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Sal DiStefano

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

Like obviously a grappler is going to benefit from having that kind of strength because you're grappling on the ground and maybe you need to stand up or move while there's weight on your body. There isn't a muscle that isn't involved in a proper Turkish get up. It requires whole body strength, but most importantly, whole body stability, isometric tension and stability is super involved in this.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

Like obviously a grappler is going to benefit from having that kind of strength because you're grappling on the ground and maybe you need to stand up or move while there's weight on your body. There isn't a muscle that isn't involved in a proper Turkish get up. It requires whole body strength, but most importantly, whole body stability, isometric tension and stability is super involved in this.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

If I see a guy doing this with just a 50-pound dumbbell, let alone 100, but I've seen people do it with more than that, it's impressive regardless of what they look like. It's like, man, that's a lot of weight.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

If I see a guy doing this with just a 50-pound dumbbell, let alone 100, but I've seen people do it with more than that, it's impressive regardless of what they look like. It's like, man, that's a lot of weight.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

If I see a guy doing this with just a 50-pound dumbbell, let alone 100, but I've seen people do it with more than that, it's impressive regardless of what they look like. It's like, man, that's a lot of weight.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

Now, last is what I believe to be one of the greatest examples of just overall core strength. And I first saw Dragon Flags done on an old Bruce Lee movie. Yeah. And I remember which one it was. It might have been Enter the Dragon, but he was demonstrating this. And as a kid, I was like, whoa, look at that. And then I saw it again in Rocky IV, of course.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

Now, last is what I believe to be one of the greatest examples of just overall core strength. And I first saw Dragon Flags done on an old Bruce Lee movie. Yeah. And I remember which one it was. It might have been Enter the Dragon, but he was demonstrating this. And as a kid, I was like, whoa, look at that. And then I saw it again in Rocky IV, of course.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

Now, last is what I believe to be one of the greatest examples of just overall core strength. And I first saw Dragon Flags done on an old Bruce Lee movie. Yeah. And I remember which one it was. It might have been Enter the Dragon, but he was demonstrating this. And as a kid, I was like, whoa, look at that. And then I saw it again in Rocky IV, of course.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

bruce lee did it rocky did it i'm gonna get good at these and when i did these uh and i got good at them my strong my my core became so strong i felt bulletproof my abs became blocks and i felt like i could do anything with my core like every other core exercise was easy in comparison to this like you're able to do six good slow reps of this like you're really strong so it's like one of my favorite core i mean you're

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

bruce lee did it rocky did it i'm gonna get good at these and when i did these uh and i got good at them my strong my my core became so strong i felt bulletproof my abs became blocks and i felt like i could do anything with my core like every other core exercise was easy in comparison to this like you're able to do six good slow reps of this like you're really strong so it's like one of my favorite core i mean you're

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

bruce lee did it rocky did it i'm gonna get good at these and when i did these uh and i got good at them my strong my my core became so strong i felt bulletproof my abs became blocks and i felt like i could do anything with my core like every other core exercise was easy in comparison to this like you're able to do six good slow reps of this like you're really strong so it's like one of my favorite core i mean you're

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

Oh, it's huge. All right, so I found a study on, just to change gears here, on the effects of one bad night of sleep. You guys want to hear it? Oh, yeah. One bad, just to show you how important, I don't want everybody to freak out. You're going to crap me out. Yeah, I don't want everybody to freak out, but, you know, because everybody has one night, you know, everybody has that bad night of sleep.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

Oh, it's huge. All right, so I found a study on, just to change gears here, on the effects of one bad night of sleep. You guys want to hear it? Oh, yeah. One bad, just to show you how important, I don't want everybody to freak out. You're going to crap me out. Yeah, I don't want everybody to freak out, but, you know, because everybody has one night, you know, everybody has that bad night of sleep.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

Oh, it's huge. All right, so I found a study on, just to change gears here, on the effects of one bad night of sleep. You guys want to hear it? Oh, yeah. One bad, just to show you how important, I don't want everybody to freak out. You're going to crap me out. Yeah, I don't want everybody to freak out, but, you know, because everybody has one night, you know, everybody has that bad night of sleep.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

It's not a big deal in that sense. But I think this is good because it kind of highlights the effects of sleep on the body. And how important it is. And so you can add this up. Like what if this happens on a regular basis? Like what is that going to look like? So I'm going to pull it up here. But it's pretty remarkable just how โ€“ here it is. Just how much it affects the body.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

It's not a big deal in that sense. But I think this is good because it kind of highlights the effects of sleep on the body. And how important it is. And so you can add this up. Like what if this happens on a regular basis? Like what is that going to look like? So I'm going to pull it up here. But it's pretty remarkable just how โ€“ here it is. Just how much it affects the body.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

It's not a big deal in that sense. But I think this is good because it kind of highlights the effects of sleep on the body. And how important it is. And so you can add this up. Like what if this happens on a regular basis? Like what is that going to look like? So I'm going to pull it up here. But it's pretty remarkable just how โ€“ here it is. Just how much it affects the body.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

So one night of total sleep deprivation. Okay, so they took somebody with pretty, had them give them a real bad night of sleep. There was a reduction in muscle protein synthesis by almost 20%. And cortisol went up 21%. That was one night of bad sleep. One night. One night of bad sleep. Just from doing that. Oh, by the way, testosterone dropped by 24%.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

So one night of total sleep deprivation. Okay, so they took somebody with pretty, had them give them a real bad night of sleep. There was a reduction in muscle protein synthesis by almost 20%. And cortisol went up 21%. That was one night of bad sleep. One night. One night of bad sleep. Just from doing that. Oh, by the way, testosterone dropped by 24%.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2593: Six Weird Lifts That Make You Strong AF & More (Listener Coaching)

So one night of total sleep deprivation. Okay, so they took somebody with pretty, had them give them a real bad night of sleep. There was a reduction in muscle protein synthesis by almost 20%. And cortisol went up 21%. That was one night of bad sleep. One night. One night of bad sleep. Just from doing that. Oh, by the way, testosterone dropped by 24%.