Thrive protein.
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[00:01:35] The coupon code is thri V 2 0 1 9 Thrive 2019. If you go to thr IV protein.com, you can take advantage of that and now without further delay his music calling all blueprint Army fall in line. It's time for the blueprint Power Hour with Coach Rodriguez on the Superhuman Radio Network.
[00:02:00] [00:02:03] How you doing, Rob? I'm doing fantastic. I'm actually in the midst of a week off from the weights, but I do go to the gym and I enjoy the cardio and fellowship on my fellow lifters. I think I'm going to the doctor's tomorrow Wednesday, and I think I'm going to be given a green light to do two things to start doing recumbent bike cardio with my boot on and also be cleared to travel because I'm going to go visit Aaron Sangamon in Boca.
[00:02:32] Phone. Oh, wow. Yeah. I'm really looking forward to that trip that really should have occurred a long time ago. And so finally I there was always something standing in my way to get it done. So I'm really excited about that. But yeah, I'm going to start doing cardio very shortly. I need cardio desperately.
[00:02:49] It's the missing component. It's been missing literally for over a year. Right now how about the weights of the you know, when you'll be cleared back for that? I'm training upper body. I'm not doing anything [00:03:00] with lower body. I'm going to ask him if I can start doing lower body type stuff like extensions and leg curls and those types of things.
[00:03:08] But you know, he's letting me train right now. My upper body and my upper body is responding very well. I'm pretty much getting back to where my strength was before. I started taking off just for the surgery good. Wow, that's fantastic. Well, listen, I'm glad you're on the mend. I know what it feels like and hopefully soon enough.
[00:03:31] You'll be back hanging and banging right? Well, how's your. That's a great question. Thank you. My back is much better. I was able to rehab it within a week. Now that involved two to three Chiropractic adjustments, but also wall walks every day and that's part of the reason why I just love that movement.
[00:03:54] It is restorative in nature. So it doesn't take away. I [00:04:00] have every confidence that I rehab my back in half the time. The best part is I got back in the gym and I picked up right where I left off on my program squat program. Yeah, it did. You know, there's a study that was just published and Khalid.
[00:04:16] I'm Louis posted it today about exercise reversing the Aging effect on muscle and I can I can tell you it's true because my upper body. Is great and my lower body feels old, it feels old and creaky and stiff and and sore so I know that this stuff is true. I really do and there's not there's nothing better than training.
[00:04:39] There's nothing better than training. I don't care the injuries aside. That's because I tend to push myself as hard as I can injuries aside. There's nothing better than training and people need to train for their entire lives. That's the by wouldn't you? Yeah, absolutely. I would concur and and in fact it helps to have a short list of [00:05:00] things that you can do when you're injured.
[00:05:03] If nothing else to get back in the gym for you know, the Endorphin hip right? It's a huge part of healing yourself. We have looks like dr. George truly Otto's is listening live from Greece right now. If you are say hello George. And then we have a Johnny Neptune. I don't know if that's really his name.
[00:05:25] But that's definitely his his Facebook name that he uses an avid fan of the show is listening live also. So we're going to get right on to some questions here. This one came from Robert David. He said recently. I had a debate with someone on Facebook about training the chest. I was speaking about the inner chest specialization out of Chess specialization Etc.
[00:05:47] He argued that biomechanically basically says biomechanics basically says that there is no such thing. I guess as specialization for inner and outer the muscle contracts. And therefore you can't Target [00:06:00] specific areas of the chest. However, in my own experience, you can Target certain areas of the chest.
[00:06:05] Is there a theory that supports my position that specialization in certain areas does. Back to work. You know, it's an interesting question from a strictly scientific standpoint with respect to studies. Your friend's opinion is probably a lot more tenable than yours. However, things are always not so cut and dry in the world of bodybuilding so for a long time.
[00:06:34] I was of the opinion that a muscle can get bigger a muscle can get smaller but there is no such thing as shaping. Let's say a muscle via training if there was a reason then go ahead and do whatever work out you need to do and shape your biceps into a triangle. You know, I mean, I mean if if you if you can't do [00:07:00] that then the whole rationale.
[00:07:03] And training for shape I think does not follow. However, I have had experiences that lend themselves well to the fact that that isn't the entire story. So bodybuilding is part science and it's part art in the experience that I had made me understand that it's just science camp explain. It was this for 10 weeks.
[00:07:31] I followed static contraction. Meaning to the letter every exercise every range of motion every, you know, hold every step because there were no right there were no reps. It was by and large one to two maximal holds for 5 seconds on exercises like the leg, press the top range of the bench, press the top range of the deadlift and on and on [00:08:00] and so for these 10 weeks.
[00:08:02] The weight I was wasting were increasing exponentially. I actually ran out of weight because I had a freeway champ in my cellar and I ran out of weight. I had to go buy more because my poundage is were jumping so, you know, it follows at least that's what static contraction was trying to say. It follows that the muscles growth would also be exponential off the.
[00:08:31] The reality is this my joints started killing me like tendons and ligaments to but the worst part was my muscles instead of getting bigger seem to be just more flat. And so I learned a hard lesson there about static holds or not the end-all be-all and only thing that stimulates optimal muscle growth and I think that's what we're talking about for [00:09:00] optimal.
[00:09:00] To grow the muscle needs to be stretched under load there needs to be a contraction. And if you look at the science around actin and myosin, it's almost like a zipper without those two components, you know, you can't zip and therefore cause muscle growth. So I would tell you that both you and your friend have something there the the part that you're feeling is kind of.
[00:09:30] Well to describe is the art of building muscle and all of those. all of those components of muscle growth and convince have not been discovered yet other than by perhaps people in the. So so and I don't know Carl you ready? Yeah, I specifically to his question about the inner training the chest so that you hit different areas you you absolutely can you absolutely can you are [00:10:00] you're absolutely right about this and your friend is wrong and I'll tell you why I say that because for the longest time I had a hard time hitting the center of my chest and getting it to grow the sides of my chest grew fine.
[00:10:13] My PEC thickness was. Fine, but where I was lacking was this little Valley right here, which now I can feel with great depth because I started to do something specifically I started to do pec deck work one hand at a time because one of the things you can't do when you do pec deck work with two hands is crossover.
[00:10:37] Okay, right in order to activate the center most portion of the pectoral muscle you have to go. Bond Middle in fact if you're watching the show right now and you take your hand and put it in that bony area between the two pectoral muscles and you slowly bring your hand in you'll see it's not even activated yet until [00:11:00] you get about here and when you get about here that is when the center because the muscle is pushing pulling from the outside.
