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If you love us like we love you, why not show it by rocking one of our shirts, hats, mugs, or training gear over at MindPumpStore.com? I'm talking right now. Hit pause, head on over to MindPumpStore.com. That's it. Enjoy the rest of the show. All right, you got 90 days. You got 90 days to make incredible progress. That's three months, 12 weeks. We're going to talk about it right now. We're going to tell you exactly what you need to do to make some dramatic changes to your body in 90 days. Let's go. Set up his key. How do you get these first couple of weeks going? Oh, yeah. No, good point. Very good point. And 90 days is enough time to make some decent changes. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. I hate it when people are making a good dent for sure in 90 days. Yeah, I hate it when social media, fitness, and fluency are like 30 days. Yeah, that's nothing. No, but three months, you can make some pretty decent changes the way you look and feel. So I think it's a reasonable target. But I like what you said, Adam, because you 100% need to set yourself up properly. I think one of the biggest mistakes someone would make going into a 90 day, let's say, challenge or whatever, or targeted focus is not knowing where they're starting. Not knowing. And so for diet, that looks like tracking. If you're trying to make a lot of progress in 90 days, you need to know what you're working with. Otherwise, you're going to be playing a lot of guesswork and trying to watch the mirror and the scale to see what's going on. And that'll waste a lot of time. Well, the key to this too is when you typically when someone gets started on like a 90 day kick or a goal that they set like this, they want the end of the day, said, OK, I want to do this day one. They want to right away start like the diet, start the workout. Illuminating everything. Yeah. And I, and I really want the first week when I'm helping somebody through this the same as it was the previous week, you know, as closely as possible. So in other words, what a typical week would, and that would include all bad eating or drinking habits. Don't change anything for the first. Yeah, because there's a there's a very, the one of the most powerful things this week is just bring awareness to what you are normally doing. And as accurate as the more accurate this is, the more effective. Oh, yeah. The next next days will be so if you're like, I want to start today and we're telling you to track for a week or two. If you make any changes, it's not accurate. It needs to be what you normally do because then we can see when you look at your calories, when you look at your proteins or fats or carbohydrates or fiber. When you're looking at those numbers, now you know, OK, this is my starting point. But if you make changes and then track, we have no idea. Well, that is your insurance is so much better because it's not so drastically different than what you're already doing. If you can figure out and assess exactly your patterns and then make some micro tweaks that will really, you know, be more advantageous for you, you know, you're being able to ride that out a lot longer. No, let's talk about some of the most common things that I would find when I had somebody do this. Like, yeah, so let's pretend, right? So someone just tracked for, you know, seven days. So they recorded, they got an app. What's your favorite app? I like Fat Secret. Okay, so that secret or my fitness pal, both are good apps. So they're entering in every day. What you do is you enter everything you eat and drink in this app every single day. And so now at the end of the week, they know on a daily basis, here's what my calories are averaging my proteins, my fats, my carbohydrates and my fibers. This is what I'm averaging. This is my starting point. And so what you were saying, yeah, these are the most common things that I would see. Almost always we were under consuming protein, most people, high sugar, not enough fiber, a lot of your fat coming from saturated fat. We'd have lower calorie days followed by huge, like kind of binge days. Yeah, swings. So it's like, you know, you have a day where you don't eat very much and also another day where you eat a thousand plus calories. And so these kind of these huge peaks and valleys and inconsistent days, just total calorie wise, those are probably the most common things that I would see. And why this is so important is because if you try and tackle all of it, in my opinion at once, you're less likely to be successful. And so once I kind of get this, this picture of, okay, this is where this client is at, I typically would want to focus on just one or two things. In their diet that could could really move the needle and that almost always was the protein. That's right. Because it tended to start to make even the other things that were really bad. Like if I, if I had somebody, let's say that hit all those things, which would happen sometimes, high sugar, high saturated fat, under eating protein, inconsistent calories, getting them to just go after their protein target weight in grams of protein. So in other words, if you wanted to weigh 150 pounds, you go get 150 grams of protein every day, just focusing on that every day consistently started to make all those other things better. It's the best first thing to move. Yeah. Even if even if I didn't tell you, I want you to cut back on sugar or increase fiber or cut back on your saturated fat. I just said, okay, what we're going to do for these first couple of weeks is we're just