John Jaquish, PhD, is the inventor of the most effective bone density building
medical device, which has reversed osteoporosis for thousands and created more
powerful and fracture resistant athletes.
He has been called the Tony Stark of the fitness industry by multiple media
outlets. He is the inventor of the world’s most effective bone density building
medical device and has partnered with Tony Robbins. Scientific discoveries based
on his first invention drove his second invention, X3 Bar
: the
world’s most powerful muscle building device.
His book, Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time: So Is Cardio
, and There’s
a Better Way to Have the Body You Want is out right now.
Hope you enjoy my conversation with Dr John Jaquish.
Full Transcript #
Speaker 1: This is the Maje Saba podcast.
Michael: Another (beep) podcast, really? Am I getting paid for this?
Michael: Hello there, and welcome to the podcast. Today I’m really excited
because I’m talking to a very interesting and somewhat controversial guest, Dr.
John Jaquish. I’ll be chatting to him from California, so please excuse the
audio, it’s not always studio quality. He’s written a book,
Weight Lifting is a Waste of Time and so is Cardio
, it took me a long
time to get Dr. John on because he’s got like a million followers on Instagram.
That’s not super important, but it was very hard for him to always see my
messages, because he would block people, and he gets a lot of messages, but
anyway, he’s on today and I’m excited.
Anyway, this is my conversation with Dr. John Jaquish.
Dr. John Jaquish: Hey, thanks for having me.
Michael: It’s an absolute pleasure. I’m going to be honest with you from the
outset, I haven’t read all of the book and that’s because, when I saw the book
was coming out I scrambled to get it here in Australia, and then I couldn’t get
it and it was months and months to wait for it until the middle of November. So,
then I got onto social media, and there’s one good aspect of social media, and I
did a bit of a post and I noticed that some of my friends in the states had the
book, and they were telling me about some of the contents of the book, which I
got very excited about. First of all, I want to ask you about the title of the
book. Now, the title of the book
Weight Lifting is a Waste of Time and so is Cardio
.
Dr. John Jaquish: That’s right.
Michael: Now, when you came up with that title, did you have any of your peers
say, “Listen, Dr. John, this is a little bit controversial this title.”
Dr. John Jaquish: Well, I’m a controversial guy. And what I did to medical
device industry and bone density, 10 years ago I created a bone density
treatment device, it worked better than anything, than every clinical trial. And
I wasn’t particularly inflammatory because you got to be careful with medicine,
you can’t say like, “The drugs are terrible, don’t take those.” Because that’s
giving medical advice, but I would say this is a superior approach. And it’s a
superior approach because it is one of physical medicine instead of
pharmaceutical medicine.
Dr. John Jaquish: And ran that by a bunch of attorneys and they said, “Yeah, you
can say that. You won’t get in trouble for it.” And I noticed it was very
inflammatory, as medicine goes that’s a really inflammatory statement, but I
could back it up. I could have called this book The X3 Bar
method,
or A Superior Way To Train, but they all say stuff like that and they’re all
basically trash. They’re just the same repurposed programming that have all
kinds of errors, and just wrong stuff in them. And I do believe, now that I
understand what it takes to trigger muscular growth, that weight lifting is a
waste of time.
Dr. John Jaquish: And the reason most people do cardio is for weight loss, and
that’s the worst thing to do for weight loss. So, I have both of those things,
and the cardio thing that was proven 40 years ago, but the problem is the
fitness industry and fitness fans, they don’t read research, there’s no one
really in the fitness industry that can interpret research, or has been able to
communicate the findings of research studies. Now, there are sports scientists,
but they typically work with professional athletes, and what they don’t do is
end up getting their awards to make it into the gym. And so, people are doing
arcane things that don’t make sense, that are hurting their joints, they love
the banging of weights for ego reasons. I’ve seen people dislocate their
shoulders after a CrossFit movement, they’re done with the movement but they
want to throw the weight on the ground so they make a big noise, because they’re
important and they’re strong, and want everybody to know it.
Dr. John Jaquish: And it’s like, we see these things, and why are people
throwing weights? Well, it’s because you would never know they work out by
looking at them, so they need to beat their chest in a different way, and it’s
because the whole industry has failed. If you really look, who’s fit? Who looks
like a professional athlete, other than professional athletes? Almost nobody. I
know people work out for 20 years, they don’t look like anything. And the data
reflects that and reference a bunch of studies, one in six males over the age of
18 have used anabolic steroids in the United States, one in six males fit, not
even one in 600 would you notice are fit looking.
Dr. John Jaquish: I go into gyms and I look at the people, and the people that
are in the gym and the people that are at the pizza place next door don’t look a
whole lot different. So, why are people defending an industry that is probably
the most failed industry we’ve ever seen?
Michael: I have this comment where I tell people, and it’s a bit of a joke, I
say. “Here in Australia, for example, in Sydney and where I am now on the South
Coast in Wollongong, there are so many gyms, so many 24 hour gyms, so many
personal trainers, so many personal training studios, so many people on social
media with personal training apps, so many diets, whether it’s keto or
carnivore, yet we’re fatter than ever before.” Well, not you, you’ve got like
eight percent body fat, but the general population is obese, so something’s
[crosstalk 00:07:29] got to be broken.
Dr. John Jaquish: Well, I mean nutrition is terrible. In the trend towards… I
generally don’t like talking about politics, but I love using politics as an
example because everybody gets it. The trend towards preferring fake news,
people want the news that makes them feel good they don’t want the truth. And
that is obvious, we have learned that in the last four years. People can be
fairly sure they’re being lied to, but if it supports their existing political
idea they love it. And one of the more googled terms is, how do I lose weight
without changing my diet, in different variations of that. I mean, you’re obese
so clearly you eat too much and probably the wrong things, probably having your
hormonal system fighting you instead of helping you but, by all means, we’re not
going to change the diet.
Dr. John Jaquish: So, I saw all these things and I didn’t really want to get
into the diet in the title, because that is a huge part of what I’m talking
about, there’s enough controversy in that but I really wanted to make it crystal
clear that I was attacking standard fitness, because it is a complete failure.
How many people do cardio until they reach about 45 years old, and then it
brings tears to their eyes to get up out of a chair because they’re bone on bone
in their knees. Is that going to make them live longer? No, because now they
can’t move, or they need double knee replacements, and that’ll cause a whole
list of complications.
Dr. John Jaquish: So, is that really smart? Is that health? That doesn’t seem
like health to me. So, that’s why I picked that title. I thought, “Yes it’s a
hyperbolic title and it’s going to get a lot of attention, but it’s also
something that I believe it’s true.”
