Training THIS Way Will MAXIMIZE Strength Gains, Here's HOW | Mind Pump 1843

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00:57 Mind Pump Fit Tip: Sometimes the best workout for muscle and strength are HEAVY singles and doubles.
14:40 How kids are so in tune with things.
19:45 Every once in a while, your genetics come out.
25:18 When studies confirm old wisdom.
33:15 Grass-fed versus grain-fed beef and why Butcher Box is so beneficial.
36:21 Is American cheese real cheese?
38:32 Quah question #1 - What are your guys' thoughts on the keto diet for muscle growth?
46:19 Quah question #2 - How do you get yourself back into lifting when depression has taken over?
51:24 Quah question #3 - I’m 6 weeks into my summer cut, and I just hit a squat PR. How does this happen?
54:32 Quah question #4 - What still surprises you guys about each other even after all these years of knowing each other so well and working together?
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[@JCInShape]

It's amazing that this has probably been one of the best podcasts regarding parenting! We put too much emphasis on telling our kids what to think, instead of teaching them HOW to think! That's why we have a country that has potentially half of its population believing what its mainstream media tells them! Well done, guys! Let's bring questioning things and critical thinking back to our children, and therefore our world

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Becoming a grandma next month and so glad I found you guys! I'm totally on board and lifting for the first tome ever. My goal: grandbaby is going to have the strongest gma of any of their friends 😀

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Getting really good at deadlifts will change your life and separate you from your peers by miles. My dad is 57, not on TRT, and he can deadlift 450 lbs. All his friends have sore (weak) backs and he moves around like a 25 year old.

[@garagegymgranny1965]

I am a gran also and I love to lift.

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Keep it up Cool Granny!

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You’re awesome stick to it

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We love you, grandma. KZbin family got your back!

[@troyharrington7043]

Training for strength instead of aesthetics is what improved my aesthetics the most. Great episode guys! Keep spreading the good word!

[@MartinJohnsonIII]

How come i’m very interested

[@muzzammil4869]

whats the difference between both type of training?

[@turo302]

Probably just means you werent getting close enough to failure when “training for aesthetics”

[@MartinJohnsonIII]

@@turo302 But would you agree that low reps heavier weight builds denser muscle?

[@troyharrington7043]

@@turo302 no I have never had an issue going to failure or anything I think it was just the difference in stimulus using heavier weights and what not but good point!

[@joshhoobler5769]

"everybody's so growth minded that what I expect now is the unexpected" -- that gave me goosebumps it was so freaking inspiring

[@jacobclausen5656]

That part where you guys talked about each other really made me quite emotional. Such a fucking inspiration to see all you guys appreciate each other and put into words what the others do best. This really really hit home for me for some reason, and I feel like I know you guys better now for it. Thanks for being vulnerable and showing people this side of yourselves. Amazing podcast once again, guys

[@kennethemerson5548]

Chad Waterbury has been preaching this for years. His 2008 book Huge In A Hurry is based upon 85% triples. The key is to do them in 12 seconds or less to recruit type II and type II x muscle fibers right of the bat. He calls this the size principle. This stuff works. Most Oly lifters like myself do a good chunk of training based around triples, doubles and singles. I do a lot of heavy triples with squats, pull variations and press variations as I get close to competition. It makes for pretty solid muscles. The strength gains are even more impressive when used in a step loading scheme.

[@hahsvehsghevsusgw8894]

What do you mean by triples, doubles and singles

[@garagegymgranny1965]

The genuine admiration you have for each other is very heartwarming. You are setting a great example for your children and their future interactions with friends and coworkers.

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A man with a high degree of self value will praise and compliment other men. Nice touch fellas.

[@Jayjayg1223]

This right here is exactly what I need. I feel like I’ve hit a standstill in my strength training

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The empathy and emotional intelligence of you guys is monumental ! You guys don’t allow your pride or ego to stand in the way of anything I commend that .

[@AngCJ-18444]

Sal, my daughter did something similar. She said she was talking to her little sister who looks like her, said a name when she was going to come, that she was waiting for me to decide and that she said 'I just have to decide, it's my choice to open that door'. Then, she just randomly goes back to colouring in like it was nothing. We havent been talking about having another child at all. I think kids do pick up stuff because although we are all intuitive, as we grow up we are conditioned to ignore and dismiss this extra perception and move away from trusting self.

