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0:15 Mike has doubts

4:27 Olympia recap

12:59 Mike’s surprising muscle retention

27:03 Its hard to lose muscle

37:19 Nick loves dirt pudding

38:51 How to easily maintain muscle

51:26 Nutrition and lifestyle components

1:08:30 How to come back to training after a break

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0:40 Mike feels violated

1:55 Leadership 101

6:19 Be an unhinged boss

8:01 Workplace culture

16:37 Encouraging diversity

18:51 Food policy

22:33 Termination policy

29:43 Vacation policy

33:19 How tenure works

40:21 Catering

43:37 Payroll

52:42 Monarchy

57:38 Pre meeting meeting

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0:50 Nick visits Italy

1:56 Hurricane woes

8:08 Media exaggeration

12:33 Nick LOSES weight on vacation

20:39 Increasing steps on vacation

28:19 European protein pudding

32:36 Nick tours Venice

37:16 Nick gets a black eye from Lori and lies about it

45:04 America does have bigger portions

50:54 Going bimonthly

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1:08 Losing football teams

9:35 Brown belt vs black belt difference

11:32 Dealing with NFL traffic

16:37 Standing when the airplane lands

25:29 Waiting at baggage claim

28:17 Mike farts everyone to death

37:24 International business class

39:19 Mike’s fart taints the car

41:55 Go-to flight snacks

44:27 Mile cries during The Flash

47:11 Loud talking on plane

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0:50 Mike always getting recognized

9:25 How to psych up for the gym

10:45 Mike’s best psych up

16:50 Nick’s psych up jam

20:10 Timing the psych up

24:42 Staying calm when you must

28:30 How much did a T-Rex eat

31:16 Psych up for strength vs hypertrophy

40:21 What to do for high reps

45:45 Negative motivation

48:33 Mike’s BJJ psych up

50:44 Flipping the switch

53:01 Predator mentality

1:03:23 Sportsmanship off the field

1:09:29 Mike’s fav type of sports movie

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0:13 No tangents

0:57 Productive maintenance

3:48 Bad maintenance

10:00 Weekend cheating

14:55 Low diet fatigue

22:24 Mike tries to “J” the “D”

24:19 Chronic dieting

29:31 Don’t try to offset over eating

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0:28 Menno’s squats for cardio study

7:47 People interpreted this wrong

14:49 People only reading headlines

20:15 Squatting with runners

26:10 Dealing with nuance

37:30 The real liars

43:02 Thumbnails and titles explained

46:27 “Runners are psychos”

48:57 Paleo and Crossfit

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0:39 Nicks pizza restaurant experience

5:11 Nick hates doordash

7:22 Nick’s ice cream experience

8:34 MIke’s burrito issues

12:19 Mike and Nick’s  fav quotes

17:32 Mike was a janitor

23:55 Challenging yourself

25:35 Coldstone creamery

29:29 Mike’s weird food issues

34:56 Waiters not writing things down

38:21 Nick flipped out as a waiter

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0:46 Back to school

2:48 Max the editor boy

3:47 Visiting Phoenix and Vegas

7:48 How to bump up calories after a diet

16:54 Metabolic adaptation

21:35 Gaining weight on maintenance

26:58 Semaglutide hate

31:38 Leptin

36:35 Unfair judgement on overweight people

45:51 Genetics in fat loss and strength

56:15 Weight loss drugs must be taken seriously

0:14 Mike is sick

1:49 Hunger vs cravings

5:07 What are cravings

13:19 Creating a proper food environment

15:26 Eating from boredom

20:37 What is hunger

32:29 What is food focus

34:52 Nick’s Vegas buffet story

41:38 How does Nick’s food focus feel

0:20 Mike’s mandatory vacation

1:19 How to rate cardio in the diet app

5:12 How to rate weight training workouts

7:05 Don’t sweat the minutia

16:16 Collagen protein tracking

18:04 Genetics

21:09 Falling off the wagon

25:03 Measuring with no food scale

28:04 Eating lots of veggies

30:16 Adding calories helped weight loss!?

34:48 Hypertrophy app recommending low sets