[00:11:07] So naturally the last to be activated is the innermost portion when I started doing pec deck work. One hand at a time and and and focusing on that cross over that is when my center of my chest started to grow. So you're absolutely right. You know, I see guys doing partials. They're not activating the entire muscle.
[00:11:31] I see guys who squat doing partials with squats their upper legs are great. But when you get down to where the teardrop is, it just goes away. It disappears if you're not getting deep into that squat, so the argument can be made that. Out actually doing certain things and studying Kinesiology you will end up with a muscle that is not completely developed from side to side and top to bottom.
[00:11:55] Absolutely another reason why you got guys who they want thickness in [00:12:00] the upper. What do they do? They do. They do inclines they do incline pressing, right? They want thickness in the bottom of the chest you do you do dips or you do decline work. No, you're absolutely right. Your friend is wrong and it's not even worth getting into an argument just work your chest the way, you know, where you can feel it hitting all the different areas and let your chest do the talking and when he looked at your goes man your pecs are so proud.
[00:12:26] They're so full say well, that's because I understand how to activate all the. My chest oh, wait a minute. You said that's impossible. That's all. Yeah. That's a great great analogy. And like I said, there's a science and an art I think you're talking about the art and it's there. Dr. George Julio Torres who has a fantastic physique himself says squeeze and stretches are necessary, but it's better between sets or post-workout.
[00:12:53] He's asking the question so, If you if you look at this from the standpoint of some of the things that [00:13:00] Dante trudel has promoted in the dog crap Training Method, he feels that stretches under a load after you're done your training session. If you're hitting chest, then you go and you get a couple heavy dumbbells and you just let them tear your chest apart.
[00:13:17] Just let them sink sink sink. That that actually is a great way to use stretching movements that build muscle and there is science behind it because there's evidence that that type of loaded stretch increases Androgen receptor biosynthesis. So the more Androgen receptors you have in the muscle the greater strength the greatest strength the bigger the muscle gets so there is some evidence about that.
[00:13:42] Let's go to the next. I'm sorry. Go ahead. No. No. No you have something to say I was going to say this when I wrote the original blueprint. I had an entire section unloaded stretching and its importance and basically what you just said, you know, it triggers growth. Yeah, no doubt about it. [00:14:00] The next question comes from Mike pissarro.
[00:14:03] He says I. I'm just going to be honest and say I'm on the gas. I guess he means juice I blast and cruise year round. So don't take much of a break. Should I be taking any regular supplements or are there or are they just a waste of time? Yeah, this is a great question and I'll tell you why people that use drugs.
[00:14:26] Quickly become of the opinion that supplements are a waste of time and write and and let's be honest, you know, you get on the gas. It's a lot more powerful in most cases than creatine could glutamine and whatever other mean you want to throw in there. How are you mean? Idi Amin idiot. Nice fella.
[00:14:51] However, the exact opposite is true and I'll give you a few. Examples number one we know [00:15:00] testosterone is something that belongs in the body and therefore unless it's taken a crazy high dosages its relative. I'll just come out and say it's relatively safe. However, when people start using things like Dianabol.
[00:15:16] Emma draw 50 Buffalo one test these steroids are not recognized by the body and in large part because of their chemical makeup. They do they survive first passed liver metabolism, but at a cost right your liver enzymes are going to go up. Your alkaline phosphatase and bilirubin things like AST and ALT but those are frequently elevated people that lift weights.
[00:15:44] Anyway. Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is you can help your liver by taking various over-the-counter supplements such as in a Seattle system. Certainly to cut I think would be on the top of that [00:16:00] list even something like the are isomer of alpha lipoic acid to help your liver function. I've also spoken to people that get tremendous pumps in the gym from usually some of the stronger ones like Trend to the point.
[00:16:18] It's becomes very difficult for them to move, you know, even a lower back pump by going through your workout and moving the weights from point A to point B and Back Again results in a tremendous pump in that instance. I have heard from them loud and clear that two to four grams of taurine a day.
[00:16:38] And and magnesium certainly bioavailable forms of magnesium like magnesium citrate or aspirate work wonders in preventing those cramps. There are several other nutrients supplements, whatever you want to call them that you can you can use to protect yourself, [00:17:00] but there are also supplements to protect your brain.
[00:17:05] Against some of the deleterious effects of you know, Androgen Usage Now having said that the heart and lungs are really the big worry in anyone who's a long-term steroid user and I think he said look he you know, he stays on all the time blasting proves when that is the case cardio protective nutrients like Believe It or Not Tribulus terrestris can be of benefit and that's because of the furrow.
[00:17:33] What's happening is contained therein? You will also find if you go to Amazon. There's a product called Barlow's fenugreek. It is standardized for 70% furrows to know like acids for Alston oleg's happenings rather and what these molecules do is they dilate arteries which over time. Right can accumulate plaque and it's not a good thing when you know, [00:18:00] but the one test put your HDL good cholesterol, which should be over 40 into the single digits, you know, you need to give yourself a helping hand along those lines.
[00:18:12] I have always maintained and seeing the my own blood work that ephedrine boost your HD else now. It's a double-edged sword in the steroid user because we know some of the more powerful drugs. Lead to weight gain and fluid retention which of course affects your blood pressure. To put a Fed hren caffeine on top of that can really be tempting fate.
[00:18:39] However in the in the man who is controlling his blood pressure ephedrine can only help is HDL levels in sure, you know, you might only get to 25, you know, but answer this question Who Would You Rather Be. The guy at to for the guy at 25 so long [00:19:00] story short over-the-counter nutritional supplements are valuable for the person taking drugs and I would I would go so far as to say they are more valuable to that person because of the performance enhancing drug for painting.
[00:19:16] So the one important mineral that people should be using if they're on Android. Is copper. a lot of people who are on high doses of androgens. And dr. Tulley Otto's probably can chime in on this in written form. They end up having something called cardiomyopathy. It could be because of hemodynamics.
[00:19:42] It also could be from changes in the actual muscle tissue of the heart, but there was a great study done actually was two separate studies. They duplicated the results was done on rodents where they did an aortic clamp to create back [00:20:00] pressure into the heart and they created the the phenomenon of cardiomyopathy which is a weakening of the Chamber of the heart and it starts to blow out like a bubble on a tire tube and then and it leads to heart failure.
[00:20:20] And so what happens is one. They did they order clamp and they supplemented with a placebo in the other group. They did an aortic clamp and they supplemented with the equivalent of one milligram a day of copper in human terms and the rodents that were getting the copper didn't develop cardiomyopathy now, they did another study interestingly enough with copper.