[@rvbbve]

I’ve been putting my friends onto your podcast and all of our progress and outlooks on fitness is exploding! Mental health and mobility are my main focus and the strength and muscle gains just keep following. Couldn’t thank you guys enough for resparking my love for fitness!

[@davidmurray319]

Love hearing Justin talk about verbal fluency! Reading teacher here!

[@OctoberOmicron]

So what I gathered concerning heavy singles, doubles and triples, which is all covered in first 13.5 minutes: 1. Use moderate weight, never your max, but more than you'd use with a 5x5 program. 2. Two to three minutes rest between sets. 3. Three to four exercises, five to eight sets each, "less exercises, more sets." 4. Four to six week cycle. The unspoken implication is that this applies to big compound movements, especially if you consider total time for workout. Would love to hear any suggestions on what exercises you'd all select! I'm considering for my next rotation doing this with squats, deadlifts, overhead press, bench press, and rotating in RDLs and maybe barbell rows. Should I even bother with things like barbell curls or close grip bench?

[@blaineandkatey]

I've been obsessed with you guys and just binge watching every episode from the past few months! You guys are a wealth of knowledge, thanks always ❤️

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[@jameslarsen1086]

I think "not surprised but consistently impressed" also reflects the mindpump community's collective response to this content. Tuned in for fitness and lifestyle advice, received a masterclass in team dynamics. Not surprised but thoroughly impressed.

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[@evec2022]

I'm the petite 105lb girl doing triples, doubles and singles thanks to you guys!

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I just loved hearing your perspectives on each other 💗it was so genuine and insightful. Love this crew!! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

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[@markislivingdeliberately]

Seventh day Adventist checking in from loma Linda! Absolutely right. There’s a lot to it including genetics, lack of alcohol/drugs, movement, taking a day off from work and stress (sabbath on Saturday not allowed to do much but rest and commune with god/nature/fellowship with community). Now I don’t practice, but adventists live very healthy lives, the diet is probably near the least healthy thing we do haha. But most of us eat meat and drink caffeine at this point and many drink. So may not be a blue zone forever haha. But very tight knit community, that’s probably a large factor in and of itself.

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Really glad I found your podcast/youtube channel. I have acquired much more knowledge around my fitness and have been making incredible gains in both aesthetics and strength since listening. Thank you for everything you do!

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Hearing you guys compliment each other and talk about the mechanics of it all was beautiful

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Still the best fitness channel around. Love you guys and I hope you all realize how real you guys are. You guys just seem like a good group of dudes and are seriously the first fitness “KZbinrs” maybe even the first KZbinrs I’ve ever watched and trusted the content like I do. Keep up the good work 💪🏻

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Listening to the four of you speak about each other with this big, goofy grin on my face! The love and respect you have for one another always shows, but his segment is absolutely wonderful!

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Amazing content guys, I find that there is always at least 2-3 gems within your videos that I did not know about. With question #2, you guys did a great job at answering what could help with motivation to workout when depressed, and you can definitely hear the experience behind the responses. Depression sucks, it makes you feel worthless, hopeless or helpless, and even unloveable at times. I hope the individual who asked that question can find the help needed and that this response can be a start to it. I’m a mental health therapist, and something that I have found that works great for motivation related to depression is (trying an experiment). Rate what you “think” the workout will feel like (self rate scale 1-10, 1 being it’s going to suck and 10 it will be amazing), go workout just to test the experiment and see if your thoughts were true (you’ll find more often than not, that thoughts are just opinions, not facts) and at the end, rate the workout for how it “actually” felt, it’s common to find that the rated number is higher than originally expected. As the guys put it, going through the motions and doing what you can (without high expectations) will not only be more than doing nothing, but it will help with the release of endorphins and dopamine, two chemical that help our brain feel great, and potentially create some balance.

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You could have not recorded anything else in this podcast the love and respect you guys share with each at the 1 hr mark speaks volumes to your mateship Fucking awesome well said

[@michaelharris8534]

Big believer in this: Think you don't feel like it today. Whatever it is, do it for 10-15 minutes. After that, if you still don't "feel" like it, you should stop. Many times you'll keep going well after getting over that first hurdle or two.