Michael: Can I ask you about the cardio thing, now for a very long time… I
mean, with this book you turn convention on its head. Like when we talk about
cardio, for example, I’ll go for a walk for one hour with my little boy and it’s
not a strenuous walk but it’s leisurely walk, and for years people have said to
me, “Cardio, it’s going to kill your muscle gain.” With cardio, is it eating
into the muscle? Because I think people think that you do cardio and you lose
fat.
Dr. John Jaquish: No, you do cardio and you lose muscle.
Michael: Yeah. So too much cardio-
Dr. John Jaquish: It upregulates cortisol, so too much is generally more than 20
minutes. Yeah, so you do more than 20 minutes you up regulate cortisol for a
substantial period of time. Now, the problem with this talk track is, people
always want to simplify everything, including their politics, into a sentence
fragment meme, which I think is contributing to the stupidity of the Western
World, because nothing is that simple except maybe the statement I’m making
right now. Don’t listen to fucking means. But, the desired simplicity in the
reality are so far apart. When you do cardio, you are sending signals to your
central nervous system that you want to redesign the body to be optimized for
that environment. That’s what adaptive response is, optimizing for your
environment.
Dr. John Jaquish: So, if you’re going to be a distance runner and, I will say,
if you want to be a distance runner you got to do cardio. For this reason, the
adaptations that go along with doing cardio optimize you for going great
distances with small amounts of fuel, so you immediately start losing bone
density. And it’s because of a cortisol upregulation and chronic cortisol
upregulation, not a brief period of time, cortisol goes up and down, you have a
cup of coffee you get out of bed, your cortisol goes up and goes down. So, and
it’s a stress hormone, so there’s… And if you’re in chronic stress, for
example, then goes up and stays up for a long period of time, so stressful
situations aren’t bad, chronic stresses are. So, cardio is a chronic stress, and
there where even the recovery from the cardio [inaudible 00:12:24] becomes a
chronic stress.
Dr. John Jaquish: And here’s why, the body’s trying to redesign itself so you’re
going to lose bone density, you’re going to have weaker bone, because just going
long distance is why you’re carrying around a heavy chassis, you need a
lightweight one. It’s going to metabolize muscle, so you’re going to lose muscle
mass, and it’s going to protect body fat, so it’s telling your body, if you’re
going to metabolize something you metabolize the muscle and not the body fast.
So, it’s actually giving people exactly the opposite of what they think they’re
getting.
Michael: Is it protecting the body fat as a way of survival?
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, for storage. So, you run 20 miles one day and you got to
run 50 miles the next day, the body’s like, “Well, we’re going to store some
extra fuel for that.” You’re training your body to store more fuel, to be fatter
not leaner. So, when you look at a lot of distance runners, they’re not obese
and big but they’re what you would call skinny fat. So, they have a very low
level of muscle mass but they’re still not lean, because they’re carrying around
extra tissues.
Michael: People told me-
Dr. John Jaquish: [inaudible 00:13:44].
Michael: Sorry, I was going to say, people always tell me about running, and I
don’t like running and I understand fully that people enjoy it and that’s
fantastic, but sometimes when you see a marathon runner, for example, or
somebody that enjoys running a lot, they’ll say, you ask them how old they are,
they’ll go. “I’m 35,” but really they look like- [crosstalk 00:14:03]
Dr. John Jaquish: And they look like they’re 70 or something. Just devastated,
crushed. That’s what cortisol does the skin.
Michael: That’s fascinating. But, then when you see people, for example, in the
gym, and I guess these are outliers, you see people in the gym and they’re
looking fit, they look built. Are they just a small minority of the population
that have got the genes to be able to look like that?
Dr. John Jaquish: You mean people who are doing a lot of cardio and they look
healthy?
Michael: No, I’m talking about people, when you see people in the gym and
they’re looking built, I mean, forget that they might be doing a little bit of
cardio, but they look built, they look like they’ve got muscle.
Dr. John Jaquish: Well, weight training is definitely the opposite stimulus. So,
weight training upregulates growth hormone and downregulates cortisol, so if
you’re going to compare one versus the other, cardio has very little upside.
Weight training has the same cardiac upside, this is important, the same cardiac
upside that cardiovascular training does, because your heart is being trained it
just has to pump more blood for more musculature, which is part of the reason
why there’s a myth that strength athletes don’t have any cardiovascular
endurance. No, they’re not good at running great distances because they’re
carrying around muscle that needs blood pumped to it. So, if I sprint up a
flight of stairs I’m going to be more out of breath and a guy who weighs 30 or
40 kilos less than me. And the reason-
Michael: I’ve heard people say that.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, and the reason is, when I… In fact, I’ll get more out
of breath than an obese person that is my same body weight, so I’m like 100,
what am I, like 110 kilos. And so you can take an obese person who’s 110 kilos
and we can both run up a flight of stairs, and I’ll probably be more out of
breath than him, because the muscles in my thighs are probably twice or three
times as big as his are. So, it’s like the difference between a V10 Lamborghini
engine versus a four cylinder Honda engine. The Lamborghini is not fuel
efficient, that’s not what it was made for.
Michael: I’ve heard people often talk about built guys, or built people, can’t
be too gender specific, somebody might get upset. That are too built, and you
often hear, “Ah no, they don’t have any cardiovascular fitness,” so that’s a
myth.
Dr. John Jaquish: Not true, it’s a myth. Their cardiovascular health is great,
their ability to run long distances is compromised, just like the distance
runner can’t pick up a heavy weight. Neither has anything to do with their
cardiovascular fitness, that person, the person who has been doing the distance
running has determined that they’re going to have the lowest amount of muscle
mass possible. So, of course, they can’t pick up anything heavy, they’ve been
sacrificing all their muscle.
Michael: Why is that so much disinformation at the moment when it comes to the
fitness industry? I mean, I know social media is responsible for that, there’s a
lot of conflicting ideas, but- [crosstalk 00:17:33]
Dr. John Jaquish: Well, social media is responsible for a lot of stupidity, but
I don’t blame social media for this, because before we had social media we were
still told cardio is for weight loss and strength is for building muscle, and
that was disproven 40 years ago. There’s research before I was born, that says
that cardio upregulates cortisol, and here’s what cortisol does, and this is
maybe not the best approach. Research is usually pretty pragmatic. So, no
emotional centered statements in it, but this may not be the best approach for
adipose tissue loss. That’s been stated for, sorry, it’s been stated for 40
years.
Dr. John Jaquish: In fact, I know some of the executives of the National
Academy, no not the National Academy Sports medicine… Various fitness
scientific journal organizations, health, sports medicine specific journals. And
they know that they are failing to communicate with the exercise industry,
completely, and they know they have always failed to communicate, but the
problem is the ability to read academic research and understand academic
research is just not simple, and human biology, just not simple. And so, this is
part of the reason why physicians around the world don’t really recommend going
and seeing the guy that works at the gym. Why? Because the guy that works in gym
doesn’t know anything.