[00:20:48] And this was after the group both had developed cardiomyopathy from the aortic clamp and one group. They supplemented post that they [00:21:00] already had cardiomyopathy one group. They gave copper to one group. They gave the placebo to they sacrifice them and they saw that the fibrotic tissue had disappeared in the group that was getting copper and in the group that was getting a placebo their car.
[00:21:17] Bobby my up the state so that led me to start to think about bodybuilders weightlifters power lifters who are on high doses of androgens. You got to make sure you're getting enough copper in your diet and and it could be coming from red meat that you're eating but it's very easy to supplement with one milligram of copper.
[00:21:36] And if you're going to take copper, you should then supplement with zinc. So just take the minimum daily requirement of zinc and copper and and that way you are going to do. Protect the architecture the structural architecture of the heart and that's a supplement that I think anybody who's using androgens could benefit from quite that that's my opinion.
[00:22:00] [00:22:00] That's a that's a great point. And I would be remiss not to mention vitamin K2 and TMG trimethylglycine trimethylglycine will bring home assisting down which can happen to individuals eating excess protein and K2. Is a hundred micrograms a day will help prevent calcification of the arteries. It is not the same vitamin K K1 that you get eating vegetables.
[00:22:28] You need k 2 4 6 k 2 is what sold, you know, most predominantly and I like in that category. I like now Foods product. So very simply vitamin K2. So what we're going to do right now is we're going to take a quick commercial break those of you. Watching this video on YouTube stay with us. There is no break.
[00:22:50] We're just going to go in and out of the music for you. We'll be right back with more of the blueprint power. Welcome back. So let's give some shout out to a quick to people who are listening [00:23:00] live. Of course. Dr. George tullio toes all the way from Athens Greece. Diego papparella Estelle, yo Johnny Neptune Brian Heron and there's more I can't see them all.
[00:23:13] I have to learn how to use this console little bit better. And if I missed you, I apologize just post something to say shout out and I'll make sure to mention your name. So Diego paparella says liver has a good amount of copper. He's right liver has a good amount of copper Hemi iron B12 liver is.
[00:23:33] Those of you who have missed some of my earlier comments about liverwurst. I get it at Kroger's I get it cut really thick and I call it meat cookies and I love to eat those very often Stell. Yo said you just reminded him about his Amazon K2 or. He put that in. Yeah, good man. Good man, and he also said now has 250 cap the 17 900 [00:24:00] micrograms.
[00:24:00] Is that enough a good dose? Yeah hundred micrograms actually is a good dose of Kyoto. Absolutely. Absolutely. Oh wait and George truly Otto says. Patrick O'Connell used to say don't let your assisting turn into homo. This is not a I'm not taking responsibility for that comment. But since it's out there I was just going to do it.
[00:24:25] Listen. There's one other thing you can do to completely obliterate. Homocysteine and that's take creatine homocysteine is produced in the process where the body produces creatine your body makes its own creatine. And if you supplement with creatine your homocysteine levels will drop to 0 whether you take B12 or methylfolate or any of the other things that help with with the reduction of.
[00:24:55] Homocysteine creatine is Magic for people who want [00:25:00] to get rid of homocysteine levels Diego paparella says taurine has a huge cardio protective properties. In fact that it's been shown to actually improve endurance great stuff Albert Woody is listening and watching live Albert is a big fan of the show sends me lots of good information and messages.
[00:25:19] Thanks for being here, Albert and. Of course my buddy still yellow again there and he's in New York. He's a fellow New Yorker. He's a gentleman. He's a good guy. I so the next question actually comes from Mike Grady. He says I gave German loading pattern number one and your synth agenda. Try like you ask.
[00:25:41] There's no doubt in my mind. I experienced greater gains than I ever have like adding 25 pounds to my Max deadlift and I felt like I could train. Okay, Cynthia. Jian is out of stock at Predator nutrition. I'm not clear where to go after [00:26:00] glp-1. Can you help me out? You know, I want to mention something coach.
[00:26:06] Rob reddish is very underestimated. As a source of not just great information, but a great supplement and he's not launching a new SKU every month, right he focuses on to supplements that work and if you use them they work and German loading pattern number one works. It's been around forever. And so the idea that this guy added 25 pounds to his already Max.
[00:26:33] He's been training for a long time. That's not Placebo folks. He didn't imagine. He added 25 pounds is dead left. He added 25 pounds to his already Max deadlift. So, you know, give Coach Rob the respect he deserves he's may not be as popular as some of these other gurus out there because he doesn't have a full social media staff working for him.
[00:26:55] But if you really want to make gains. Pay attention go to Coach Rob [00:27:00] register.com today. I promise you you'll pick up little tidbits and you'll be stronger by the end of the week. So just wanted to say that. yeah, so in the process answering that question just a quick shout-out to panel Samson tacos over in Greece that since we're talking great man great meal so.
[00:27:21] So we get to the symphony and situation specifically at Predator. It is out of stock. It has been out of stock for for some time. I know Predator is trying to work with. Mass muscle and Sport Science down there up bodybuilding supplements.com to get their order put in but suffice it to say little probably be a while.
[00:27:47] So if you're waiting for yourself engine the best place to get it really the only place together is to go direct to John Drake down a body building supplements.com. [00:28:00] Now, we spoke of German loading pattern one's been around a long time in this case. It added a whopping 25 pounds to make deadlift and I here's the you know that in and of itself is impressive enough.
[00:28:17] Here's the really impressive part. It can do that for you in six workouts. Now when I was a bit younger it was 2012. I was using self the gym I was able to burn through German loading pattern 1 in 14 days. So when less than two weeks, I to added 20 pounds on my squat. It is a lot of weight to add in a very short period of time so.
[00:28:50] I would tell you on the inside. If you're using something urgent, you can get through without loading pattern in two weeks. [00:29:00] Otherwise the safe bet is to train twice a week, which means at the end of three weeks. You will Peak with your additional poundage. Now the question about where to go from here is a very good one because a lot of people will Peak at let's say a 500 pound deadlift.
[00:29:17] Now the question becomes now what. What are you going to do? If you do what most people do you switch the some random program or you just train without setting a new goal? You're going to lose those 25 pounds on your deadlift. What you want to do is to take one week off to give your central nervous system and muscles a break because these programs are very intense and then continue on with a new loading pattern in the case that I.
[00:29:48] Put together a half a dozen of them. That would be German loading pattern to which brings you to a new Peak. It'll add another 5 to 10% in the you know, the [00:30:00] next case is using the Russian strength program generator and then the 10% solution and on and on and on the Curious effect that those loading patterns have is this they will boost not.
[00:30:14] The lift that you were specifically using them for but every other exercise that you perform throughout your workout this a cascading effect. So in other words, you're going to get the rub when you go to perform leverage squats after your heavy. Bless your one arm dumbbell rows your flat dumb or your weighted dips.
