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Silliest lifting cues? | Topic Thunder

Silliest lifting cues? | Topic Thunder
Silliest lifting cues? | Topic Thunder
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Silliest lifting cues? | Topic Thunder

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This week’s question: What are some of the silliest/most...

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0:09 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another topic. Thunder our fucking sound boards taking a goddamn nap. Dude's drunk in the corner. There's an internet lag for five feet away, and put the lad the internet delay. Halo. What a god. This is where we answer your freaking questions in five ten minutes. Try to get you some answers in. We're with the crew the newly popped What's what are you popping? A woman? This might get graphic A hymen? Yeah, newly oggi hymen. Welcome to the show. And today's question is how do you fit cardio? You do it? You're a fucking athlete, I heard, so you can take this one ogi. How do you fit cardio and string training together? Will cardio reduce the muscle sizz?

1:10 There's no E on the size for some recent muscles. Yeah, how do I fit it? Yeah? Just do it after, or do it before, or just put fifteen minutes or thirty minutes aside before you work out to warm up properly and then do a proper cool down. And that's easy. Just like that, And if you're real busy, show up earlier. True, it's that simple. Not bad. Yeah, I think all of it depends on the you know, how extreme of a stimulus or results you want. So if you're trying to train for a marathon, your muscle size may reduce, right, you're burning so many calories and your body wants to get rid of any excess weight. When you're trying to travel it so far right, you're literally a machine. But if you're just trying to be in good shape, to look good good shape, to feel good with your heart and health and all that, I would do exactly what Matt said, perfect world, I would do it in a different session. So if you could lift in the more, do some going to cardio at night or vice versa.

2:02 Really, but I would try to lift first if muscle size or strength is the ultimate goal, and then if not, I would just do some really low intensity shit. That's why the old school bodybuilders walk, riding bikes, assault bikes. Ronnie Coleman's on the fucking recumbent bike for an hour every morning playing pac Man or whatever he's doing. Those will have less overall fatigue and the stimulus is low, so you can continue to focus that energy onto the lifting itself. And then it comes down to another what is it it's more food then based, because if you don't want to lose strength, you've got to make sure you're getting your macros. Yeah, yeah, if you're not, I guess yeah, he didn't specify whether he's cutting or bulking. So if you're like maintaining any low intensity stuff shouldn't have right. But if yeah, if you're burning one hundred extra calories, you probably want to eat extra hundred calories if your goal isn't to lose weight. And then if you are losing weight, yeah, you're just putting less energy in there, right, So chances are you're going to lose a bit of a little strength from that, perhaps a little bit of size. But if your volume in intensity is the same on training, you should maintain size pretty damn decently. It's pretty easy to maintain. And beyond that, it's kind of easy. I've always wondered whether, and I'm sure that there are studies out there, whether the you know, walking after you eat has a significant impact, But I will say that it is. It's a prompt, like you know, if you can't figure, you can't fit it in anywhere else. So you can walk, you know, ten minutes after your for ten minutes or more after your meal, and you know it's a it's a prompt. Sometimes it's you know, fitting it into your day. If you don't want to do it,

3:32 Yeah, it's a problem physiologically probably no benefit besides maybe some digestive stuff, getting the blood moving rather than just sitting all day, right, and then your bloods just fucking rush into your fat toes and then you guys are getting DMA and you're looking fat and gross and elephant titus and everything else going with that, but actually burning fat. Now, it'll just yet, it'll equal out. No same reason why fast it is? Yeah, nothing, yeah, but it'll equal out, but it is. Yeah, I mean that's I would just set schedule, you know, setting a schedule on anything you do is gonna make it up. So every day at fucking noon, I work out. Every day at two I'm on the bikescle for half an hour, and fit that in whatever your life is. If your baby wakes up at seven am, get up at six fucking thirty, go for a half an hour walk, then go take care of your baby, yeah, or walk your fucking baby at seven or whatever the fuck it is. I don't know. I don't have a baby, but don't leave your baby at home.

4:21 Yeah, I guess that's what popped in my head. The bottom line is, don't leave your baby alone. If your baby's crying, go on a walk. Yeah, yeah, get out the house. Yeah some shit like that, but yeah, move, balance it out. I would always put cardio as much as I can in a different session or after my training, prioritize training. If muscle size and strength is the goal, and you're just like, whatever cardio do you do before you lift? It's just warm up? Yeah yeah, and even after. I mean, if you're doing sprints, you know all the time, it's gonna end up affecting your your training itself. And whether that will directly affect your muscle size or strength maybe not, but the fatigue will, which is why you pick a different day. Yeah, or I just do low intensity shit, yeah it'll it'll linger. You know, some people love to sprint. I totally don't understand that.