Dr. John Jaquish: And most of what he knows is wrong, or was made up by somebody
else, and the poor gym employee, he doesn’t know. He doesn’t know he’s been
given all the wrong information, but he certainly believes it. So, it becomes, I
guess the expression is, a fool’s paradise, where everybody’s wrong and they’re
just satisfied in the fact that they’ve reached some sort of consensus. And, of
course, I’m like a heretic when I walk in and I’m like, “Yeah, everything you’re
doing is incorrect.” So, but I can back it up, I can prove it. And I get accused
all kinds of things, “Oh, all those studies are wrong, that you cite. All the
250 studies.” Okay, so some of them are the most cited studies in the field, but
they’re cited by other studies. So, researchers know what’s right and
researchers know what studies aren’t so good, or biased or whatever, in the
nutrition section I really had to go in there and explain how we do not cherry
pick research, “We’re going to give you the consensus based on a few different
premises in different sections of the book.”
Dr. John Jaquish: Like, the two greatest drivers of long life are being strong
and being lean. That has never been contested in research. So, very few-
[crosstalk 00:21:05]. Yeah, being strong and being lean. So, if strength is
associated with long life and being lean, then it’s cardio really the answer?
Absolutely not, because you get neither out of that. You’re not lean you’re
skinny fat, you’re certainly not strong, you’re sacrificing your strength.
Michael: It’s so true. Yeah, it’s definitely.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, and what’s great about this conversation is if somebody
has the patience to just listen to me, I mean, I might have an irritating voice,
I don’t know, but if they just listen for a little bit to one of these podcasts,
and they’re like, “Everything that guy is saying makes sense, maybe I ought to
read that book.”
Michael: Dude, I’ve been working out for 20 years, 25 years, I’m in my 40s now.
And I’ll go down to my garage and I’ll do chin ups, and I’ll do bench press, and
I’ll do some upright rows, and then I’ll do some deadlifts, and people will say
to me, they go, “You look fit, you’re working out, you seem to be looking good.”
I mean, I do do cardio, mostly lots of walks and occasionally I would ride my
mountain bike, but I’ve stopped putting on muscle. And I know that you put on
muscle in your 40s, I think in the first two years you put on, how many, it was
like-
Dr. John Jaquish: 45 pounds.
Michael: … 45 pounds of muscle, which is… What does that equate to, it’s
like 18 kilos.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah.
Michael: Yeah, in the first two years. So, I’ve obviously plateaued and
something is not happening, so is it still beneficial for me, forgetting about
your X3 system
we’ll talk about that in a sec. Can I put on muscle
going to the gym and doing those traditional lifting workouts?
Dr. John Jaquish: Probably not, they’re incredibly inefficient. Yeah, and
another reason I get a lot of hate is that the book is largely about
X3 Bar
, which if you read the description of what the book is about,
it’s really about the story of X3 Bar
, why it was developed and why
it’s so superior. And someone if so inclined to learn about that then they
should pick up the book, and then all the negative reviews are, “Oh, this is
just a big commercial for X3 Bar
.” No, it’s not, it’s a
documentation of why. And the why is, if you understand it will change your
training completely. Will you go out and get an X3 Bar
? Yeah
probably, because then I own all the patents and all the countries. So, sorry, I
run a business, but I’m not duping anyone it is absolutely amazing once somebody
gets a month or two behind them with X3 Bar
usage, they never go
back. [crosstalk 00:24:01] superior.
Michael: You do have a lot of detractors, and what I like about watching you-
Dr. John Jaquish: Not credible ones.
Michael: Sorry?
Dr. John Jaquish: Not credible ones.
Michael: No, I know.
Dr. John Jaquish: I have a lot of kicking and screaming children who are mostly
just jealous of financial success that I’m having. I mean, everybody has that,
everyone who is really make something happen.
Michael: Yeah, absolutely. Because, I mean, social media breeds that, it’s easy
for somebody to get on the computer and say, “oh, this is a crock of shit, or
whatever, and this guy has no credibility.” But, how tall are you, like six foot
or something.
Dr. John Jaquish: Six foot, yeah.
Michael: Yeah, and what’s your body fat percentage?
Dr. John Jaquish: Last test I took it was eight percent.
Michael: And you don’t have-
Dr. John Jaquish: Probably a bit lower now.
Michael: And you’re not doing any type of traditional lifting in the gym.
Dr. John Jaquish: No.
Michael: You use the X3 Bar
.
Dr. John Jaquish: Only.
Michael: Yeah, that’s a pretty convincing argument. And, again, I’m not a
personal fitness guy, I don’t know anything about the science.
Dr. John Jaquish: Well, I put a chapter in the book about how I needed to make
myself the spokesperson, because if I gave it to somebody who’s already
athletic, because I wasn’t in shape before I started this, this is more of a
science project to me than it was a passion for lifting. I mean, do I like
lifting? Yeah, I do, I always did, never really got much out of it. I was
stronger than most people, I played division one rugby in university, and so it
was time. But, I thought, “What if I have the data, not really what if I knew I
had the data that proved that weight lifting was a lousy approach, and I had a
better one.” So, let’s just give it a shot.
Dr. John Jaquish: So, the excitement for the project had more to do with my
excitement for science, because otherwise I could’ve just built the prototype
and got great results. Part of my mind was like, “Why rock the boat? I’m already
making millions of dollars on my bone density technology, so who cares?” I’ll
build a prototype, I’ll put on 45 pounds of muscle, everybody will just think,
“Wow, that guy was just born with a Thor’s hammer in his hand,” and I’ll be
like, “Yeah.” But, it works so well. And this is one of the… So, my co-author,
and he’s one of my best friends, Henry Alkire.
Dr. John Jaquish: He was more interested in cycling and just the entertainment
type exercise, just going out and doing hikes, and camping, riding his bike, and
never gave a shit about being muscular, but if you said, “Hey, would you like to
add 10 pounds of muscle and 10 pounds less body fat?” He would’ve gone, “Yeah,
that sounds great.” So I built the prototype, and we’re working together and he
says, we had a couple of them we were going to ship them to some very impromptu
people, like Dave Asprey is one of the first few people who use
X3 Bar
. Dave Asprey had an X3 Bar
like a year before it
came out. And so. Henry says, “Can we make an extra one, because I’d like to use
it. I’d use that every day.” And I was like, “Yeah, absolutely.”
Dr. John Jaquish: And I knew the second he said that, this guy was never in any
particular strength training demographic, but he saw it working with me, he
understood the science because he’s an engineers, he’s a very scientific guy.