[00:30:37] I have seen it over and over and over the central nervous system gets primed and then the next three to five exercises you have in your workout, you know, there are so much stronger which has big implications. So that's what to do. You don't want to lose that you want to continue on and continue to train smart.
[00:31:00] [00:31:00] So George truly Otto's, I didn't know this. He said that he's been reading your articles at anabolic dot-org. I didn't know you write for anabolic dot-org. Yeah, I wrote I wrote several articles for for them. It's been a while, but I thought it was an interesting website and I said, hey, I've got something to contribute so they very generously published my articles there.
[00:31:26] We have to give a shout out to Jason Bay. Is watching live Germany, I guess German volume training is what dr. Tulley office is talking about exhausted me in a month join take heed of German volume training is different than German German loading pattern. Number one, right? Yeah. It's German volume training entirely different.
[00:31:52] The classic German volume training is 10 sets of 10, which is a tremendous load. Your system. Yes, [00:32:00] you're also going to pay a price in terms of cortisol at the end of that work out. So I'm not surprised. Dr. When you say it exhausted you it also exhausted me and just was not a good fit for what I was looking for.
[00:32:12] Peter Rouse is watching live. Hey, yeah, I haven't had a chance to chat with him in a long time. I see him once in a while. He's you know, he's a daddy now he spends a lot. Yeah, he's spending a lot less time with social media and doing more. I'm sure at home as a dad. Good to see you Peter. Nice to see ya.
[00:32:32] Congratulations to yeah, so interestingly, I have been training my upper body. Way, I've been doing an on-off one day on one day off and where I'm just doing push pull Push Pull and so in doing that I'm actually hitting, you know in the course of six days. I'm I'm hitting [00:33:00] body parts over again and I am growing but but but the one thing that I am doing is I'm following coach Wade's undulating training approach.
[00:33:11] I'll come I'll come in and and and when I feel really good, I'll go as heavy as I can and I'll shoot for 12 or less reps in a given birth. And then the next time I hit my back, let's say I'll shoot for 12 to 15 or 12 to even 18 reps. I'll lighten up the weight and then I may even come and do speed work the third time I hit it where I guess go 50% of my max weight, and I just and I'm really not working.
[00:33:41] It's more of like active recovery and then I come back again and I go heavy again and for the first time ever, let's see. So it was yesterday. I trained them off today. So yesterday I train back and I opened up with the Nautilus pullover machine and I do the Nautilus pullover machine [00:34:00] without holding onto the handles.
[00:34:01] I just use my elbows against the pads. That's all I do and I did the whole stack 240 pounds for 5 reps. And that that was my last set I graduated up to 240 pounds and I've never done 240 pounds before on the Nautilus machine and I only did it for 5 reps because I'm not looking to push myself or hurt myself, but I felt strong enough to do it and I have a funny feeling that we can hit a lot of body parts much more frequently.
[00:34:34] If we if we follow some sort of a. Learn where we peek and then we kind of come down and then we peek and then we come down. I think that people could hit their body parts two or three times a week. What do you think about that? I think that's a very pertinent observation and you know, I've heard about that before it's sometimes referred to as you know, following your biorhythms.
[00:34:59] That was a. [00:35:00] A popular program years ago, but listen, you know if you roll into the gym and you are burnt if you are on your way to the gym and you're dreading the workout or at least, you know, the fact that it's the same old thing. You need to shake it up. Now. You can't fit your you also can't train heavy every time everyone's trying to add more weight to the bar because this is progressive resistance training.
[00:35:28] However, when you're not feeling that your strongest it is a great idea fantastic idea to work on speed why the able Force equals mass times acceleration? Everyone's trying to add more mass to the bar in the course of doing so the bar gets slower. Nobody is working on acceleration. So if you can work on both and follow those biorhythms, you're going to be a stronger athlete for it at the end of the day.
[00:35:58] So I want to I want to [00:36:00] comment so dr. Tulley Otto's. I don't know who ddy is. Do. You know who these Y is in the bodybuilding or Fitness community? No, I'm trying to think. I know Vince your. Champion 10 by 10 and then it right. Mr. Charles poliquin also wrote about it and advocated it in his book and I went missing DUI.
[00:36:21] What what what what what George said is d y said that the Nautilus lat machine, I don't I don't know if that's the pole over perfect for isolates. The Latimer's Dorsey arms aren't involved. And there's a hundred eighty degree. Well, the the Nautilus pull over machine. Definitely Dorian Yates. Okay.
[00:36:42] Thank you. Dy2 Dorian Yates. So so the Nautilus pullover machine has a handle that goes across the front of it, right? You put your elbows in the pad and then you hold onto these cambered handles and so many guys are super strong at that [00:37:00] because their arms are working to write, you know their brachial there there.
[00:37:04] Using their arms to help pull it down when you let go of that and I actually keep my hands together like this and then I have to break them apart as my elbows go past my body. If you don't hold on you'll find out how weak you really are in the Nautilus pullover machine very very quickly very clear and and I guess consider yourself fortunate that you actually have a nautilus version of that.
[00:37:30] But here's here's the important thing about a good. Machine pull over unlike every other back movement that you can perform. It takes the biceps out of the movement and every other lifts you do seated cable rows pull-downs chin-ups one arm dumbbell rows. The bicep is the limiting factor. It is much smaller than the back it will fatigue and give out before the back not so with the Nautilus pull over and to [00:38:00] your point Carl using your elbows instead of your hands.
[00:38:04] Completely inept eliminates any bicep developed by step involves activation. Right? Right. And that's the consequence the the back is fine can be trained flat out there. There is a video of me doing these on the supremum radio dotnet blog where I say, this is Mike my way of doing the Nautilus pullovers and I challenge anybody out there who's using Nautilus pull over right now and holding on to that.
[00:38:33] Remember while they're doing them to lighten up dramatically and get the form down and start doing them elbows only because your back will become so much thicker. Your rhomboids will become so much prouder your back development is Will zoom into high speed. If you start doing this, then you're gonna have to go lighter.
[00:38:52] You don't be embarrassed. Like if you're using if you're doing 200-pound pullovers and you're using your arms and your hands to [00:39:00] let go and use your elbows, you may have to cut your weight in half. Really Matt right I kid you not and and Dorian Yates grabbed it reversely so there is a machine in my gym that is a pullover machine, but it's not a nautilus and I do those George it has a has handles.
[00:39:20] It doesn't have pads and I grab the handles underhanded and pull this way, but I still think the Nautilus pullover machine is the king of upper body exercises quite frankly because the. Hold your shoulders it builds Abs if you're doing it, right and you're getting a full extension at the top you feel your abs having to hold your spine from overextending and it's a great machine here for those seeking more information on that Arthur Jones.
