One of the biggest most impactful advice you’ve given that I’ve shared with multiple people that struggle with their self-image is to take care of yourself as if you were your own child. I was on that vicious cycle of exercising and eating as little as possible as a form of punishment. I had so much self-hatred and thought that my value came from how I looked. But once I changed my perspective, and started to treat myself as I would treat a loved one, everything changed. Exercise and food became nourishment to my body and a way to take care of myself. The self-hatred completely vanished because I don’t judge the people I love by how they look. I have so much peace now and I’m so happy as a result of it. And guess what, I look way better. I just focused on what was best for my body and my health (according to MindPump) and looks came after. So thank you guys so much! You were a blessing to me!
Best tip I received was from some jacked guy I met at summer camp music festival in probably 2011. I asked for his advice and he said, "go in the gym and make the weights your bitch." Don't go in there afraid of the weights scared you may not be ready to progress to the next dumbbell or the next number in the stack. Make them your bitch and own them. (With good form obviously)
One of the best tips was about BALANCE! Sal mentioned that when you get back to the gym from vacation/break just come back and train without going ham on yourself, start with self love and maintain that as you go. And it’s ok to not enjoy it, consistently showing up and giving yourself the gift of discipline has tremendous benefits in many facets of life beyond physical mobility and strength.
Couple tips that helped me were to remember that the feeling of hunger doesn’t necessary mean I have to eat. Using coffee as a hunger suppressant really works, another one is that consistency and discipline is the key to success. Another tip is that if you tie your shoes it will reduce the chance of you falling! 🙂
The best tip that I have learned from this podcast is to consistently get enough sleep. As someone who worked out hard and had a good diet in a caloric surplus, I still wasn’t gaining weight, and so I assumed it was due to genetics and this was how it would always be. However, at that point, I was getting 5 hours of sleep because I had to wake up early for work and I didn’t want to sleep earlier. Once I did start sleeping earlier though, my gains started skyrocketing, and it was shocking to see how much of an affect sleep truly has on our gains. Not to mention, I started doing MAPS Anabolic at the time, so maybe that was the secret formula! I’ve repeated it 3 times and have seen gains every time, but I think it’s time I move on to Performance, and would love to win it. Thanks guys for allowing me to get gains as a hardgainer!
The most useful tip that I got from this podcast was the idea of pre fatiguing. Not because you can get a sick pump or for strength endurance. But rather for the idea of building a better mind/muscle connection. Pre fatiguing my glutes with single stiff leg deadlifts prior to deadlifting as well as pre fatiguing my glutes with hip thrust before squatting has helped me build a better mind/muscle connection and that mind/muscle connection has allowed to improve the quality of my movement patterns. Now that my movement patterns are increasing in quality I’m finding that I’m less quad dominant in my squat and less lower back dominant in my deadlift. Thanks to you guys I know things
The best tip that I have ever got from listening for a little over a year now is to PRACTICE the movements. I have changed my entire workout mindset and mentality in terms of intensity and not worrying about the aesthetics because that will come naturally. I listen and watch you guys everyday and I tell my friends and family about you guys all the time. My roommate makes fun of me for doing mobility and watching the podcasts in our living room but whatever.
The best tip i got from MP was micro-workouts. as a massage therapist and translator i dont have a lot of time but this has been a great way to keep and even make gainz.
The overall best tip for me has been the eye opening truth that in a huge long term weight loss program the first step should be to getting stronger prioritizing muscle building instead of cardio (while forgetting the scale for a while)
The best tip I have got from listening to you guys is to keep listening to the podcast so I keep learning more about about how to achieve healthier lifting habits and just a healthier lifestyle in general. Thank you.
The best tip I've heard on the podcast, was the potty training tip. Adam said something about scheduling a weekend for his son to run around without a diaper and my wife and I tried it and had amazing success.
The best tip for me is talking to a Therapist and get your mind and body in sync before starting your fitness journey . The mental factor on fitness , how you see yourself and your why’s and what’s . If you get your mental strength progress first slowly (progressive overload ) Then your body will follow (lifestyle)
Not to down your experience whatsoever, but I found the other way works too! Just like fitness-while there’s general guidelines, every body responds differently to certain things at certain times. Fitness helped me gain the self confidence/esteem and ability to overcome challenges that I needed to have in order to tackle mental and emotional health issues. While therapy has helped and definitely not saying I wouldn’t have worked on these otherwise in my life without fitness, starting to properly workout as a teenager, I feel, really helped me develop the skills to be a more emotionally and mentally sound young adult! I agree tho, sometimes weight loss or a health journey is being held back by thoughts, beliefs, and the mental side of things. Therapy helps this.
The best tip I’ve gotten from you guys was hard to choose but “trigger sessions” never even heard of it before and it’s helped me see gains 10x more now and such faster recovery., thank y’all!