But, if he wanted one, then the market isn’t the strength training market, the
market is the intelligent executive. And I can get a scientific message through
to them, and coincidentally I have been talking to a couple different fitness
companies that were like, “You want to make a scientific proposal to the fitness
audience? No chance, don’t even try it. The fitness audience is outrageously
unintelligent.” And they mean like the typical gym goer. And they can’t
understand anything, they can’t even understand the words they’re using. A lot
of people who are writing articles and training other people are using words
they can’t infer, and so just the industry is a nightmare and I just decided to
go around the industry. “Okay, well then my demographic will be smart people not
fitness people.”
Michael: I want to talk about the precursor to the X3 Bar
, then
we’ll talk about the variable resistance. The precursor was the OsteoStrong
which you mentioned before. So, you started that, I think, it was that your mum
had osteoporosis.
Dr. John Jaquish: That’s right.
Michael: Yeah, and then, so that was the precursor, but from my understanding
you’ve got OsteoStrong here in Australia too don’t you?
Dr. John Jaquish: That’s right.
Michael: Yeah, you do.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, we’re in…
Michael: I think you’re in Melbourne.
Dr. John Jaquish: I can’t remember all the locations.
Michael: No, I did some research, I think you’re in-
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, Hawthorne area [inaudible 00:29:49].
Michael: Yeah, I think you’re in Sydney too.
Dr. John Jaquish: I think so too.
Michael: Yeah, and you’ve partnered up with the great Tony Robbins, right?
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah.
Michael: I mean, he’s a reputable dude.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yes, he is.
Michael: It’s probably an understatement. So, he would have-
Dr. John Jaquish: He wrote the foreword of my next book.
Michael: After Weight Lifting is a Waste of Time
?
Dr. John Jaquish: Well, I actually wrote a book before Weight Lifting is a Waste
of Time, and it just hasn’t come out yet.
Michael: Can you reveal, what the name of that book?
Dr. John Jaquish: It’s called
Unbreakable
.
Michael: And he’s written the foreword to that book?
Dr. John Jaquish: Yes.
Michael: Yeah, so Tony Robbins is not a guy that associates himself with just
degenerates, he’s a smart guy. So, he’s a partner with you and OsteoStrong.
Dr. John Jaquish: That’s right.
Michael: And that was the precursor to this X3 Bar
, and your
mother’s background of osteoporosis?
Dr. John Jaquish: That’s right, yeah.
Michael: And you were motivated-
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, very different effects. You won’t get X3 Bar
to trigger much bone growth. Bone needs extremely high forces, in the hip joint
you need to go over 4.2 multiples of body weight, or you’re doing nothing. So,
when somebody says-
Michael: What does that exactly mean, 4.2?
Dr. John Jaquish: Multiply your body weight by 4.2.
Michael: Oh, right. Oh, wow.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah. Yeah, nobody exercises with that. So, when somebody
says, “Oh, yeah, I work out to avoid osteoporosis.” It depends, if I look at my
watch and I got 30 minutes I’ll be like, “Let me fix your wang here.” And I tell
him like, “Yeah, it’s not doing anything. Here’s why, and here are the research
studies you want to look at.” and I had this conversation with, used to be 20
physicians a day, now it’s probably more like 20 a week, because [inaudible
00:31:54] caught on and they know about it, and they’re prescribing now. But,
just grossly misinformed.
Dr. John Jaquish: It was one of those things, and I got physicians to really
question the research that they had been citing. I would say, “look, every
recommendation that you give Has a dosage associated with it. what do you what
do you do for cardiovascular health?” Well they would say, “Go and do
cardiovascular exercise, and you want to get to target heart rate for this
amount of time.” Okay, well, forget about the merits of that, it did have the
effect on the cardiovascular system in isolation, that they were looking for.
So, a dosage is associated with the recommendation, it’s sort of like,
“Aspirin’s good for headaches.” “Well, five milligrams or 5,000?” Well, five
milligrams will nothing, 5,000 will probably kill you. But, 350 milligrams,
that’s a good dosage. That’s right there.
Dr. John Jaquish: So they ran tests, and they ran tests with animals and compare
the body weights, and they got to that 350 milligrams because they want to
figure out, “What is the minimum amount of this tree bark extract called
aspirin, that is going to reduce the pain and swelling in someone’s head?” And
that’s what it was, 350. And so, I would say to these doctors, “You’re telling
people go out and do a resistance exercise, how much? Holding a bottle of wine
is more resistance than holding a glass of wine, so maybe we should just drink
from the bottle. That’s resistance.” Of course they’re going to go, “Well, yeah.
Okay, I mean, you’re being funny here.” And I’m like, “But am I? How do people
interpret what you say by resistance? Are they holding two kilogram weights and
just doing bicep curls where they use more strength to put their shirt on in the
morning. That’s not doing anything, you’re just wasting their time. So, why
don’t we figure out what the effective dose response is? And then once you
figure that out you realize there’s no exercise that comes anywhere near it.”
Dr. John Jaquish: So, that wasn’t the defining moment of the technology, that
was a defining moment of my talk track, of how I was going to explain this to
the medical world, because that’s hard. Developing something profound, there’s a
lot of things that can be developed that would be helpful to humanity, but how
do you explain it to people? How are people going to, in a minute or in a 15
second social media advertisement, are they going to go, “That’s what I need,
I’ve been looking for that my whole life.” That’s a lot harder.
Michael: Oh, it’s way harder. When I look at the X3 Bar
and I look
at people using it online, and I look at your videos of you executing the
exercises, to me, somebody that’s trained for a long time, it’s counterintuitive
because it seems, from an outsider’s perspective looking at a video, it looks
really fucking simple, it looks-
Dr. John Jaquish: It’s elegant, it is a very simple thing. And people get even
more angry when they’re like, “Well, where are you going to go with this? This
is obviously phase one, you’re going to have a camber bar, you’re going to have
this, and this, and this, and you’re going to…” They want to overcomplicate
exercise industry tends to do, and I say, “No, no, no, no, no. All those
machines that you’ve been using, they were created so the creator of the machine
could sell machines, not because you need them, X3 Bar
is it. Is it
the end all be all? Yeah, it is. You don’t really need anything else. If your
wrists feel awkward being totally supinated or totally protonated, you can get
glow grips. Well those are like $2. Just snap them right on the bar and then
you can have a more neutral grip.”
Dr. John Jaquish: So, I don’t see this obsession for upgrades and modifications
that people have. You may need a new iPhone every year or two years, because
they’ve upgraded it and, “Oh my God, it’s going to change your life again.”