[00:39:49] The creator of Nautilus wrote an excellent column in the July 1970 issue of Iron Man. I believe that is still online the title [00:40:00] of that article. The pull over the upper body Squat and he makes an excellent case that it is the upper body squat of upper body movements. So so this is a good question.
[00:40:14] So George says, which is better more effective pull over more effective the Nautilus or dumbbell. It's got to be the Nautilus because the dumbbell. Is using gravity and so there are points where the dumbbell gets to where it's very very light with the novelist. You have extreme resistance all the way through the movement.
[00:40:34] What do you think Rob this in this case? One of the few cases? You're absolutely right for the machine is better than the freeway version and I would also caution people do not get carried away. With the amount of weight you use on the freeway version of this because the one injury, I do have severe arthritis in my right elbow there [00:41:00] on bone on bone that is 100% my fault because I got carried away with the weight on pullovers.
[00:41:09] I actually moved to using a EZ Curl Bar. Instead of a dumbbell so I can add more weight and the weight dropped too fast. I tried reversing it too fast and over the course of the next 10 years or so. It has wasted away to nothing. I have no cartilage in my right elbow. So the only way that you could do a dumbbell pullover.
[00:41:38] And and have the same effect as using a knot. Pull over machine is if you hung upside down if you were completely inverted your head was pointing down your feet with pointing up and you will pulling the weight from the ground up and into your into your chest and even then when the weight becomes [00:42:00] parallel to the ground, you don't have the same resistance on the lats any longer you don't so really this is a situation.
[00:42:10] Where I really believe that the machine outpaces the free weight now Peter Rouse has a comment to make let me just get back up to it here. He says the dumbbell allows greater range of motion. However, most people don't use full range of motion on dumbbell pullovers, but I still would say to you Peter with all respect.
[00:42:32] That there becomes a point in time where gravity which is pushing down and the Arc of the movement is no longer taking advantage of gravity. And that is why I think the pullover machine is better now the problem with the pullover Sheen is. Most people don't get the camber the the pivot of the the machine in the right place for their shoulders and they do [00:43:00] hurt themselves.
[00:43:00] In fact somebody who will never ever use the Nautilus pullover ever again. Because he heard himself is Brooks cubic. He he says that the Nautilus pullover machine is the worst machine that anyone ever invented but that's because he had a bad experience with it. He hurt his shoulders with and that's my point getting used to where you should be.
[00:43:23] You have to start out with very very lightweight you have to style. Yo says my gym. Doesn't have a nautilus back when I went to Powerhouse. I used to love getting the stretch in the upper abs. I know right I do pullovers using a hex bar grabbing the bar on the long ends great stretch on the lats, but definitely plenty of bicep tension exactly.
[00:43:49] Wow. That's that's the first time I ever heard of using a what do you say trap bar? Yeah. No. No. He said he said I I gotta go back. Stretch upper [00:44:00] using a hex bar X bar. Okay. So yeah, because then you can because then you could be neutral grip with it. If using a hex right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean if that is a fantastic idea I'm going to I'm going to steal that try it in the gym today.
[00:44:18] So Peter says you can do that with dumbbell pullover. But doom on a Swiss ball and move your body to maintain tension through the movement. Great Point great. I am also modified the strength curve with dumbbell pullover is by attaching a band. So, you know the right the further you pull over that dumbbell the more tension that there is and so it's kind of a reversal of what it normally is.
[00:44:45] But again bands are very hard on the body. I don't know that combining. It's not with weight is is the best thing to do on that dude Stell, you know, you were right he's talking about using the trash bar to [00:45:00] do a poll Holier. I mean, it's like dude it that's like Dude a pullover with the chassis of an automobile.
[00:45:06] Yeah. That's great. That's very that's great. That's great. That's great. Thinking Stone. Like I said, I'm going to steal it if it's okay. Full credit to you though. Peter wants to give credit where credit is due Jerry Telly developed the method that he was just mentioning. I guess with the Swiss mocha and that's nice.
[00:45:24] You don't see that you don't see that much. You don't see people saying well, this is where I learned it. Everybody wants to make it sound like they invented it very very nice. Very nice and last thing here before we go to break. Vertically or perpendicular lying on the bench. Well, you'd have to be lying perpendicular.
[00:45:42] I mean vertically you'd have to be laying parallel to the the ground right? I have always performed it lying on the bench. Yeah, so now can you get a deeper stretch lying across the bench? Probably so [00:46:00] is it better necessarily? I don't know. That one's better than the other I would say as long as you can perform one of those safely, then you're good to go.
[00:46:11] But like I said, and I'm in full agreement with you. If you don't have a machine petition for one the pullover that machine is that good. Yeah. Absolutely. I we're going to do this. We're going to take one quick commercial break when we come back. We've got a very important discussion that Rob will have as part of the blueprint tip of the day stay tuned.
[00:46:33] We'll be right back. We got some great people watching live today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Patrick Rodgers. Is is watching live right now? And recently he was at Arnold Schwarzenegger is house smoking a cigar with him. I saw it on Facebook. I don't know what the whole details were but he and his wife Corrine with there.
[00:46:53] And also my buddy Dwight Witten is listening live happy about that too. Because Dwight keeps telling [00:47:00] people I'm his personal trainer and I keep telling him don't say that to people man. But anyway, so he is tell yo once again, I I love people who who don't take credit for other people's stuff. He said he read about using the trap bar for a pullover in T Nation in an article in T Nation and he explains here.
[00:47:19] It's not what either of us thought actually if I can get this this comment to appear. So use the outside portion of the bar. The pullover can be done using a standard grip or using the outside frame for handle. So, you know how it's a hexagon. So you using. So think about that big Contraption hanging beneath it you can use plates on it to obviously but he says that you really do have to go light because it's a very challenging movement, especially if you have shoulder problems or impingements.
[00:47:59] Thanks a lot for [00:48:00] offering all that great information style. Yo, thank you I so, let's see where we would just joined by somebody else James Holston is watching live. Hey, When James thanks for being here. So what is the blueprint tip of the day coach? The tip of the day is not going to be an easy one to talk about but we need to talk about it because it's profoundly affecting people's lives.
[00:48:27] I'm talking about depression. The passing of dr. Crisler and the show that you did to pay homage to him. As you say was one of the best shows. I think I've ever heard and I've heard you do several of them for people that have passed and they have likewise been excellent, but. It obviously is a very sad situation for those that don't know.
