2850: Our Biggest Workout Programming Realization in the Past 10 Years
Release Date: 05/04/2026
2921: Your FAT LOSS Stalled ! How Do You Fix it?
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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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The Story Behind the Skincare Brand That Changed What Men Put on Their Face | Mind Pump
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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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2920: How Women Over 30 Can Lose Fat and Build the Body They Actually Want
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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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2919: 5 Tips for Bigger Arms (The Mistakes Most People Make Without Realizing It)
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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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2918: 5 Ways to Fix Obesity That Actually Stick Long Term
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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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2917: How Strong Should You Actually Be? The Numbers Finally Explained
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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...
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2916: 5 Ways to Get Fitter Without Adding a Single Workout
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MAPS BOGO: https://mapsbogo.com Buy one get one free on 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 non-workout shortcuts to fitness gains — post-workout sauna and its 32% improvement in run time to exhaustion in just 3 weeks with competitive runners, visualization producing nearly identical skill gains to physical practice, music and its measurable effect on pain perception and exhaustion, caffeine as the most consistently supported...
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2915: The Best Workout Programs Combos For Any Goal: Muscle, Strength, Fat Loss, and More
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Buy one get one free, pick your combo: One of the most common questions the guys is also one of the simplest: what program should I run next? It matters more than most people think. Stack the wrong two programs back to back and you leave gains on the table. Stack the right two and you buy yourself six months of near zero plateaus, real strength PRs, and a body that keeps changing every week. In this episode, Sal, Adam, and Justin stop making you guess and lay out the definitive MAPS program pairings for every major goal. They cover advanced muscle gain, pure strength, fat loss...
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2914: 5 Rules for Building a Lagging Body Part (The Ones Nobody Tells You)
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In this episode the guys break down the five rules for building a lagging body part — train it longer, train it more often, train it first in the workout, take volume away from the rest of the body to fuel it, and eat in a calorie surplus. They also get into calf insertions and how high versus low insertions determine whether you're built for speed or strength , Adam microdosing GLP-1 for inflammation and knuckle swelling, Justin's KLOW and cognitive peptide stack from Vita Bella. Then they coach live callers submitted through mplivecaller.com. MAPS Upper Lower:...
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2913: 5 Fitness Rules You're Breaking That Are Quietly Killing Your Progress
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In this episode the guys break down five fitness rules that quietly kill your progress — why consistency beats the perfect program every time, the 80/20 rule for intensity that even elite athletes follow, why play is a legitimate and underrated form of training, why walking is the single most underrated activity, and the only two diet rules most people will ever need. They also cover Sal walking into the women's bathroom at a pool club and his wife watching from the food counter as a staff member called it out, Adam's ongoing GLP-1 microdosing experiment and what it's doing to his...
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After 25 years of writing workout programs… Sal, Adam, and Justin are pulling back the curtain on the single biggest breakthrough they've had in over a decade. And it's not what you think. It's not more volume, more intensity, or more time in the gym. It's actually the OPPOSITE. The guys break down why 15 minutes a day of focused strength training is outperforming hour-long sessions for the vast majority of people… and the science and real-world results back it up. You've been told you need to grind in the gym for 45 minutes to an hour to see results. That belief has been quietly sabotaging YOUR consistency, YOUR recovery, and YOUR gains.
Timestamps:0:00 Intro
1:49 The biggest workout programming breakthrough
2:39 What workout programming actually means… exercises, sets, reps, rest, and schedule
5:25 The 15 minute a day protocol
7:30 Why rest IS where the results happen
12:09 Who MAPS 15 is NOT for…
16:20 Sal's 605 pound deadlift PR in his 40s
19:36 Staying consistent when life gets hard
22:40 BOGO deal at maps15bogo.com