Which may or may not be true. For me, it usually is true because I’m always on
the go, so I do use my smartphone to its full potential, but what does the human
body need and is that ever going to change? The answer is, it doesn’t need much,
it needs very high forces. And those forces need to be placed strategically on
the body, not grossly very strategic. If you load the body where the body is
stronger, you’re going to get a much more profound level of exhaustion, both
myofibril exhaustion and sarcoplasmic exhaustion, and you’re going to have a
much more profound response. And triple, hence the product’s called
X3 Bar
.
Michael: X3 Bar
. ANd is that where the difference is between this
system? We’re talking, when you’re doing a bench press, you’re not getting the
variable tension like you are with the X3 Bar
.
Dr. John Jaquish: You’re not getting any variable tension. If you’re benching
100 kilos it’s 100 kilos here, it’s 100 kilos here, and it’s 100 kilos here.
Michael: Right, but when you’re doing the bench, when you’re halfway through the
bench. Yeah, I guess it’s still 120 kilos, but doesn’t it get harder?
Dr. John Jaquish: No, it gets easier as you extend your arm, because you have
more mechanical leverage and you’re engaging more muscle tissue. Those two
things come on and same time, but the point of the X3 Bar
is, I can
hold X amount of weight at the bottom, I can hold seven X at the top, why don’t
we train accordingly? Because once that, holding a static weight doesn’t make
sense, because you have drastic different capabilities. I mean, why do cars have
gears? Because a one gear car won’t go very far, but what you need when you’re
starting off is very different than what happens when you’re on the expressway.
Michael: All right, so with the X3 Bar
that tension at the top is
where it’s at its most powerful.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, so I use about 320 kilos at the top, about 150 kilos in
the middle, and 50 kilos at the bottom.
Michael: Yeah, and you’re straining at that whole time, I guess when you’re
doing a bench press, I’m trying to…
Dr. John Jaquish: You only strain at the bottom.
Michael: That’s right. Yeah, all right. And at the top-
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, and no matter how tired you are, being out of breath
even when you’re at the top, doesn’t mean you’re taxing the bottom- [crosstalk
00:39:24]
Michael: Because you hold it.
Dr. John Jaquish: … doesn’t mean you’re taxing the target muscle.
Michael: You hold it.
Dr. John Jaquish: Oh, and people lockout at the top which is even worse, because
they’re actually disengaging the muscle, denying the body any hypoxic effect,
which is complicated I won’t get into that, but hypoxia is something you want,
and you don’t want it with blood flow restriction bands you want it with your
own physiology, because there’s no limits to that. You are basically giving the
body a signal where you’re turning the muscle on and then turning it off, and
then turning it on turning off, turning it on turning it off. Is that intensity?
No, you’re basically resting in the middle, which cakes away, it starts
replacing blood as you relax and you lockout at the top, and it’s a less intense
even sarcoplasmic experience. So, you have less ATP glycogen and creatine
phosphate coming in to replace what was there plus more, you won’t have that
effect.
Michael: Yeah. All right, I understand, now I’m starting to understand the fact,
because when I do it bench press I can get 100, I do maybe 90 kilos, but I am
resting at the top. So, at that position I’m not getting the benefit of the
workout, when I hold it- [crosstalk 00:40:46]. Right, with the
X3 Bar
you’re getting that workout consistently.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, you can’t avoid it. You’re getting it.
Michael: Can you briefly just explain to me what hypoxia is, is that the lack of
oxygen or is it the opposite?
Dr. John Jaquish: Well, it’s often described as the lack of blood flow or
trapping blood in a certain area of the body [inaudible 00:41:15]. Your own
physiology does this when you apply constant tension, so if I don’t lockout at
the top of bench press and don’t rest at the bottom, continue to go through a
relatively full range of motion, then I’m keeping the blood that’s in the muscle
there, and then I’m exhausting the fuel system, the ATP, the glycogen, and the
creatine phosphate, the three fuels. And they become super exhausted, more so
than if blood is constantly flowing in, because if you constantly have a stream
of new fuels do you truly ever exhaust? Not really.
Dr. John Jaquish: So, you just absolutely complete exhaustion. But, then
cardiovascular system sees muscle mass missing because there’s no return blood
flow from activity. So, and this is really important, myostatin which is a
protein that naturally occurs in the body, the more Myostatin you have the less
muscle you’re allowed to grow. It’s turned down. So, you downregulate myostatin
which means your body is allowing you to gain more musculature. And that’s
that’s a big deal.
Michael: All right, I get that.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, it’s like a change of genetic retention. Now that we
know this.
Michael: I guess you’ve already answered this question because of the intensity
of the X3 Bar
, but you’re doing 15 minute workouts. For anybody in
the fitness industry, and not even if you’re not in the fitness industry, for me
that does 45 minute workouts or an hour workouts or an hour workout, I look at
that and say, “How is that even possible?” And I guess it’s because you’re
getting that intensity.
Dr. John Jaquish: It’s about the fatigue, time’s got nothing to do with it. And
then people, there’s a lot of principles that people think are infallible, and I
would say a lot of these principles that people hold close to them are just out
of date. What about time under tension or what about progressive resistance?
Progressive resistance is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard about in
life, because if people talk about all the time, “Well, my method is progressive
resistance.” Progressive resistance is a result not a method, like being rich is
not anybody’s job you got to do something to build wealth, whether you’re a
professional athlete or you’re a professional investor, whatever. The wealth
comes from somewhere. So, saying you do progressive resistance is like saying,
“I just get money, or I’m rich, that’s my job.” Okay, it’s not a job, no You’re
an idiot. That’s what’s going on, it doesn’t make any sense at all.
Dr. John Jaquish: And so, the idea that in progressive resistance is, you’re
able to handle the same amount of repetitions, or maybe one more repetition
while slightly incrementally adding just a tiny bit of weight. It’s like, that’s
the same thing as just being able to do more repetitions with the same weight.
There’s no difference there. So, progressive resistance is just another, it’s
just a fancy nonsensical way of saying, “Getting stronger.” Getting stronger is
not your workout program, it is the result of your workout program. So, I hear
this all the time, they’re like, “What about progressive resistance?” I’m like,
“What about it? It’s nonsense.” Time under tension is another thing I constantly
hear and, yeah, except not at all, because time under tension, like I said,
people lockout on top of the bench press, and they got some guy with a stopwatch
standing there and, “Oh, you held the weight a lot longer.” No, you disengaged
the weight and rested."
Dr. John Jaquish: So, time under tension is not like time under variable tension
while using constant tension. Now, all of a sudden, it’s not a cool three word
phrase, so it’s not a sexist, but also time under tension is just an outdated
philosophy now that we know what a variable resistance can do.
Michael: Yeah, it makes sense, again, I’m not a scientific person, but I’m
reading about variable resistance, and if the aim is to get that absolute
maximum benefit, it makes sense. Are you working with, I read somewhere you’re
working with a number of NFL players.
Dr. John Jaquish: That’s right.
