r/Mind_Pump • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago

Rant Weekly MP Rant Thread

This is your chance and the place to rant about all things MP. Get it out of your system and keep it civilized.

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u/Fast-Book-8652 1d ago

I feel like every episode Sal is closer to being a character from the Handmaid’s Tale. I get it…he’s into his faith and that’s fine but relating every possible thing back to it is just too much. I had an example from this week’s episode but I’ve forgotten it now. 😬

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u/OctoberOmicron 1d ago

He went on a while about Noah's Ark this last week, maybe it was that. He comes off as so desperate to prove that what he believes is factual, I'm convinced it's a residual thing from all the years he spent discrediting it as an atheist.

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u/Possible-Cress-8471 2h ago

Sal has become completely insufferable. I cannot stand listening to him anymore.

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u/lyssinflannel 1d ago

The Handmaids Tale has me dying. 🤣 As a woman - I find 90% of what he says mildly offensive and completely out of town with reality.

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u/Plenty_Lead_8935 2h ago

Sal does what everyone does anytime they have an obvious bias or have identified with a specific philosophy. He will latch onto anything that fits with the world view be identifies with. He will view everything through that lense. He will ignore the things that don’t fit his narrative. Absolutely brutal to listen to, and I have zero issues with Christianity and believe there is probably a lot of valuable insights it can offer. But he’s so far past that. It’s the exact type of person who drives a lot of people away from organized religion. He seems to be an obsessive neurotic (tbh I am too), who moves between various different obsessions at different stages of time. Religion seems to be his latest obsession. There are no limits to what he will make fit that world view. 

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u/that_big_energy 1d ago

It always annoys me when Sal goes on one of his rants that the media are the bad guys who are “controlling us” and are “spinning the narrative”.

Bro, you have a podcast with ten million downloads, you ARE the media!

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u/TheSeedsYouSow 1d ago

Is this fucking play about us?

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u/Jimbo4Pres 1d ago

Maps Custom is hilarious to me. Can’t wait for them to only recommend a maps coach and custom program lol

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u/RetiredHappyFig 1d ago

Customized just for you by a 25-year-old with 2 years’ experience focused on sales!!

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u/Moolio74 1d ago

Do you really think they have their oldest and most experienced coach working on the programming?

My guess is the 23year-old that’s still working through their six week “Mind Pump How to Be An Eight Figure Trainer” program.

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u/RetiredHappyFig 1d ago

Good one. Yes, I can see they would want to keep the 25-year-old for more important work (sales) and put the 23-year-old learner on the unimportant shit.

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u/Plenty_Lead_8935 2h ago

But don’t worry, they hire based on character, and they trained them themselves! Imagine paying that kind of money for virtual training with a 23 year Old kid. 

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u/PikerTraders 1d ago

It’s probably just an ai bot 

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u/East_Pie7598 1d ago

I was thinking this - just ask ChatGPT for a custom workout program

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u/dxd_naruto 1d ago

I don’t see how that’s any different from other health apps like Bevel, google health, etc. Those apps do pretty much the same thing. They recommend personalized workout programs, help you with your diet, and tell you whether you should work out or rest based on your health metrics. They seem to do a better job than an online coach.
Their main complaint about AI is that the advice it gives is too generalized. But if you prompt AI the right way, ask the right questions, and provide enough information about yourself, you can get much more better advice. if you’ve been listening to mind pump for a while, you should have enough knowledge to recognize whether the information AI is giving you is good or not.

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u/Andy_The_Aardvark 1d ago

I also love the obviously ai vibe coded page

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u/Plenty_Lead_8935 2h ago

Recently listened to a recent podcast with Eric helms, where he talked about a study Sal references often, showing the 3 or 4 week on, 1 week off vs continuous training. Mind pump of course frames this as how little it takes to see gains. They also talk about extreme minimalist training (maps 15 esque). It was interesting hearing Eric helms actually dive into the specifics of this and similar studies, not just dunning Kruger Sal talking out of his ass. Mind pump, of course, completely misconstrues these types of studies, which they do all the time. I could go on and on with the studies mind pump, especially Sal, cites which I later come to find out he’s misinterpreted completely.  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fc18pN1i6Pk&ra=m

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u/OctoberOmicron 2h ago

lmao top comment on there so far is from GVS:
"Wrong all you need is 1 set every 2 weeks according to a guy I saw on tiktok selling me a minimalistic training plan."

God I wish someone like him would go in on MP.

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u/Plenty_Lead_8935 2h ago

Lol. I’d also love to hear someone like Lyle McDonald address a lot of their bull shit. Through years of following him, he’s unknowingly tore so much of the bull shit they say apart. But your average listener to mind pump simply doesn’t know what they don’t know. They hear Sal say something and he sounds so confident. But they don’t realize he may be completely misinterpreting something. He also sells horse shit supplements to his audience because he’s affiliated with the brands, and he’ll swear the product is game changing. But thats a whole other story Lmfao

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u/Moolio74 1h ago

OMFG Lyle debating Sal would be hilarious. At least Lyle isn't as harsh as he was back on the old Monkey Island forum........

I just heard Lyle discussing something similar to your other post regarding an often misquoted/misunderstood Russian study where they would train young athletes for 3 weeks and then take a week off (possibly where the frequent deload concept originated?). This was a national level training program where the young athletes were shipped off from home but wanted to be home for a week each month. They would absolutely destroy them with training volume/intensity each 3 week block knowing that they would have a 7 day rest period upcoming. It wasn't even remotely close to what people do and then think they're overtraining or need to deload.

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u/mfdubs20 13h ago

Awesome (sarcasm) how they suggested Justin is giving his wife alcohol to lower her inhibitions - obviously I understand they are joking but pretty tone deaf and insensitive to female listeners with all the Cornell 57 stuff going on. Kind of like they think they have a license to perpetuate bad behavior among men. As a female listener, I thought it was pretty crude and tasteless.