going to really be consistent with every day hitting that 150 grams or 200. Whatever your target body weight is in grams of protein every day. And then we'll reassess a couple of weeks later. Yeah. So I 100% I'd say probably 90% of everybody who's listening right now who's never done this before, they're going to find that they're, they're, they're daily protein is probably half or less of the of the what would be considered optimal. Now, why is one gram of protein per pound of target body weight optimal? Well, here's what the data shows. The data shows that when all of the things are controlled. Okay. So calories are controlled, exercise is controlled, everything else is the same. High protein builds more muscle and results typically a more fat loss. It also has a high satiety effect, meaning it does naturally tend to control appetite on hormone. As far as its effect on hormones, it, it tends to blunt sugar spikes in the blood, even if you eat sugar, even if you eat candy, if you eat after high protein meal, it blends, it blunts the response. So it improves insulin sensitivity, which has far reaching effects. So that first week you track, if your protein is below what we said, which it probably will be unless you're somebody that already already always tracks. So you already know you're hitting that hit that aim for it. And I would say do that and aim for it from whole natural foods, by the way, it's far more effective to do it that way than to try and get it from protein shakes. Now I'm not opposed to protein shakes, but save those for the end of the day. So if your goal is 150 grams of protein a day, and you get to the end of the day and you've ate all the food that you're going to eat, and you add it up, you're like, oh no, I'm at 120 or 100, throw a shake on it to hit that number. I only do it at the end of the day. I want to add to that piece of advice because I agree with it. I'll tell you what, more often than not, I had to do with the client because under eating protein was so dramatically different or difficult or new for this, for most people. I typically would allow like the protein shakes in there at the beginning just to hit our target. And then the next goal or layer is, okay, now we've got to try and do it from whole foods. Yeah, now let's see if we can do this from whole foods because a lot of times it's quite a bit of a leap for somebody who tracks for their first week and then realizes for the first time ever that what they thought was high protein was only about 70 grams of protein a day. And oh my God, they're way under eating that. And then I go, I want you to eat, you know, all that through whole foods and that becomes daunting to them because it's like double the amount of protein they were used to eating. So it's like, okay, we can include a shake, but understand that the ultimate goal is to get where you're going. And honestly, why I like that is because it gives them little steps and they'll see somebody who under eats protein grossly like most people do, I find in this situation just by adding a shake every day at the end of the day or whatever. They all of a sudden start seeing progress from their strength training that they're not used to because their body's getting more of what it needs. And then eventually we start to progress to where we try and eliminate that and make it at all through whole foods. Yeah, so the next between three to maybe eight weeks, what you're trying to do now is just hit protein. Now this will work well for you if your protein was under, which most of you will be when you first track. Whether you're not your goal is to build muscle or lose body fat or both. It works for everybody. Okay. So increasing the protein will help you if you're trying to lose body fat. It'll also help you if you're trying to build muscle. And so that would be a great place to start from weeks, let's say three to eight. After that, we're going to make another adjustment. Once you get towards the end of this, probably starting a week eight or nine, now we're going to adjust again. And here's where you make a calorie adjustment based on your goal. I want to lose more body fat or only gain more muscle. Now you increase or decrease your calories based on your goal. And that would be the next place. Yeah, I would. The one thing I would add to the three to eight weeks is I think the weeks one and two, it's a lot of like tracking, calibrating, like, okay, figuring out how I'm going to eat that many grams of proteins. They're probably having to do a shake of time weeks three through eight, or in my opinion, the goal that you, you are giving them of like, I know that in the, when I'm starting with somebody on a journey like this, three to eight, a lot of that is working towards these perfect days of all whole food all through protein. And I also know that tends to, if they can start stretching days in a row of all whole foods, hitting their protein take their calories kind of take care of themselves and land where they're supposed to be. And then the next thing I'm communicating with record regarding diet during these three to eight weeks is actually feed the body because we're strength training, right? And we'll get to the strength training part. But you're hungry. Yeah, if you're hungry, eat, like, I actually want that regardless of where these calories are regardless of the goal is I want that body fed. And I want you to start listening to where your body is now trying to build muscle. We're finally giving it protein like it's supposed to your belt, your meal source are gonna look more