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I started watching you guys recently and you guys changed my mindset , I bought the resistance program from you guys, I feel way better! Going to finish this program then thinking on buying a aesthetic bundle type of program

[@carlosdmc5395]

Thank you again for great information to improve our training and to develop new workout habits. Had never heard of that form of training to increase strength.

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Morning mind pump brothers!! Trigger sessions are the nuts!! Really notice their benefit even if I have to drag myself kicking and screaming to do them. Have a blessed day! 💪🏼👊🏼🙏🏼

[@iconnick7]

I needed this episode. Great timing

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Hope i didnt miss the 24hr window. I love the podcast I’ve learned so much after 5 years of lifting. Makes me feel like a newbie

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Just started this and eating more and man does it work. Pump work for the rest.

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How can I add more likes? The information you guys produce is priceless. You have tought me that there is no right or wrong way to one thing, but it is always it depends.

[@lisaday1143]

Totally resonate with the strength versus high rep, challenging the mindset with a different experience is definitely rewarding!

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Recently new subscriber and I’m glad I’ve come across this channel. Just getting back into exercising and these videos have been fun, informational and refreshing. My view points were already in the same line of much of what’s said. Back in September I began working over night 40-60 hours a week. I would love to hear what you gents have to say about nutrition, exercise, energy, sleep, scheduling and anything else I can’t think of atm. Thank you!

[@chendersondesoto]

I sincerely thank you for the information you present. I am 54, former D1 football player. Your show has been invaluable and people can't believe my age. I am making other changes, taking a break from drinking, and trying to get more sleep. I love learning and the older I get, the more I know I don't know. Going to try the singles and doubles. Just know you all are appreciated.

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So glad I found you guys. Been hooked ever since. I need the symmetry program!

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Adam keeps it trill.😎

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My boysss! Thanks for the great advice! I just started physical therapy for my broken humerus! That maps symmetry sounds like an amazing program to balance out my upper body since the injury! Again thanks for the life changing advice!

[@reggiedavis4961]

Man I’ve been trying to get symmetrical ever since the first weight I lifted. You guys rock for even focusing on that because I’ haven’t heard of a program focused on that since I got into this industry 4 years ago

[@noeditbookreviews]

I loved the stuff on letting the child's mind experience new things. It reminded of a good book called "Brain Rules" by John Medina. Good stuff.

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Very nice evaluation of your team, Adam! 💜

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I have been a follower of the pod since 2017 and have lately been onto the KZbin channel while I'm at work. I cant thank you guys enough for the work you do I might have started listening when I'm 30 but I think I'm strongest I have ever been due to your programs and advice on how to structure things and focus on things I'm coming out of a strength phase and thinking about doing a 5x5 phase for 2 weeks before I move over hypertrophy training and will look to run anabolic in September I always run anabolic to start football season reminds me of training of football thanks for all you guys do as one of your many fans cant get enough of you guys!!

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Came across this channel by fluke, absolutely love it , all this guys are very endearing

[@sunofwar]

Awesome podcast awesome guys. And always learn. Listen almost every day and loving it. 👍👍❤️💪💪💪💪

[@MrJasonz93]

Shout to Doug and Justin they are definitely the salt and pepper that makes the food pop

[@PeakHealthAndPerformance]

Such a great episode

[@ohheyhowyoudoin9635]

I've been splitting my workouts for a while now between 5x5 push, 5x5 pull/legs

[@XerophSerenade]

Doug. You're doing a great job!

[@jc0609]

This is really interesting. I love lifting heavy but didn’t know about the potential benefits. This is really great. Thanks

[@arishali9587]

What a timing. I have been wondering how I am hitting PR’s on deficit. Also I do single and doubles on heavy and 4 to 5 raps on moderate heavy. Thank you guys. The amount good quality information you guys putting out for free is unreal. I lost 45 lbs of fat mostly. Just because of people like you guys.

[@mauricioadaniya5283]

Could you potentially mix this with high-rep exercises? Like, going for the 1-2 very heavy exercise in a dumbbell shoulder press but including a high rep-light weight with a lateral raise in the same routine?

[@davidmurray319]

That so so heartwarming at the end 😭

[@adamlimbach6756]

The last question was awesome! Let’s get Doug more involved in the public eye of this!