5:04 Yeah, I like it. I do. And so if like, if your goals are more balanced, you know, if your goals aren't to be like a bodybuilder or a powerlifter, yeah, do whatever fucking cardio you enjoy. Go play basketball on the weekends. Go bouldering and go whatever. Those just tend to probably affect your fatigue longer and more. All right, dude, plug them out with your eight Instagrams, two and three Twitters, Matt Ogi, Matt Underscore Ogi, that's it. That's it, Ladies and gentlemen. Newpisodes Wednesday and on Friday. I am Silent Mike three sp dot Coe for all your clothing needs, all your apparel needs, check it out. I am at the Jim mcdeon all the social media. This show is fifty percent factshere percent is a word and fifty is just numbers. Fifty percent Facts is a speaker Prime Podcast and association with iHeartMedia on the Obscure Celebrity Network.

5:49 And we'll talk to you next time. Well, he said climbing, We end it. We Okay, I got two more in my head right now after that? So who are crazy on his head? Running? Yeah? Is that gonna be lag? You ready, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another I didn't say it yet, I was ready for that was the test. Welcome to another topic thunder all right, thank you. Where we answer y'all's questions if you want to get involved. Good company. Discord dot com you can come hang out and get a community there, early access to our clothing, drops, exclusives, giveaways, et cetera, et cetera.

6:51 Today, y'all's spelling like I text, like I'm in fucking seventh grade, but you guys are really bad. What are some s u M silly lifting cues and ques that actually worked for y'all? There's a lot. Yeah, there's a ton. There's a ton. What's a silly one? A silly one? Up up up up up, Like you're not gonna do that. I do that. That isn't your plan. That's my go to when my plan is DeLand on my ass on the floor. I think that's the go to when you don't know the person, right because like you ain't their coach. Yeah, you know, so if you're just trying to cheer someone on, you go to a basketball game and just say like go yeah, or you just say like defense because like other sports, I have c'es too, you know, like when I coach basketball, IM yelling cues of the guys some of the what we talked about in practice or somebody talked about in the pregame speech just to remind them to do ex and oh but if I don't know them, you're just screaming defense, defense, you know, it's kind of the same thing, like, clearly you're trying to play defense. So so what you're trying to say, though, is that most cues are cheering, I think in uh, in lifting, in a gym in general, unless you're a coach. Yeah, because most people don't know what the fuck they're doing. But yeah, i'd say I'd say that that's a big thing now, which is cool. You go to a meet and there's tons of cheering, yeah, or even a gym here, you know, like someone's going for big pr everyone kind of stops and looks, and it's probably more cheering than cues, But that's probably just from lack of education or or the sports is growing too, because yeah, you want someone cheering for you when you're fucking because you're scared, right, you're in the psychou game. This is too heavy. You're getting a little nervous. You got a one remax, you don't know what to do. In the geared era, one of

8:24 the more annoying ones was back like squatting back back, back, back, back, back back. You don't really hear it anymore, no, because it was always annoying because the person knows to go back, yeah, or they because they are they're not going to go down. So that's in the gear that you have to sit into it and and you don't go straight down, you have to go back. Yeah, and you don't really sit into a raw squad. No, not really. I mean some folks may, but not as much. Chest up. I don't know if like silly is the right thing, but probably just like misused or overused or overrated cues. I think that uh, tight or get tight or whatever before the lift is a pretty good cue. But that's a little bit of like an up one too, right, Yeah, like hopefully you're getting tight or this is about crumbling. Yeah, but I think people forget like people forget upper back, getting their upper back tight sometimes for squat and bench. But again, yeah, if i'm their coach, if i'm their coach, then I'm just screaming that, yeah, hey, check your back, hold the bar, squeeze your blades, yeah something. Yeah. And that's really what cues are is hopefully like yeah, they're all silly. Yeah, they're all you know, and think could sounds silly. Ed Cone talks about opening your taint like that obviously clearly sounds silly, but like if you explained what that was at a different time, that may have a great connection to somebody. Yeah, Like if you're attending a childbirth, that's a pretty good time to say that.