[00:48:55] Dr. Crisler took his own life. He hung himself. [00:49:00] And it's truly tragic because I've had my own struggles. With depression and there have been unfortunately suicides in my family. So I'm going to talk about some pretty personal things today, but if it helps just one of you it will be worth it. So here goes.
[00:49:32] From the very early age. I sensed that there was something different about me. I could never put my finger on it, but it was there and what I'm talking about is. I was extremely introverted. I was not a very demonstrative or jovial child and I saw that in all of the family pictures, you know, my family [00:50:00] comes from places like Poland and Czechoslovakia.
[00:50:04] And the pictures spoke a thousand words, there were no Smiles just a very stoic serious look and and that's because in large part your whole life was you go to work you come home eat dinner you get up the next day you go to work you come home you dinner and you do that. Until you drop. So I don't know what it is.
[00:50:34] I did not know what it was that was in my DNA quite literally that made me the way that I was but my life was lived and unfortunately sometimes still goes this way. I lived at two speeds idle and full throttle. And while it's true, there was a genetic component in [00:51:00] there lurking Life Experiences.
[00:51:04] Are also responsible for shaping who you are and I'll give you just one example. So I took the SATs, obviously, I think I might you and your high school and I will never forget this as long as I live. My father came home from. I was laying on the couch. And as he reached up and undo this tie, he asked me would you get on the SATs?
[00:51:32] I said 720. You then uttered these? Destructive damaging words you might as well might as well enlist in the Army some nobody's going to watch.
[00:51:52] So that sent me into a very deep state of depression. However. The [00:52:00] pressure never lasted too long because it gave rise. To a manic phase where I was going to move Heaven and Earth to show that person that challenged me in this case my father. That they were wrong. So when they drop me off at College, they left me with this advice.
[00:52:24] You're probably going to flunk out. This will be the most difficult thing you'll ever do but give it a shot and we'll see how it goes. For four years. I never gave my parents migrated. I never showed them a report car is back in the day when they weren't online. The only thing they knew was that miraculously.
[00:52:49] Four years later I was doing so when I finally graduated. I took my final [00:53:00] grades. And I drove out to my parents house. And I asked my father to step out into the driveway. I then stuck that report card under his nose, which showed a final cumulative GPA of 3.6 out of 4.0 and said, what do you think of that boss?
[00:53:26] He still could not utter the words. That I needed to hear. I'm proud of you, son.
[00:53:38] So that's how I'm into another Great Depression.
[00:53:44] And it was never diagnosed until age 40 41 when my world collapse. you know job loss divorce rhabdo hospitalizations divorces in my other divorces in my [00:54:00] family and. I was living with my cousin and his father during part of that divorce and one Saturday morning. I woke up and saw two police officers at the kitchen table.
[00:54:14] They were there to tell his father. That his son. David had hung himself.
[00:54:24] And he further told his father that his truck was at the park where he hung himself if you wanted to go get it. He asked me to go with him. What the police officer failed to tell his father was that they had not yet removed. David's body. So when we got there, they were still removing it. And you can just imagine what the scene was with his father.
[00:54:57] I have had the experience then [00:55:00] of suicide in my family David was depressed from endlessly. So I never heard him here. Say two words and it was compounded with alcohol. Okay? But when we got home with this truck. I walked into the kitchen and surrounding the table. Were his mother his father his grandmother.
[00:55:27] His brothers and sisters and his children. And for anyone thinking that the pain ends when you commit suicide, let me assure you it's only beginning. the people at that table including me. we're obviously hurt angry and traumatized. like what was going on in to this day the things that were said.
[00:55:58] around that table. [00:56:00] About whose fault it was. have torn a family apart.
[00:56:08] so what I'm telling you. Is that depression is real? It's something that even if you suspect that you have it. I would highly encourage you to go and get it checked out because. It wasn't diagnosed in me until age 40 41 One Life Experiences. Really brought it out one final note. I have never been suicidal in my life except.
[00:56:42] when they put me on Lexapro. Within days of taking Lexapro every problem I had was magnified to the nth degree. and. I sent a text to my dad that [00:57:00] he could come tomorrow to get me but I wasn't waking up. I can only imagine what that did to my father was. 70 years old at the time. Long story short.
[00:57:16] if you're depressed. I want you to get help it is not a sign of weakness to reach out and get help. to hang on for one more day because as I said to you in past episodes. I'm doing better now than I ever have. I have a wonderful wife and a Wonderful Life. But I just couldn't see that when I thought about ending it.
[00:57:48] So if you're depressed, I want you to make her suicidal. I want you to make a phone call. the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline there [00:58:00] at. Two seven three. eight two five five. if you would just hang on for one more day and not do to your family. What happened in mine? It will make all the difference if it saves this saves just one person your problems are not as bad as they seem to know their magnified when you're depressed.
[00:58:31] and. You know, Tim, I see your note there. And I want you to call that line. You say you don't have anyone in your life. Listen, boss you do. My phone number is eight six. Oh, seven five three zero three seven three if you need to talk. Feel free to call me.
[00:59:00] [00:59:01] The funny thing is that we're more connected than ever right like right now look at this, right? I mean we have people from all over the globe watching us listening to us interacting with us. But people have never felt more alone suicide rates are up. I just talked about this yesterday when I was in the sauna after my training suicide rates are going through the roof people are killing themselves left and right today.
[00:59:28] And and so we I know for sure that social media has a benefit. Because Tim, ohms can actually make that comment here and Reach people, right? But the reality is that so. To Media also is contributing to this level of Disconnect. Yeah, and it's really very very sad. I think it's very important to what you said that you never felt suicidal until you started taking an SSR.
[01:00:00] [01:00:00] Ssris are not the answer for depression. They're not they absolutely are not. In fact people don't become Mass murderers or commit suicide generally until they're on an SSRI, right? And so don't go to the doctor. Find people who have an interest in your well-being and tell them about how depressed you are.
[01:00:28] But then it's up to you to start to take some steps. What is it that you feel like you are lacking in your life in your case. It was recognition. It was recognition. Your dad didn't want to give you the recognition of your achievements and you put so. You invested so much meaning into him recognizing your achievements that by not getting them that made you sad so from and that's why if you [01:01:00] are one of those people who feels that you are not getting what you need from the people in your life currently find other people.
[01:01:09] We have you know, this how many billions of people on this planet you can spit and hit 50 people. You don't know right now. You know take out Tim Yeah, Tim also made a comment. I don't have any buddy in my life right now. But what does that really mean? What does that really mean? Does he want someone to love?
[01:01:29] Does he want of such a companion or does he want a buddy to train with because that's a very broad statement. I'm going to assume it's a significant other but let me tell you this temp the keywords in that phrase. I don't have anybody in my life right now are the words right now. Okay, there is there there's the entire world.