Best tip.do isolation exercise before compound to wake up muscles that are less dominate during a movement. I found this especially helpful with my pullups. I am shoulder and bicep dominant. Did lat pulldowns before pull ups to help activate my lats. Extremely helpful. I found this helpful too with my squats to help get my glutes activated. I would do barbell hip thrusters first. Made a huge difference. Thanks
My best tip from you guys was- consistency is best! Going to the gym and being consistent with short workouts , even on the days you don’t want to go is superior to knocking yourself bandy trying to increase weights & volume every single time. This and full body routines as opposed to splitting parts. Love Mind Pump podcasts! Always so interesting & informative. 10 out of 10 guys 👌
(I want MAPS Performance, but I also just want to say something important to you guys) Here before 100 views, amazing !! You guys are awesome and the best tip(s) that I’ve ever gotten was more so a podcast. “Ten Ways To Break A Plateau” is the one podcast episode I would recommend to anybody who has never heard of you, or needs advice in training no matter what level they are at. Also I would add in to listen to or read “The Resistance Training Revolution.” Again, you all are so underrated and under-appreciated. You all deserve so much more on all your platforms!
The best tip I have gotten is to hook grip when I deadlift instead of reverse grip! This has seriously improved my deadlift technique and I can lift so much more weight and hold on for more reps then usual!
I think the best tip I've gotten is that health is inclusive of more than just the physical. Sal told a story about how eating pizza and having some wine with his family is important for his emotional and social health. When I got into diet and fitness about 18 months ago, I was almost orthorexic. I thought I had to be dialed in at all times. Talking about health in the collective sense, made me realize that there's more to life than my protein intake and progressive overload. I need to be healthy in every aspect of life, have some balance. Love what you guys do.
the best tip i’ve gotten is not over doing it. it’s hard to hear transitioning from performing sports at a high level to training at a high level. In sports the more time you spend on the field, he more results you’ll see. Thanks to you guys i’ve realized the same isn’t true for the gym. Not pushing myself to the limit and taking off days when I need it isn’t going to result in myself falling behind, it will just enhance my progress. Thanks for all you guys do.
Really appreciated today's podcast! Had difficult time motivating myself to workout today, but after listening to all those great tips, I just had to apply some of them in the gym. I just had my period back a month ago, and you guys helped me a lot to understand that proper fuel is necessary for every athlete. Thanks 😊
My favorite tip is the switching to full body workouts but everyone is saying that, I actually have a tip to give. My tip: turn on notifications for the pod, I am constantly lacking motivation to hit the gym but seeing the pods get posted and listening gets me back in the right mindset and out of the self-criticism mentality. Thanks for the low key emotional support lol
Oh man, too many too list but I'll try: full body workouts, the strategy of not going to failure as often as I used to/keeping a cpuple of reps in the tank, sleep hygiene, workout phasing and not marrying any one type, unilateral training, the healthy and strategic way of doing cardio instead of being mindless about it, trigger sessions to maintain muscle building signal, custom priming exercises instead of silly pre workout warmup routines (like running in place), aiming for .6, .8 or at most one gram of protein per pound of bodyweight instead of the outlandish amounts I grew up hearing bodybuilders talk about, and so on. Really looking forward to eventually mastering the Turkish getup and especially (hopefully) the pistol squat.
It's very bizarre , as I'm the exact opposite to this , full body workouts have never worked for me . Going to failure every workout on a 3 day body split , twice a week is my sweet spot . Just shows how individual we all are
I have to agree that my favorite tip and most life changing was doing full-body training, plus the trigger sessions. The Mind Pump crew has reinvigorated my fitness journey and been the best change in my fitness journey. My fitness journey has been up and down throughout my life. I had gotten away from body part split training years ago when in my late 30’s and even tried doing Bulgarian volume training to get better at squats and deadlifts. I even tried CrossFit, and kinda burned my self out. When I watched your free videos on MAPS Anabolic and tried your free content I instantly saw positive change. I’m in Phase 2 of MAPS Anabolic now and just love the way my body is reacting to the training. Also, want to send a shout out to Sal, love the Resistance Training Revolution. Great content and I reference back to it daily. Thanks to you all at Mind Pump, and keep putting out the excellent content. You are changing people’s lives.
5:00 I have definitely noticed some strength gains following you guys here rather than going to failure. Also giving myself 2 minutes in between sets rather than rushing
Best tip, focus on 80% compound lifts, 20% isolations was huge in minimising junk volume and keeping things simple instead off going overboard with isolations.
Your podcast has completely renewed my spark for my personal fitness and encouraged me to finally do my fitness certificates. You guys dont BS and tell it how it is and we all appreciate that
The best tip for me is to do diet and exercise out of love, not hate of myself. Once I made the mindset change and started to think from that angle, consistent exercise and eating healthy food has become part of my life. Thanks mind pump team.
Question....should fat people use creatine or is it just a waste. Obviously I kno creatine does great for building muscle for skinny and muscular people. But I kno the fat body composition already has alot going for it to help build muscle so I'm curious is creatine is a waste of money or not
My family was very poor and on welfare and food stamps yet we had horses as well! Here's my life tip, don't rest a metal rake on the electric fence when cleaning the pasture.
No.1 best advice was from Sal (actually from Sal's "blue collar" relatives) - if you want big & strong forearms, you should be a plumber for the next 20 years ;) The other one was a recipe for Adam's bulking nutella-peanut-butter-protein shake.
