1329: How to Build Your Hamstrings, the Best Way to Find Your Maintenance Calories, How to Use Resistance Training to Improve Climbing Performance & More

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about exercises & strategies to increase hamstring size and strength, tracking vs a calculator to find maintenance calories, supplementing rock climbing with resistance training, and giving unsolicited advice in the gym.

• Harvard’s COVID-19 heat map. (3:59)
• A.I.’s massive impact on future societies. (4:58)
• Will gyms ever be the same post-pandemic? (11:10)
• Weightlifting and the brain. (21:13)
• Mind Pump Investments. (25:35)
• How the coronavirus is exposing poor business practices. (32:10)
• Why is TikTok so successful? (35:45)
• Magic Spoon’s request to their audience. (38:11)
• Mind Pump Recommends, Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix. (40:24)
• #Quah question #1 – I have really good quad development, but my hamstrings are lagging a bit behind. What are some exercises or strategies to increase my hamstring size and strength? (45:27)
• #Quah question #2 – You guys have always talked about tracking normal food intake to find your maintenance, but you have begun promoting a formula type approach. What is the difference between your formula and others you seem to bash in the past? (49:57)
• #Quah question #3 – I do rock climbing and American Ninja Warrior training for pretty much all of my exercises, but listening to your podcast has got me considering adding resistance training to the mix. How can I add it in a way that supplement’s my performance? (54:49)
• #Quah question #4 – If you see people participating in very poor programming, and you are not a trainer but very well educated in fitness, should you say anything? (1:00:55)

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