Michael: Right, so-
Dr. John Jaquish: Over 10 of them now.
Michael: All right, so NFL players, from what I understand, they don’t do… You
don’t see NFL players in the gym just doing ankles, they do strength stuff,
they’re always doing strength stuff.
Dr. John Jaquish: Well, this is where sports scientists and fitness trainers,
the sport scientist know that what people do in the gym is bad. And they don’t
do most of that stuff. I see every day somebody saying, “Everybody knows that
NFL players do one rep maximums on a regular basis.” Absolutely wrong,
absolutely false, they would never do so. A one rep maximum would risk their
entire career, they would never do that. In fact, if one of them even attempted
it in front of a strength coach, they’d probably be in trouble because it would
be completely unnecessary risk. And, also, you don’t get stronger from doing one
rep maximums. But everybody’s an expert on the internet, right.
Dr. John Jaquish: It amazes me how many people that I had no idea we’re experts
on pathogens and viruses, all of a sudden. Oh God, people who have never taken a
scientific course in their life are just absolute experts on CORONA virus.
Michael: Yeah, everyone’s an expert on CORONA virus.
Dr. John Jaquish: Then they ask me for validation and I’m like, I say it how it
is. I lost some friends. It’s okay, they weren’t too smart anyway. So, I’m not
going to miss them too much, but they were like, “Tell all our friends that the
masks are really important.” And I’m like, “They’re not. They just make people
feel better. What do you want? I’m sorry…”
Michael: You don’t believe the masks are beneficial?
Dr. John Jaquish: They’re not doing what people are thinking. The steam from
your exhale will carry CORONA virus. Now, it just so happens that CORONA virus
is a pretty weak virus, and not a lot of people really get it unless they have a
compromised cardio respiratory system based on cellular metabolism. So,
basically you’re diabetic. So, the masks are not stopping much. And, also, in a
hospital environment the masks are worn to keep from actually putting
particulate matter in an open surgical wound. Like, accidentally coughing or
sneezing and putting mucus into somebody, or when your dentist is cleaning your
teeth they wear a mask to keep coughing in your mouth. Why? but, as soon as
they’re done doing that they take the mask off and have a conversation with you.
Dr. John Jaquish: It’s not because you’re unsanitary, it’s because that’s not
what the mask is ever for. So, this gross overreaction, and I think it mostly
has to do with just how stupid people will get with fear. Fear is obviously the
greatest motivator, people will throw their freedom right in the trash when
they’re fearful. And are masks that big of a deal? Does it ruined my life that I
have to wear a mask when I go into a grocery store? No, but I don’t I don’t like
where it’s going.
Michael: The US is a very polarized place at the moment, it' crazy, man.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, it is. And today was a rough day, we lost the Supreme
Court Justice today.
Michael: I just saw that on the news.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, and that’s going to supercharge the anger and fury
around the election, and the irony of that particular person is, I mean, on
certain issues she was liberal and on others she wasn’t, but you never heard
about those, you only hear about the liberal ones. So, she’s held up as this
champion for a lot of things, which she was a champion for, but if you asked her
about socialism or taxes, she would be like, “No, people should earn money and
keep it invested, and start companies, and hire people. That’s that’s how you
say get rid of poverty.”
Dr. John Jaquish: The press never covered that part. But, it’s a shame because
now immediately people took to the internet and started insulting each other,
instead of just saying, “A woman who dedicated her life to freedom in the United
States, died and that’s really too bad.”
Michael: Here in Australia we look at what’s going on in the States and it’s
almost like people talk about civil war again, like it’s crazy, dude. It’s
amazing.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, it’s a shame. Well, our news media has a lot of control
with that fear that I was talking about. And you study Frederick Goebbels during
World War Two, he was the architect of the whole war. What was he? He was a news
guy in Germany. He was the propaganda guy, but he got the citizens of his
country just terrified that other countries were going to attack, that certain
groups in their own population were dedicated to their destruction, and people,
like I said, they will throw their freedoms in the trash when they’re fearful.
And I think that’s going to be the next big political fight, it’ll just be a
series of things we’re told to make us absolutely terrified. And it’s also
seemingly always coming from one political side, do you ever notice that? It’s
always like the methane from meat, cows are creating methane and that’s going to
cause global warming, the ice caps are going to melt and we’re all going to die
in a big flood. Because a cow is-
Michael: Yeah, I know.
Dr. John Jaquish: And that is coming from the same side as, if you don’t wear a
mask you’re a murderer, and if you don’t immediately admit that all people of a
certain race have caused all the problems in the world, then you’re a bigot,
like, “Wait a minute, what?” I don’t have to… Forcing people to admit guilt
for something that happened generations ago, why don’t we just start
incarcerating people for things that their parents did?
Michael: Yeah, it’s the same thing. Look, I think people need to watch The
Social Dilemma on Netflix, which is a documentary which I watched- [crosstalk
00:54:10]
Dr. John Jaquish: I’ve not seeing that, I really want to.
Michael: Yeah, dude, you need to watch it and, I mean, I’m a very open person, I
like to listen to people like you even though other people might be detractors.
I’m not interested in that, I like to have a conversation with somebody that’s
doing something, and you listen and you take that on board. And with The Social
Dilemma, what’s happening with social media I think is a really scary thing how
it’s polarizing people, how we’re getting fed this stuff, how people are in
their social media little confirmation biases little groups, it’s fucking
terrible. I don’t know what the hell is going to happen. And I just saw a story
today that Donald Trump is banning TikTok over the next 24 hours in the US too.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, that has more to do with-
Michael: Security.
Dr. John Jaquish: … sort of spyware from a foreign actor that’s not always our
friend. So, that happens.
Michael: Yeah, absolutely. I just wanted to go back and talk about the
X3 Bar
, because I like doing podcasts, but sometimes talking for two
hours which I could easily do with you. I could easily do. I wanted to talk
about a couple of things, the macronutrients that you talk about, are your fats,
protein, carbohydrates, Forget about it it’s not important.
Dr. John Jaquish: I don’t quite say that, I say they’re- [crosstalk 00:55:51]
Michael: Oh, no, [crosstalk 00:55:51] sorry.
Dr. John Jaquish: They’re only two macronutrients, there’s only protein, fat.
Carbohydrates no longer meet the required definitions for being a macronutrient,
they’re not a macronutrient.
Michael: All right.
Dr. John Jaquish: Not a nutrient at all.
Michael: All right, so are they beneficial in any way?
Dr. John Jaquish: So, the answer for health and survival, for thriving just in
life is no, but there are some ways to apply carbohydrates strategically, where
you can enhance muscle growth, basically based on muscle hydration that you can
achieve with carbohydrates. So, that’s obviously if you’ve [inaudible 00:56:43].