balanced. If you tell me you're hungry, go eat, just eat how we're eating, which is these protein centric meals and their whole foods. That's kind of the conversation. And I find that if you do that for those first three to eight weeks, when we get to that final nine to 12 weeks, we're set up to really do whatever you want to do, which is if someone is aggressively trying to build, it's like, okay, let's add three, five hundred calories. Yeah, add three hundred calories. If someone's like, okay, I really want to lean out. Now we cut calories from wherever that was. And if we did a good job in weeks three through eight on the person who started this journey with like a say, like eventually like some sort of a fat loss or leaning or like your body recomp or whatever. They should have gotten themselves up to a good calorie place that we can adjust by listening to the prep and consistency is going to be really challenging. And so to be able to keep hitting that for the three to eight week marks is going to be huge. That's right. And that's the hardest part about this is just being consistent with it is can you consistently prepare your meals and eat whole foods and and try and have every day your protein intake come from that. And it doesn't mean if you have a day or two that you had to use a shake or not, like, oh, the whole programs out the window or you fail. It's just that optimally, that's what we're shooting for. We're shooting for as many hundred percent days in a row that we can and the better job you do with that, the more success you'll have with this blueprint that we're laying out. Now let's talk about the workout. Okay. So what's the workout look like? We're going to focus on the strength training because strength training is easily the most important form of exercise when it comes to changing the way your body looks, both just shape, but also body composition. It's a very effective form of exercise. Most of you are going to want to do about three days a week of strength training. Okay. Most of you three days a week will be working out in the gym. And the way you're going to probably want to break this up is into three blocks or phases. And the phases don't have to have different exercises. They can. But for most of you, you're going to do better off by looking at the weight and the rep ranges. And you're going to be messing with the rep range. So in the beginning, it's, it's a good idea to start with a higher rep range. I'm trying to hit 12 to 15 reps. I'm going to pick a weight that is challenging. So if you hit 14 reps or 13 reps on your exercise, it's something that you might have been able to do 14 or 15 reps. In other words, intensity is very important. Okay. So you're not going to train to absolute failure, meaning you can't do another rep, but you're going to get close to failure with each of your sets. And we're going to start here at about 12, around 12 to 15 reps. And we're going to start here because we want good technique, good form. And we're trying to build a little bit of strength stamina as we move into the later. Well, it's good too. Cause then you'll be able to see when the breakdown occurs, which is good feedback from when you really start to kind of build up that load. So now when you get the lower rep ranges, it's like, okay, I know that, you know, my form, I start getting fatigued around here, but adding that in that extra bit of stress. It's like, okay, I have a better gauge of like what that looks like. I really like this, this first phase being focused on the higher rep for the reason that we, we tend to give a lot of the people that call in, which is, you know, approach your workouts as like practice. Instead of this, you know, oh, I heard that if I do this to failure and what about these drop sets and all these, all these gimmicks to gain, you know, a little bit more results from your workout versus go into the gym, you know, your handful of movements you're supposed to do for the day. Do enough reps, 10 to 15 rep range where you're doing it enough times that you can get good at it. You could practice it. And that's kind of what you're thinking about as you get to this, like this first phase is, it's all novel to me. I wasn't consistent before this. I'm just now starting to dial my diet in. I'm now doing all these movements consistently three days a week. I'm just going to practice these movements right now. I'm just going to get good at it. And just feeding the body properly, paired with a good signal of train, strength training is going to start to recalibrate that body, start to build muscle, start to move in the right direction. And so approach those workouts with that mentality, with this, I'm getting good at these movements. You build momentum. That's right. Then you get into weeks five to nine and now you're going to go heavier. You're going to add weight to the bar, to the dumbbells. And now your rep ranges are going to be lower. Now we're looking between eight to 10 reps, moderate reps. So instead of 13 reps or 14 reps, I'm going for eight or nine reps and I'm got heavier weight on the bar. You don't need to change the exercises. In fact, most people would be better off keeping the exercises pretty much the same throughout this entire program. I'm just going heavier now and the feel is different. The intensity feels very different. It doesn't feel as exhausting, but it just feel heavier and harder as I'm going through the lifts. And then the last phase, which is after week nine, now I'm going heavy and I'm adding more weight and I'm sticking to about six reps. And this is