[01:01:57] Of women out there that I'm [01:02:00] sure or other people out there. That would I'm sure. I would be excited to meet you and talk to you and I tell you that because. When I was at my lowest point I was living in a one-bedroom apartment. And when I say one bedroom, there was a bed and three feet on this side and three feet on that side.
[01:02:22] Okay, that was it in California. That's called a luxury studio apartment. Hahaha, but you know other than my son. I too had nobody in my life and I kept thinking to myself my God, who's who's gonna want me, you know, I was that low. It's like, you know who would want to sign on to this, but I will tell you this.
[01:02:48] God sent the person to me that I needed and Carl you told me this when I was going through my divorce and I didn't believe it at the time but you said on the other end of [01:03:00] this thing is a special person waiting for you. That's going to be perfect for you. And it's going to make your life fantastic and you were absolutely 100% right?
[01:03:14] She was a local girl Two Towns away. We met on an online dating site, but at the precise time she reached out and said why don't we go out tonight? And I said, no it's kind of cold out. I don't want to go and she said we live Two Towns away you have no. It's not to meet me. And so I tell you man.
[01:03:36] I'm sure glad I went out that night because I married that woman and she makes me the happiest man on Earth and you know, and that's what look George truly Otto says I struggled with depression since I was in high school training was a window to relief stress and negative feelings. And this is very very accurate training raises the hormones that make you feel [01:04:00] good.
[01:04:00] So the first step is to start. Big and Tim, I know you probably do train but there's something else is a little Nuance here in some of the things that coach Rob has been saying and that is suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem and and when you think about it, you know. You're looking at the things in your life right now as this is the best it's going to get how do you know that how do you know?
[01:04:33] This is the best your life is going to get how do you know that the people that are in your life right now who are not supporting? You aren't going to be replaced by people. Who will you you. At least a 50-50 chance that you're wrong at least 350 and that's way too big of a chance to go. I'm going to end it all look.
[01:04:58] There isn't a person on this planet [01:05:00] who hasn't been in a bind in a situation where they thought to themselves. The easiest thing for me to do would be to take my own life. Right. There's many men commit suicide more often than women. And that's because men bear a lot of responsibility financial responsibility.
[01:05:22] They're viewed as their value is based on what they earn. And a lot of guys don't feel like they're worth anything because they feel like they're not earning anything first thing. You got to eliminate that that's BS. Okay, where you are in your life right now is no representation of where you going to be in one year five years ten years and at least 50/50.
[01:05:46] I'm right. Yeah. So I mean it was a hive it would boost a hundred percent. I tell you I would have killed myself to and in certain instances in my life, but I always. But that you know, what something good could happen [01:06:00] tomorrow. Yeah, you know, so if you're standing right now at the edge of the Abyss I would tell you nobody knows.
[01:06:09] How this movie ends. Only the man upstairs you need to just keep hanging on. To get the end of the movie because between now and then trust me some wonderful things are going to happen. Yeah, it might not be it. You might not see it right away. But on God's time wonderful things are going to happen.
[01:06:30] There's an actress that was telling a story recently on a TV show and she mentioned that her mom actually was in the Indus tariffs and was going to get an abortion. Yeah, I mean look life is dynamic it. Now and it may suck again 10 years from now, but in between there, there's going to be good things.
[01:06:50] So you just have to hold on you have to hold on because it will be good Peter. Ralph says online contacts don't give you the oxytocin release people [01:07:00] need real human contact. This is true. So I did a show seven eight years ago that showed that people who hug. eight times a day are happier than people who don't even if they.
[01:07:15] Same crappy life experiences when you hug another human being your body releases oxytocin as Peter is talking about oxytocin makes you feel like a complete human being it gives you hope it relaxes you. It dilates blood vessels. It does all sorts of good things, you know, so and if you're saying to me right now Tim.
[01:07:39] Nobody loves me. Nobody wants to be near me. That's not true. That's only true. If you're standing where you're standing get out move out move around if the people aren't in your life that you want then move out of where you are and go find them. Yeah, and you know, that's exactly what I did and [01:08:00] like I said God will put people in your path.
[01:08:04] To to do wonderful things. You can only dream about right now. Let me give you that telephone number one more time. It's 1-800-273-8255 these people in addition to listening to you. There is real help in real. Hope meaning they can put you in contact with local resources to help you alleviate.
[01:08:32] Depression and is someone who is now far removed from those days when I was suicidal I can tell you that the terrible things that were going through my mind. A lot of them weren't real and even the problems. I did have they're fixable. They're not going to last forever. You know, you need to understand if that's going on in your brain.
[01:08:58] It's not real. [01:09:00] It's not real Tim. Posted Tim posted something. I need clarification Tim. The keyword is lost to cancer. Did you lose someone to cancel or you battling cancer be clear on that one Tony pekus a buddy of mine from California said thank you for this topic. You know, there are a lot of people who are suffering in silence out there you and I are people like that.
[01:09:24] There are a lot of people who are just suffering in silence out. They don't have to you know, what is there's nothing to be ashamed about being depressed. It's not doesn't mean that there's your brain isn't working right there are legitimate reasons to be depressed lose a job lose a marriage lose a child, you know lose a house someone breaks into your car and steal something.
[01:09:47] You just can't afford to replace that makes you sad that's a legitimate feeling and it's and it's just as appropriate not to take drugs. For that feeling as if you're in a funny movie and [01:10:00] laughing really hard and somebody goes. Oh my God, you're laughing so hard. You need a drug. You're laughing too hard.
[01:10:04] No, we need to understand that pain is growth provoking. pain actually catapult you into new places in life and depression is. At different points in our lives. I'm waiting for Tim. Ohms to to finish the statement. The keyword is lost to cancer. I want to understand what exactly that means. Let's say, he's Estelle.
[01:10:28] Yo, thank you for sharing robbed while this is a lot. I'm going to put this up there and it's going to cover the screen. Strong man moves intense and emotions gasping. Yeah, this is a lot to read and I want to read the whole thing. I'm going to leave it up there for everybody to read I'm looking for Tim.
[01:10:43] Ohms to finish his. Meant here.
[01:10:50] remember to look at this. This is this is from George truly Otto's. Remember the case of dr. Jack Kevorkian, dr. Death who was convicted 5 years in [01:11:00] jail to helping euthanize terminally ill patients. Yeah, so, you know, this is really an interesting discussion. We probably need to start doing a show just about depression.
[01:11:13] I got to tell you something. I didn't realize you know when you're depressed. You just think it's you right when you're dealing with depression. You think it's you but meanwhile you're coming into contact with 50% of the people in your life probably who feel the same way and no one's talking about it.