If you’re a distance runner and, like I said, cardio is not the approach if you
want to lose body fat, but if you want to be a distance runner that’s still a
thing. And you can do that, don’t expect to have a healthy looking physique or
you don’t expect to live any longer, as [inaudible 00:57:01], but you can still
do that in… Look at Zach Bitters, just broke the world record with 100 mile
run.
Michael: I saw that, yeah.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, he’s a carnivore, he doesn’t eat any carbohydrates
unless he is in the midst of a run. So, he applies them based on an advantage
that he can get when needed, but are they part of his program? Are they truly a
nutrient? Are they building the body back better? Not really, they’re just
providing some hydration and delivery of, in his case not in my case the way I
apply them. And I cover that in the book in the hyperplasia protocol, whereas I
get trolled for this is like, “Well, this Dr. J guy he’s such a jerk because he
says carbohydrates have no value, and then he talks about how he uses
carbohydrates.” No, I explain it very clearly, “This is written by clowns who
just want one insult, and obviously have no desire to understand anything.”
Dr. John Jaquish: Carbohydrates have no value. However, you can apply them in a
very strategic way- … and how you added them in a very temporary window. I got
a half an hour, after I do an X3 Bar
workout, where I can apply
carbohydrates strategically. If I miss that window no carbohydrates.
Michael: Forget about it.
Dr. John Jaquish: And I also stack the carbohydrates with vasodilation. So, I’ll
take Epimedium, which is an herb, or you want to get really aggressive about it
you can take [solidifil 00:58:57] or a Cialis or Viagra, to open up the blood
ways. And you have vasodilation, so your blood vessels get bigger, and are
allowing more blood flow for delivery of that extra hydration in the muscles.
And so, you can, and I stack these things together for the hyperplasia protocol,
and I tell people, “You can use epimedium, you can use glycerol, which are two
widely available things you can get a health food store, or you can go the
pharmaceutical route and use a Viagra or Cialis.”
Michael: Let’s talk about your eating protocol, which is something which is
increasingly fascinating to me. I did the intermittent fasting thing, and you
eat once every two days, is it or something?
Dr. John Jaquish: Well, there’s different fasting protocols I follow, right now
I’m doing 72 hours fasted and then I’m eating rest of the week.
Michael: What, 72?
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, so three days with no food.
Michael: Dude, and are you using the X3 Bar
during this time?
Dr. John Jaquish: Yes. Not doing the hyperplasia protocol, obviously.
Michael: Yeah. All right, so 72 hours. And then when you eat, how many calories
would you consume in that sitting?
Dr. John Jaquish: So, I try to get right at the target. You don’t make up for
three days of no eating by eating three days worth of food.
Michael: No, yeah.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, and I hear that all the time, I even hear people
misquoting me saying that’s what I do, and I’m like, “Where’d you get that?” No,
that would be so counterproductive, that would just make you sick. My basal
metabolic rate plus activity is like 3300 calories a day, I’m not going to eat
10,000 calories in a day, not happening. So, because that’d be three days of
food. So, what I do, I get th… How do I explain this? I want a serious benefit
from a fasted period. I want to be completely depleted. And then when you start
eating again, your growth is enhanced, and I describe it as it has been seen in
a study that was done pretty recently, which was actually an anabolic
acceleration. When a body’s depleted for a period of time, it will grow much
more aggressively than if you’re constantly in an anabolic state.
Michael: Wow.
Dr. John Jaquish: So, you go from anabolic to fasted which is not catabolic,
because your growth hormone goes very high and protects you, it’s an
anti-catabolic change that the body makes by upregulating the growth hormone.
And, then when you go back to eating you have very aggressive growth.
Michael: It’s crazy.
Dr. John Jaquish: It’s great. Yeah, and they prove this with people that weren’t
even exercising at all, and they put on like 2.2 kilos of muscle. Neither the
control group nor the test group, and it was great because I said to Henry, I
said, “Hey, I want you to find a study that shows that people who did multiple
fasting periods, might be a slightly longer faster period, put on muscle in an
unexplained way, and no more so than in the control group that didn’t fast.” And
the reason I asked him to do this was because I was noticing a really aggressive
growth. I’m really attuned with my body, so when I put on an ounce of muscle I
know it. I’m like, “Okay.” I wake up in the morning and take some measurements,
look in the mirror and I’m like, “My traps are bigger, my deltoids are bigger,
my pecs are bigger.”
Dr. John Jaquish: I can tell. And, I mean, it might just be, we’re talking half
a millimeter, but I can tell. So, this accelerated growth rebound, I said to
Henry what I wanted out of the study, and I said, “This will not be in any
abstract, you’re going to have to read the discussion section, because none of
these studies are looking at musculature, but they are all taking body
composition.” And I said, “You will find what I’m describing.” And he says,
“Man, do you know how specific of a question you’re asking? There’s no way.” And
I said, “I think it’s out there, I really do. I know it’s specific, and I know
nobody is looking for it, but you’re going to see you’re going to find, one of
these studies is going to say, a strange occurrence happened during the study,
the group that was fasted ended up gaining muscle for no reason whatsoever that
we can identify.”
Dr. John Jaquish: And almost word for word what I described based on my theory,
was out there. And, of course, the researchers had no idea why. And they said
like, word for word what I said and I’m like, “Awesome, that’s our key
reference.” And it was a great study, big sample size, lot of professors
involved, it was awesome.
Michael: I’ll be I’ll be trying that. What about if you’re in a calorie deficit
as opposed to fasting, is that catabolic to [crosstalk 01:04:56]?
Dr. John Jaquish: Yes. It is because your body’s trying to readjust to the lower
level of calories, it’s trying to find a homeostasis. So, it’s like, “Okay, the
new homeostasis is we’re eating 500 calories less, then we got to upregulate
cortisol, and we have to catabolise musculature so we don’t need that many
calories. But, if you have nothing the body doesn’t try and look for new
homeostasis because it knows nothing is not the plan going forward, nothing is
temporary.
Michael: That’s fascinating.
Dr. John Jaquish: But it makes perfect sense. Your body’s not going to go, “Oh,
the new homeostasis is just eating nothing.”
Michael: Yes, that’s right.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, you’re obviously going to eat or die. So, gotta stay
strong, because we’re going to probably have a higher chance of eating even if
we’re intermittently eating. As opposed to weakening the body so maybe you can’t
catch your next meal, that will not be a survival mechanism.
Michael: I mean, if you want to lose weight you go into a calorie deficit, but
you’re also going to lose the weight.
Dr. John Jaquish: I wouldn’t.
Michael: You wouldn’t?
Dr. John Jaquish: No, I would go through time restricted eating periods. I’d
have periods of time… Fasting and caloric deficit are two very different
things.