[@stormrhode2330]

Adam was totally fishing for compliments at the end. Haha I know you guys don't really advocate it, but I like training in all rep ranges and just about all styles and not so much into phasing. I just like being well-rounded, capable, fit, and overall healthy and feeling good. Aesthetics generally seem to follow and really good aesthetics never seem all that far away. And workouts seldom get tedious.

[@MSAli86]

Cant wait to try this method of training

[@mannohana]

BEEFCAKE Goals! I’m definitely reimplementing this style of training. A BIG thanks Mindpump Crew for continually dropping gems 👍🏽. Certainly the best health and fitness channel on KZbin!!

[@a.ellahi3745]

I'm going put this in to my regime.. ✌🏽

[@milootis1034]

I definitely love lifting moderately heavy with low reps in the last year or so. I decided to switch to 15-20 rep sets for the next month or so to see how my body reacts. This episode is tempting me to switch to 1-2 rep sets but I’m going to stay the course lol. 1-2 rep sets coming this summer though 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

[@samuelmunoz7027]

update?

[@Locke19901]

The argument for the keto diet they are missing is that any amount of carbs affects the liver and if you are already insulin resistant, it's not going to be great for you.

[@malvon74]

I will start this today.

[@mayrakennedy6200]

I’m obsessed with your podcast! I like the response to the all or nothing, or one “diet” is the best…. we should all do what works for us. Also, something may work really good right now but now 6 months from now. Or the focus may change into maybe not losing weight but building strength then the “diet” may have to change some… Thank you for putting out the word. Keep education us to be better in fitness and health 🙏😇 amen

[@shakur144]

Great job guys

[@stolts34]

44:30 mark. Adam is truly passionate about diets. He got intense there. Totally agree with him, by the way.

[@rickcastrejon6454]

Going to try this type of workout. That's for book reference.

[@dee_ztivuolibra04]

I so agree that we all should be eating according to our genetics. I have been reading and following Paul Cheks metabolic typing technique. No more bloating and I am better able to identify what food sensitivities I have.

[@user-cf4jj8gb8p]

gonna try it!

[@samtimmistroy]

MAPS Symmetry would be awesome, my pecs are very asymmetrical. I’m starting phase 2 of SPLIT today, been loving it so far!

[@lancebrackin2874]

Love this podcast

[@kniv3sap1]

Great content as always.

[@SimpleeCece]

Would this training method be good to go into after finishing maps anabolic? I’m coming into phase 3 and was wondering if I should go right into maps performance or try this method out before that. Love your show!

[@kareemlawrence8396]

A new fan fore life!!!!

[@sangmachng-ractual1655]

Great podcast episode;

[@Erwin_Fit]

Man that last question was one of the best lifting session I've ever seen. Much respect for all of you. 💪

[@jamesweldon6374]

25 year old hardgainer super consistent in the gym for over a year now and learning tons from you guys but no matter how hard I try to address and fix my imbalances between my right and left side I make slight progress but I just can't seem to find the root cause. Been dying to start Anabolic but then tore my ACL and got surgery which only further contributed to imbalance between left and right. Super noticable when I bench, row, and lateral shoulder raise especially, which is why I am hesitant on progressing too much on my big lifts because I cant help but feel like im building on an uneven foundation that will only hurt me down the line. Maps Symmetry would be huge to help me make some actual progress in getting past this so I can have an even foundation to build on!

[@dbzgtcrazy]

If I can get my sleep on point (still dealing with drainage from getting over a cold) I'm gonna be pushing up to 3x Foundational workout in Phase 2 of Anabolic! Stoked to see the "new hypertrophy" potential after completing the strength phase!

[@kingking-mo7tc]

So I have done what you guys are talking about unintentionally. I but I didn't do it long enough. It's summer time and I like to workout outside. Once I get back in a gym and start lifting definitely going to try it for a month

[@kingking-mo7tc]

Or more.

[@Dee-qs3zd]

Only on episode 365 love this show

[@tammyakin-stevanus4360]

You guys give so many great workout variations, I’m into my second week of a change up and I want try something new.. I love the thought of this singe-double. How long should I stay with a variation before I switch again ?

[@terrywbreedlove]

I think he was saying about four to six weeks

[@rogerkandytorrez4515]

Love this podcast 💯💯💯💯💪💪💪