where I can have fun. And by this point, your protein intake is high. Your, your, your, your everything's feeling good. And if you're in a cut, this will help preserve muscle. If you're in a bulk, this is going to help build muscle. And now I'm trying to see how strong I can get in these low rep ranges. Now it's important to focus on mostly compound lifts. Okay. So most of the exercises you're going to do are going to be the ones that involve more than one joint. These are your dead lifts and your squats and your bench presses and your rows and your overhead presses. And you can sprinkle in some isolation exercises, but the bulk and the majority of your workout should be compound lifts. They're just more effective, more bang for your buck. They're going to give you way better results for the same time spent. Now if you want to spend two or three times as much time in the gym, you could try some of those other exercises. I don't know why you would. You're not going to be as effective and you're going to spend twice as much time in the gym. Get those, focus on those compound lifts. Get good and get strong at them. If you get really strong at squats, dead lifts, presses, rows, overhead presses, by the end of this program, you're going to look very different. I would argue if you have the time to spend in the gym more than the typical person, then what would serve you more than doing these other exercises is actually giving yourself longer rest periods between sets. Yeah. I think one of the biggest mistakes that I see people do when they get into a strength training routine is this getting through the exercises too fast, almost chasing a sweat or fatigue. So they feel like it's really challenging. If longer rest periods make strength training more effective. Yes. People think people believe rest periods are necessary so I can rest because I need the rest. And once I feel like I can go again, I should go again. No, that's not the case. Longer rest periods. Okay. So three minute rest periods, four minute rest periods. You're stronger on the next set. It's more effective for building muscle. That's what we want. We want to send a muscle building signal. We're trying to speed through the workout. What Adam is saying is not to make the workout easier for you. It's allowing you to lift heavier. Exactly. Okay. And it makes the lie more intensity. It works. It's far more effective. Now a lot of people might be bored by this because they're so used to doing circuits and group classes and stuff like that. It's not what we're doing here. You want your body to look different. You want to see radical change, build some muscle, build some shape, build some skull. I mean, if you're, if you're listening to this and you've never tried this before. I challenge you to pay attention to a lift that you're very familiar with that you've done before. Ideally like a compound lift that you've done and, and see what your rest periods at. Typically a lot of people are resting like 90 seconds to under three minutes. It's normally in that range. And if you fall in that range that I'm saying right now and you've never rested for four minutes before between sets. I urge you to just, and to just do it and no, and see how much more weight you can potentially put on the bar. And so it is wild. And this is why you'll see, you always know when a power lifter is working out because the power lifter will take these long breaks. It's five, eight minutes. Yeah. Bring a lawn chair out. Oh yeah. You'll see them sit down. They're messing around with their knee wraps or doing all the chalking up. They're messing with their shoes and all. And they'll be waiting way between sets before they go do these sets and allowing themselves to fully recover and go after that. And that's part of how they get really strong. And so many people have been taught to do this like high intensity, low rest period, keep it moving, do more exercises, more stuff. You would be far better served to do less exercises, longer rest periods and load the bar with more weight than you would be to get more exercises. You're just going to get better results. Yeah. Now, as far as cardio is concerned, a little bit of cardio is perfectly fine, but most of you would be well suited. Just trying to track your steps, an easy step counter on your phone or a pedometer, very inexpensive. And just 10,000 steps a day, eight to 10,000 a day. If you hit that, you're doing great in combination with the strength training, in combination with the diet advice. Start this now in 90 days. You're going to look and feel radically different. Another way to do steps that I like to do, because you broke this up in like these three phases or whatever over the course that time, is every one of those is doing an increase of about 2,000 steps. So depending on wherever anybody's at. So you go six to eight to ten. Yeah. So just where most, the average American only moves about 4,000 steps. And so it's like, as you move through each of the phases that we just talked about, like the phases of weeks one to two, weeks three to eight, and weeks nine to 12. And then bumping you 2,000 walking steps a day every time all the way through that. And you can, depending on if you're someone who's really low, maybe you can afford to go two to 3,000 steps. If you're already somebody who's at the eight, 9,000, maybe it's just 2,000 steps. But the goal is to just create more movement and activity through your day doing that in conjunction with the diet and the training. Look out. That's right. 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