Michael: No, I know.
Dr. John Jaquish: One, the body is looking for homeostasis. The other one, that
process is not happening.
Michael: All right. No, but I’m saying, people now in this fitness climate,
they’re wanting to lose weight, so they just restrict their calories, because
they believe that’s the best way to do it.
Dr. John Jaquish: Right, and you do lose body fat- [crosstalk 01:06:45].
Michael: Yeah, you do.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, but that’s also why people rebound so badly when they up
their calories back to a maintenance level, they start aggressively putting on
body fat. And it’s because the body changed what basal metabolic rate was, it
lost a lot of muscle and probably maintained more body fat than they think that
was maintained. It’s sort of like the runner problem, it’s a cortisol problem.
Michael: Do you eat ice cream?
Dr. John Jaquish: No.
Michael: You don’t need ice cream, at all?
Dr. John Jaquish: No.
Michael: Don’t you have a tendency to have something which is pleasurable like
that like? Do you like chocolate?
Dr. John Jaquish: I’m a pain in the ass. Ask any girl I’ve ever dated, she’s
like, “Oh, going to dinner that guy sucks.”
Michael: Hold on, what about wine?
Dr. John Jaquish: There’s very little calories in it, and I wouldn’t do a light
fruity Chardonnay, but I would do Cabernet. Yeah, I mean, but the tannins give
me a headache, I’m not a wine guy.
Michael: All right, what- [crosstalk 01:08:03]
Dr. John Jaquish: That little wine barrel right there-
Michael: I just see it there in the background.
Dr. John Jaquish: That’s where I keep my X3 Bar
. Seriously, the top
is open, I just put my X3 Bar
in there-
Michael: Oh, really?
Dr. John Jaquish: … and all the bands, yeah.
Michael: What about pizza?
Dr. John Jaquish: No, pizza’s dog shit. I don’t like pizza. If somebody were to
do the hyperplasia protocol, now I recommend white rice because there’s very
little oxalate in that. if somebody wanted to, I don’t know why you would want
to, I’m kidding I know why people would want to. If they wanted to have some
kind of simple carbohydrate, because you actually want simple carbohydrates and
hyperplasia protocol. You want something that the body is going to metabolize
fast, so you don’t want to eat like a bunch of salad because that takes a long
time to metabolize. So, instead of the rice if you had a slice of pizza or
three, would that work? Yeah, it would.
Dr. John Jaquish: Now, there’s some inflammatories that are going to come along
with that, but is it the worst thing in the world? I don’t know, I don’t think
so. So, and I noticed that a lot of the people who have adopted the hyperplasia
protocol, they’re like, “This is what I was missing. I can actually apply simple
carbohydrates in a way where it does me a favor instead it makes me fat.” And
you got to be careful though, you should really only between .5 and .7 grams per
pound of body weight. So, if I just cut my body weight in half, so 240 pounds,
120 grams of carbohydrates, that’s not a lot. The average size of pizza may be
30 or 40, depending on how big it is, so I can have a couple slices of pizza. I
happen to love pizza like, that wasn’t my thing where it was like, “Oh god, I
love the great shape I’m in but I really miss pizza.” No, I’m not like that. I’m
so disciplined also-
Michael: No, yeah I can tell.
Dr. John Jaquish: People say all kinds of stupid stuff to me, “This guy’s
obviously on steroids.” “No, this guy obviously doesn’t eat like an unsupervised
child like you.” That’s my response to a lot of these trolls, it’s like “The
reason you’re fat and have baby arms is because you have no discipline.”
Michael: Yeah, no, it’s true.
Dr. John Jaquish: “Also your workout sucks and you don’t understand nutrition.”
But, I mean, a lot of these guys, they won’t be disciplined and then they’re mad
when somebody else gets great results. Well, I can tell you, drugs or not, if
somebody’s lean they’re not eating pizza.
Michael: No, I know. I know- [crosstalk 01:11:16]
Dr. John Jaquish: Or they’re having it in such a minuscule way, there’s a guy on
the user’s group, he’s a chiropractor, His name’s John, he’s great guy. But, he
eats pizza, but he has like one slice maybe two days a week or something like
that, and the takeaway for the people who like fake news, because it supports
what they already believe in, people who like fake diet advice too. So, they see
that and they go, “Well, this guy eats pizza, I’m going to keep eating pizza.”
And, of course, these people are obese and they continue to be obese, because
their dinner is pizza.
Michael: Yeah, I know. It’s a crazy world in which we’re living in 2020, you’d
think that would be getting smarter but, fuck, I think we’re getting dumber.
Dr. John Jaquish: Oh, we’re getting dumber for sure.
Michael: It’s a big problem.
Dr. John Jaquish: My favorite study, this is probably other than everybody
should read the book, which is the takeaway I want everybody to have. This is
great cocktail party kind research. My favorite study is actually not about
physical medicine, it’s not about sports science at all. It’s about psychology
in its elements, and it’s called The Dunning Kruger Study. Have you heard of
this?
Michael: Vaguely.
Dr. John Jaquish: The Dunning Kruger Study in 1986, compared people’s competence
with their ability to gauge their own competence. So, the highly intelligent
people, the highly competent people would have a performance level here and they
would always underestimate the performance level slightly, because they had
doubts. They know what they know and they know what they don’t know.
Michael: That’s a good way to be.
Dr. John Jaquish: Well, it’s a rule genetics are playing in us, because some
people just, they just don’t have the marbles in their head. So, but being able
to understand what you don’t know, and the problem is the less intelligent
people don’t know what they don’t know. So, they think they know everything. And
so, the people at the bottom of the intelligence scale believe they were the
best performers. This is why the bottom 12 percentile group of intelligence is
not allowed in the United States military, because these are the people who will
shoot themselves or their fellow troops, they will crash [crosstalk 01:13:53]
vehicles. Yeah, the bottom 12% are basically the only fit to hold a mop. And
guess who the self appointed experts are on the internet?
Michael: Those people.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yes, That’s right. Don’t listen to the people who are giving
advice on the internet.
Michael: No, don’t. Look-
Dr. John Jaquish: This is the hard fast rule, if anybody wants a meme don’t
listen to internet commenters.
Michael: When I left a message on your Instagram and I said, “Would you come on
to my podcasts?” I was amazed that you said yes. So, I’m very appreciative of
that, I’m going to put all the links down below. The book is
Weight Lifting is a Waste of Time and so is Cardio
, and of course I’ll
put a link to the X3 system
down there too. And Dr. John Jaquish,
it’s been an absolute pleasure talking to you I really enjoyed it.
Dr. John Jaquish: Thanks so much, this was great.
Michael: Hey, man, that was great. Thank you.
Dr. John Jaquish: Yeah, it was awesome.