2880: The Program That Built Mind Pump: 10 Years & 100,000 Transformations
episodePreviously titled “2880” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 5, 2026
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mind Pump. Mind Pump. With your hosts, Sal DiStefano, Adam Schafer, and Justin Andrews.
You just found the most downloaded fitness, health, and entertainment podcast. This is Mind Pump. Guess what? It's the 10-year anniversary of the most popular fitness program that we've ever sold, MAPS Anabolic. Over 100,000. transformations, and here's what we're doing. In today's episode, we talk about it, by the way. We reminisce on the origin of MAPS Anabolic and the origins of Mind Pump and why MAPS Anabolic became so popular. But we're also doing a relaunch of the program, and we've got some updates to it. So we have an updated female blueprint, so some different programming for women because they like to focus on certain areas of their body more than men do. There's an updated frequently asked question section.
There's master class videos where Adam, Justin, and I break down some of the core lifts of the program. And then if you get MAPS Anabolic right now, which by the way, it's on sale.
What anniversary does Mind Pump celebrate in this episode?
I'll get to that in just a second. You get three days of live coaching with one of our top personal trainers here at Mind Pump. By the way, if you already have MAPS Anabolic, all the stuff I said is going to get updated for free for you. So if you already have MAPS Anabolic, you get the updated blueprints and all that stuff. But if you don't have it and you want to find out why is this program so effective? Why have so many people done this program? Now's the time to get it, and you can get it for 50% off. Go to mapsanabolic.com. Use the code ANABOLIC. That'll get you 50% off. By the way, this episode is brought to you by a sponsor. Z Biotics. This is a genetically modified probiotic drink that you take when you go and drink.
Why is MAPS Anabolic considered a popular fitness program?
Now, what does it do? Well, it's genetically modified bacteria that breaks down acetaldehyde. This is one of the negative byproducts of alcohol consumption. When acetaldehyde gets released in the gut, it causes a lot of different problems in the body. What Zbiotics does is it breaks down the acetaldehyde in the gut. So you feel, or at least when I use it, way better.
What updates have been made to the MAPS Anabolic program?
It's a pre-alcohol drink. Go to zbiotics.com, that's Z-B-I-O-T-I-C-S.com forward slash mindpump26. Use the code mindpump26 and get 15% off.
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How does the updated female blueprint differ in programming?
I'm talking right now. Hit pause. Head on over to mindpumpstore.com. That's it. Enjoy the rest of the show.
It's been 10 years and over 100,000 transformations. It's the most popular fitness program that we have here at MindPump. And we're relaunching it with some new stuff. So today's episode, we're going to talk all about Maps Anabolic. And what we're adding that's new, if you want to get the relaunch, let's go.
Don't sell yourself short. It's maybe one of the most popular programs on the internet. Oh, cool. I mean, there's not a lot of- You can pit it up against any of those. 100,000 is a lot of programs, dude. That's a lot of people that have gone through Maps Anabolic. And for sure, our foundational program. And what brought us together. It did.
It did bring us together. So it was 10 years ago that we launched it, Doug. But when was the program? You wrote it almost three years before that. Was it three years before that? So yeah, we wrote it in 2013. 2013. 2013, yeah. And then we did launch it in 2016. No, we launched it initially in 2013. Oh, right. So we finished it in October 2013. That was before you guys met us. Exactly. So you needed the help. Yeah. Just to get the word out. We tried internet marketing by ourselves.
Let's be honest.
They were missing Justin and I. So in that program, so the way that it kind of started, Doug was my client at the time. So this was way back when I had a personal training.
Way to humble me there. Yeah, I know. You pulled up P90X. Don't look at that. Oh, man. I mean, you just pulled up like the biggest ever, right? Yeah. Well, we have a ways to go.
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Chapters
6 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:03
2
What anniversary does Mind Pump celebrate in this episode?
1:03–1:44
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Why is MAPS Anabolic considered a popular fitness program?
1:44–2:06
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What updates have been made to the MAPS Anabolic program?
2:06–2:30
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How does the updated female blueprint differ in programming?
2:30–26:31
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What is the significance of trigger sessions in strength training?
26:31–33:31
Speakers
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