[01:11:28] Everybody feels alone. It's really something it's really really saying, you know, I want to thank all the listeners for their kind comments. It's not an easy topic to talk about but I want people to know it doesn't make you a weak person to ask for help. It's a hard thing to do when you're a guy right?
[01:11:51] We're all raised to be men and not show emotions, but. You need to get it taken care of [01:12:00] and realize it's not really as bad as you think that it's just not real and here's the funny thing a lot of us are sitting back and we're thinking to ourselves. So and so's got a great life. He's got a great beautiful girlfriend.
[01:12:12] He makes a bunch of money. I don't have any of that sort of stuff. Well, let me let me tell you something. We lost dr. John Chrysler to suicide last week. He had a thriving practice. He had a beautiful fiance. He was well respected for the things that he had done in male hormone replacement therapy.
[01:12:33] He was just invited to go spy on a speaking tour with dr. Mark Gordon to talk about testosterones effects on on traumatic brain injury here is a guy who by all accounts you when you look at his life from outside you go man. This guy's got it all. You know, he had a beautiful car. He lived in a beautiful home in Michigan.
[01:12:55] He was he was loved he was funny. He was gregarious. He was handsome. [01:13:00] He had a beautiful fiance. He had a thriving business. He had opportunities coming to him and yet they find him hanging in his garage. I'm telling you we have people out there who were so depressed and they're just not understanding that it's like it's like a a you got.
[01:13:21] Hang on for one more day. Just hang on for one more day because everything perspective wise can change on a dime on a dime but it takes work. You've got to be honest and you've got to search your soul and say what is it that I am lacking in my life. That makes me feel like I don't have the strength to go on any longer that's takes work.
[01:13:44] You have to be honest with yourself and it could be. That in your mind you think oh, I'm being so petty like my father didn't like me. My mother didn't treat me. Nice. No. No, there are no Petty reasons if that's the core if that's the [01:14:00] crystal if that's the piece of sand in the Oyster. That's that's creating the Pearl you have to own up to it.
[01:14:05] You have to address it. And then sometimes when you address you think gee how silly I am. Let me move past this and you can get out of your depression. Now there are forms of depression that do have to. I dressed because of inflammation because of metabolic disorders and exercise lack of activity and exercise lack of sunlight.
[01:14:27] But those are things you can fix to those are all easier to fix than the the destruction that you will leave by killing yourself. In all the people who do love you, but aren't coming out and telling you on a day-in and day-out basis that you will hurt them and I and and and some people say suicide is a passive aggressive move to hurt other people.
[01:14:50] I don't believe that anymore. I used to I used to but I don't think so anymore. I think people run out of energy to move forward. They just see like [01:15:00] it's not going to change. It's like being stuck in a bear trap and keeping yourself alive everyday just to suffer the pain. Bear trap who wants to do that who wants to do that?
[01:15:11] Yeah, it's an unfortunate thing. A lot of people feel that they run the race and there's nothing left. There's nothing left to give and I will tell you now after having gone through the experience after having a suicide in my. And other things that I can't talk about. you need to hang in for one more day my life.
[01:15:42] I thought my life was over. I thought I because of the divorce. I ruined my son's life. None of that is true. You need to hang in for one more day. None of us knows how this movie ends. You need to hang in for the ending. [01:16:00] And any any Friedman Pearson just posted exactly what is speaking to what I said a second ago.
[01:16:07] There are things that may have happened to you a long time ago. And you just keep them bottled up inside you. Yeah, and it's time to get those things out say I'm get it over with you know what it's like it's like Eminem at the end of the movie 8 Mile where he's got a rap with this guy. He's got to compete with this guy and he knows this guy's going to talk about the fact that Eminem is trailer trash his mother's a drug addict.
[01:16:29] These things so what does he do he comes out and he says them he says I'm trailer trash. My mother sleeps around my mother's a drug addict and then he looked at the guy and says, like look what can you fit what he doesn't say the words but he looks at him and he drops the mic like now, what could you possibly say that's going to offend me after I just said everything that you could possibly say you disarm the situation when you speak about it when you when you address it when.
[01:16:59] Feel [01:17:00] it you disarm it and that's why it's important to address it. What is cssa? What is CSA Annie and he would have CSA. I don't know what that is. She put CSA up and I'm not sure what that acronym is. But we're going to have shaved show pretty soon. She made a great point about depression in men is usually the result of things unspoken.
[01:17:22] I know what it's like to keep things bottled in I did it for. 40 years.
[01:17:32] It was only after I lost everything I was able to actually talk about it and you know to some extent I'll be dealing with it the rest of my life and that's okay because I know now. In this is the bottom line. That which does not kill you makes you stronger. and. [01:18:00] Given everything that happened to me.
[01:18:02] They couldn't hold me down for the count brother and Tim if you're listening I need, you know, I need you to look at it like that. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger because it will because it will and he said CSA stands for childhood sexual abuse and the reality. Is that a lot of men have suffered.
[01:18:24] Childhood sexual abuse they keep it bottled up inside them because they're afraid that if they say something that they will be seen as less than men and it eats away at their soul over time. I know what she's talking about. This is true and I have stories that I could talk about. I don't want to get into it during this this this show but it's very very true a lot of a lot of men carry the scar of that and it eats away at them in the older and older they get it becomes worse and.
[01:18:53] Yeah, and you know what one of the thing I want other point I want to make. forgiveness [01:19:00] is very powerful thing. Because it wasn't until I forgave my father. For what was left unsaid that I was able to move forward. So consider the power of forgiveness consider people as they are. And no this whatever issue you have with them.
[01:19:27] It's more about them and less about you. Forgiveness is a very powerful healing tool use. That's it for today folks. I got news for you. I think we're going to start a new podcast. I think the world needs it and I think we're going to go just simply call it the depression show. And we're going to come on and the air we're going to share stories and people because I have a feeling that if people come on and share their pain.
[01:19:59] It [01:20:00] will disarm and dispute diffuse the pain I really do. Yeah. Yeah, that's a great idea. That's it for today. By the way. I'm doing Dave Palumbo show today at 3 o'clock taping an interview with him on LL 3 7 we're having amazing. I can't tell you the number of people who have messaged me and said they're going to give LL 3 7 a try with their child on the Spectrum their autistic child.
[01:20:25] I've got I'm going to have some very exciting stuff to report. I feel in the next month or so and nobody's talking about this, but me here at superhuman radio so I coach Rob. Thanks for all the hard work brother. Thank you. Okay, and we'll see everybody tomorrow tomorrow is third of tomorrow's Wednesday.
[01:20:43] I think we have a good show tomorrow. Hope so. We'll see you then.
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