2559: Four Weird Ways to Build Muscle & More (Listener Live Coaching)
Release Date: 03/22/2025
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
MAPS Bogo Sale: https://mapsbogo.com You just found the world's number one fitness, health, and entertainment podcast. And today, Sal, Adam, and Justin are calling out one of the biggest blind spots in traditional strength training: you can be genuinely strong, genuinely fit, and still tear your hamstring racing your teenage daughter or blow out your pec minor behind a wakeboard boat. That's not bad luck. That's a training problem, and this episode breaks down exactly why it happens and what to do about it. The guys get brutally honest about their own regrets. Sal shares how...
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In this episode the guys break down the best machines for every body part — the legendary Hammer Strength H Squat for legs, the old school Nautilus pullover for back, the Smith machine upright row and Viking press for shoulders, the FreeMotion multi-plane chest fly, the high elbow seated curl machine for biceps, the seated skull crusher machine for triceps, and the hip thrust machine for glutes. They also tell the wild true story of a Soviet doctor who performed his own appendectomy in Antarctica in 1961, get into the trainer-client event they hosted and why it was their most emotional one...
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MAPS BOGO: https://mapsbogo.com Buy one get one free — mix and match any of the top 10 most popular programs (Anabolic, Aesthetic, Performance, 15 Minutes, Anywhere, Symmetry, Starter, Muscle Mommy, Powerlift, 40+) for $157. In this episode the guys break down the exact formula to build the most muscle you've ever built in a 90-day window. They cover dropping all superfluous isolation exercises to focus your energy on compound lifts, training your whole body three days a week with bench, squat and deadlift as the anchors, stopping two reps short of failure, rotating rep ranges every...
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MAPS BOGO: https://mapsbogo.com Buy one get one free — mix and match any of the top 10 most popular programs (Anabolic, Aesthetic, Performance, 15 Minutes, Anywhere, Symmetry, Starter, Muscle Mommy, Powerlift, 40+) for $157.vRecommended combo for this episode: MAPS 40 Plus + MAPS Powerlift In this episode the guys break down 5 things nobody tells men about losing fat after 40. They cover why it genuinely is harder and why the old methods stopped working, why accumulated stress is the real culprit (not just age), why building muscle is the single thing that changes everything for...
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MAPS BOGO SALE Buy Any MAPS Program and Get Another One Free https://www.mapsfitnessproducts.com Your fat loss was working until it stopped. In this episode, Sal, Adam, and Justin break down what causes fat loss plateaus and four strategies that can help get progress moving again without simply cutting calories or adding more cardio. They explain why a short mini bulk or reverse diet can be one of the most effective ways to break a plateau, when adding or reducing cardio can help, how carb cycling can be used as a tool, and why shifting your focus from fat loss to performance can...
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In this episode the guys sit down with Jared Pobre, founder and CEO of Caldera Lab, to tell the full origin story of how he created a new category of skincare for men. Jared shares how moving to Jackson Hole at 40 with a new baby wrecked his skin and led him to use his wife's products — and why that sparked the idea to build a premium natural skincare line specifically formulated for men's thicker, oilier, testosterone-managed skin. He breaks down the product development process including wild harvesting survivor plants from the Wyoming wilderness, running clinical trials before launching,...
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MAPS BOGO: https://mapsbogo.com Buy one get one free — mix and match any of the top 10 most popular programs (Anabolic, Aesthetic, Performance, 15 Minutes, Anywhere, Symmetry, Starter, Muscle Mommy, Powerlift, 40+) for $157. In this episode the guys break down exactly how women over 30 can lose fat and build the body they actually want. They cover why the methods that worked in your 20s are no longer effective, why life stress is actually the biggest enemy (not age), and why building muscle and getting stronger is the single thing that changes everything. They walk through the three...
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MAPS BOGO: https://mapsbogo.com Buy one get one free — mix and match any of the top 10 most popular programs (Anabolic, Aesthetic, Performance, 15 Minutes, Anywhere, Symmetry, Starter, Muscle Mommy, Powerlift, 40+) for $157. In this episode the guys break down 5 tips for bigger arms — full range of motion and why going lighter beats stopping short, always including a stretch exercise like incline curls or overhead tricep extensions, why elbow angles completely change which part of the muscle you target, using compound lifts like close-grip bench and chin-ups as the foundation, and...
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In this episode the guys break down 5 easy ways to fix obesity that are sustainable long term — injecting more movement into your daily life in small ways, avoiding hyper-palatable drug-like processed foods, lifting weights occasionally (even just once or twice a week is enough), connecting through activity with friends and community, and turning off social media an hour before bed. They also discuss the obesity epidemic now hitting Italian kids as processed food arrived, the milkshake study on how belief changes physical response, Adam's internal battle between ego and caution while...
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MAPS BOGO: https://mapsbogo.com Buy one get one free — mix and match any of the top 10 most popular programs (Anabolic, Aesthetic, Performance, 15 Minutes, Anywhere, Symmetry, Starter, Muscle Mommy, Powerlift, 40+) for $157. In this episode the guys break down exactly how strong you should actually be — covering the real strength benchmarks for men and women across bench press, squat, and deadlift from decent to good to great to advanced, why strength is one of the single best predictors of longevity and all-cause mortality, why we are in a muscle weakness epidemic, why mainstream workouts...
info_outlineIn this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin coach three Pump Heads via Zoom.
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Mind Pump Fit Tip: 4 weird ways to build muscle. (2:03)
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GHK-CU and its effect on skin looseness. (22:35)
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Sal’s confessional. (28:32)
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Is this the beginning of the end for CrossFit? (49:53)
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Drinking with or without Zbiotics. (55:52)
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#ListenerLive question #1 – Do body proportions or body type play a significant role in the way someone is able to change their body through resisting training? (57:25)
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#ListenerLive question #2 – Is it possible that consuming a lot of eggs can have a negative effect on sleep? (1:09:25)
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#ListenerLive question #3 – What is your take on myostatin blockers? Is this another fitness fad? (1:20:47)
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How to Use Intra-Set Stretching for the BEST Shoulder Workout | Ben Pakulski
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Use Intra-Set Stretching for the BEST Hamstring Workout | Ben Pakulski
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How to Use Intra-Set Stretching for the BEST Chest Workout | Ben Pakulski
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Regenerative and Protective Actions of the GHK-Cu Peptide in the Light of the New Gene Data
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People Mentioned
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Layne Norton, Ph.D. (@biolayne) Instagram
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Ben Pakulski (@bpakfitness) Instagram
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Bret Contreras PhD (@bretcontreras1) Instagram
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LAUREN FITZ, M.D. (@drlaurenfitz) Instagram
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Dr. Stephen Cabral (@stephencabral) Instagram
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Phil Heath (@philheath) Instagram