Best tip is listening to Mind Pump. My metabolism went from like 1800 calories per day (at like 270 pounds and in terrible shape) to 3600-3800 ish calories per day at just under 200 pounds and stronger than I ever been! Also went down about 10 plus inches in my jeans! Keep rocking it!!! 🤩💪🏋️♂️
The best tip was to just keep it simple and train the minimum amount of times per week with the MAX benefit. Recently moved from a 6 day a week PPL to a 4 day a week full body and am feeling phenomenal!
Hi guys. I am in Phase 2 of MAPS Split and I think that after completing Phase III I will still have about 20 pounds to lose. Should I restart This split for a second round or should I try other MAPS program?
I’ll tell you what wasnt a top 21 tip, when you gave the analogy of food and women where you acknowledge that you’d have a great time with the unhealthy thing, but you don’t want to. When I told my girlfriend “yea, I’m sure I would have a great time with her, but I don’t want to.” She left me.
Best tip I got from Mind Pump is listening to my body, over training, lack of sleep, digestive issues, anything my body is telling me feels wrong or feels off I should address and I used to "listen" to my body but not know how to really address what it was saying, Shoulder hurts, "oh, I need a day off shoulder training before I get right back to where I left off." instead of what is causing my shoulder to be sore, how am I rehabilitating it, how am I strengthening it and how and I taking care of it afterwards.
The problem I have with doing what you love, is that I eventually stop liking the thing after a couple of years. I used to love running, even ran an ultra marathon, but I just gradually fell out of love with it, until I completely gave up on it a few years ago. I'm now getting back into it for cardiovascular benefits, but it's not as much enjoyable as it is bearable (on a good day that is). Other kinds of cardio aren't enjoyable to me at all (especially indoors fitness cardio, it drives me mad). Other aspects of my life are similar, after a while I just tend to get bored with it.
21 tips to remind me of 21 stupid things I did before I turned 21. Oh well, no need to sulk about the past, gotta press towards the future... with more Mind Pump Episodes!
The best tip in this show I think is THE SCALE WILL LIE TO YOU remember muscle tissue weighs more than fat tissue per volume. You may weight more on the scale but have less fat and look better too. One of the tips from an earlier show I liked was listen to your body. The problem with that is we have become so fast paced in our lives we forgot how to do that. Our bodies will tell us what we need or don't need (for the most part) another tip I liked was practice, practice, practice in this world of immediate gratification it is forgotten how to get to the goals your striving for. I need to get there now. If you practice your exercise movement many of the other things you spoke of will follow (fall in love with your workout, easier routine, ect) you won't have to fight your body or yourself ,mentally, as Sal said about food you will begin to crave what you practiced and if you don't get it you become grumpy and eventually your mental state adjusts until you fall off the wagon. Keep on pumping be safe and healthy
Best tips for me since following MindPump. * Like Sal I totally ignore all studies * Like Adam I never always have a story about my own experience - whatever the discussion * Dominate conversations like Justin and never let anyone else say a word Joking aside I love you guys and you have changed my health more than anything in my life. Your best tip for me 'Do as little as possible to illicit the most amount of change'. This is a life-changer and is my mantra in every aspect of my life
My best tip learned from mind pump is from the recent episode with LCK and giving your body 10 months plus to recover after child birth. I'm 3 months postpartum and struggling with body image. I'm a long time listener and weight lifter and it;'s hard to accept your new body after having a baby!! But I'm giving myself grace
Best tip was on a dude's question about his calories(don't remember exact video). Don't be nitty picky about EXACT calories per day to the level you go psychotic as long as your plan is with a target in mind and you stay consistent. Thanks dudes.
Instead of sitting down to pee, it may be a better option to buy a motion sensor LED light for the toilet bowl. I never miss in the middle of the night, and I don't have to worry about looking like I'm waiting on a bus in the dark.
The best tip is the "just start" doing 10 squats or working out just one day a week, because that's 10 squats you didn't do before, and the tip not really for me because I enjoy working out, but it's something I told my mom and she actually started doing (it's better than nothing)
2 best tips I got from this 6 day a week workout. Why would I work out 6 days a week when I can get same results in 3 days a week. Second was next about the scale boy how I fell for that.
Y’all’s joint podcast with Jason Phillips, jason said “ you can’t implement a good training program and have a shitty diet and expect results and you also can’t have a good diet with a crap training program and expect results” and I live by that tbh lmao. Its helped me see a lot of gains and just be more consistent that’s whole podcast was awesome.
The best tip by far I have received from Mind Pump are the trigger workouts and how to structure them. What a gamechanger!! Affirmation of my full body workout beliefs were also liberating. :-)
Great show guys, as usual. Lots of good tips in there. I would add: read The Cashflow Quadrant, but you already mentioned the Rich Dad books a couple weeks ago so I will give you another one: read great self improvement books, like Think And Grow Rich, or listen to the audio versions. Its like “practicing the movement,” but with the mind.
The best tip not listed is from the Jason Phillips ep, where you guys talk about how, with protein accounted for, your carb to fat ratio should be dependent upon your lifestyle and activity level
