1164: How to Activate Your Chest When Benching, What a New Personal Trainer Needs to Know, Tactics to Overcome Insecurities & MORE

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about how to feel activation in chest when benching, how much information you should know as a new personal trainer, if there is anything they would go back and change in their first 3 programs (Anabolic, Performance & Aesthetic), and how to address insecurities.

• Adam has an addiction to subscriptions. (5:06)
• Sal using scare tactics on his son. (9:42)
• Is seasonal affective disorder a real thing? (11:16)
• How your thermal environment affects your sleep. (14:07)
• Justin is a big dance guy. (19:09)
• The health benefits of the lion’s mane mushroom. (23:02)
• Is milk consumption on the decline? (27:15)
• Can artificial intelligence predict premature death? (30:05)
• Mind Pump recommends The Inventor: Out for Blood on HBO. (30:49)
• The multi-level marketing (MLM) scam that is Beachbody. (34:55)
• Convoy: The Uber of trucking systems. (42:00)
• The psychological benefits of exercise. (45:11)
• #Quah question #1 – When I bench, regular or incline, I don’t feel a lot of activation in my chest. Any tips to feel it more? (48:43)
• #Quah question #2 - How much information should you know as a new personal trainer? I listen to you guys, but I can’t hold a candle to you. (55:23)
• #Quah question #3 – Knowing what you know today, is there anything you would go back and change in your first 3 programs? (1:00:05)
• #Quah question #4 – How would you guys recommend to address insecurities in yourself? (1:07:14)

People Mentioned

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