9:46 Yeah, yeah, tain steering childbirth's that's a hurricane. That's just a flesh hurricane getting down there. Well, I'm afraid of that. You have seeing a cow get birth, Yeah, I don't know if I could see a human get birth. I don't know if I could ever look at my wife the same you're telling your wife to brace them. I'm probably looking at her eyes, you know, because there's a sheet up right, people have to be we need a sheet up. We need a giant sheet up. I ain't going down there if I belt up the wife when she's like giving bird, I don't think that's healthy for the child. Like brace I think they're already ripping it up. What's it called? Like the devil's hideway gets shredded.

10:28 They gotta have surgery sometimes the connect or the intersection. Sometimes, yeah, not all the time. But like with my belt on, I wanted some weird deep hole. Well that has nothing to do with me, so speak rabbit hole, rabbit hole, rabbit of the amount of sea sections in America versus the rest of the world. Oh yeah, yeah, it's high. Are you a section? I have no idea. I don't remember. We didn't videotape it. We didn't log in, you didn't. I don't know if I feel like I was doing for mid jan Everyone got a video of them. You really, Yeah, But I had a big as hand so they see section. Yeah they didn't. I wasn't no normal baby, they got bro. The doctor's like that, this got a big ass head here coming out. They say, it's just American medical, that's what they say. Well, that's actually what my wife's been working on right now.

11:18 She's she's you know, because she's a retired nurse. She's going in and in fact she's doing it today. In fact, she was on the news this week doing it. We're talking about it. She's a doula, so she actually helps women through the labor process, like they put them in different positions and that kind of opens their hips up and moves the baby along so that it's not so so difficult to get them out. But he got a big head. It's still gonna tear or they're gonna cut and you know it's gonna happen, but it but not hopefully not a sea section unless there's like the babies in trouble or moms in trouble or whatever. But in America, doctors like things to be like clean fast. It's gonna be faster. They're trying to get home, yeah, or they're trying to go do another baby and make another one hundred thousand, Yeah faster. Yeah, that's how it goes. Dude. It's just a fucking baby factory. Yeah. Bag's a bag. Yeah, it might be whoa what? Hello? I'm not sure it's relevant conversation. I'm not even sure I know what it means. I don't think I want to know either. I'm just as my fucking doctor.

12:16 Yeah he's in a backdoor, my kid, What are you talking about? Well, I'm there, Okay, other silly cues. I don't know, all right, what's a que that works for you or what's something that you think about? Why? I just grab the floor in my toes okay, sqatting, bud lifting both, yeah, even in bench because the new age of benching, like you're using so much leg drive and you're getting the long arts, Like our legs are farther apart than you got or pushed out farther than you guys bench back in the day. Like you guys were tighter. We're a little bit longer. So I think we're just in different feeds too, so we go toes up a lot for us. Definitely grabbing the floor applies to all, so I think that's not silly, But it's like the only cue I could say some helps. I think that one that doesn't that some people don't think about, but I think it's true, is towards your face when you're benching. Yeah. For many Yeah, because people want to push straight up and where you need to push up and back for many so much just individuals, So I don't necessarily I don't really like have one per se when I'm thinking about myself, I'm thinking, when I'm squatting like a big ones, just balance on my foot as much as I can have like full heavy weight in my toes, my midfoot and my heel, the better I feel, because so much of the squad is just balance, right, because why can you press more on a lake press and you can a squad simply obviously it's on rails but it's just balance. You don't have to balance that thing, so it's balanced as I can get on my foot and you can see when I squat, I kind of wobble to find that and then I just plant. But yeah, so much is just so dependent. And then the more you lift, the less cues you should have because you should

13:48 have so much just built in a muscle memory that you're doing it every time. And the only key that you should get from somebody like a coach would be if you're doing something differently than you normally do it, that you need you know and you know reminder. Yeah, you need a reminder to straighten it out somehow. And that's it. On childbirth in America, ladies and gentlemen. Three sp dot co, Grab your gear Training apperil Lux is live right now. Probably our holiday sale is still going if things are in stock, so check it out. Good Company Apparel dot com, Good Company, Discord dot com, Ogi dot c O or some shit on Instagram and Twitter, and I'm sounding like where you want to find me? Is it Matt Underscore Ogi Ogi? My I just keep getting longer Instagram. Yeah, I don't know what it is, dude, to have the same content on them because it's just anyway. I've met d Jim mcdan all the social media.

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