52 ”I Don’t Wanna Get Too Bulky”

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Kevin Tejada: I bet you know someone who doesn't exercise at all, and their reasoning is, (00:28):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't want to get too bulky. (00:33):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, I've never heard a man say this in my life. I'm sure they exist, (00:35):
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Kevin Tejada: but it's mostly women and, I guess, beginners who say this kind of shit. (00:39):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, if you take about four seconds, you can find out the issue with this statement. (00:43):
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Kevin Tejada: There are actually a few issues with this statement. And, of course, (00:48):
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Kevin Tejada: bulky is referring to being very muscular. (00:51):
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Kevin Tejada: And when you put in those exact words, it sounds even sillier. (00:55):
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Kevin Tejada: I used to have a lot of female clients when I was doing in-person personal training (00:58):
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Kevin Tejada: who they wouldn't want to touch a barbell because they don't want to get too bulky. (01:04):
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Speaker2: And that's ridiculous to me because (01:10):
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Kevin Tejada: I always make the comparison. That's like someone saying, oh, (01:12):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't want to touch this computer. I might accidentally hack the Pentagon. (01:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Like, what the fuck are you talking? (01:18):
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Kevin Tejada: Let me calm down. This doesn't make any sense. (01:21):
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Speaker2: What this is implying is that you can accidentally become (01:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Very muscular not only (01:28):
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Kevin Tejada: is this silly but it but it'll (01:31):
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Kevin Tejada: make all the people who are actually consistent want their heads to explode (01:34):
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Kevin Tejada: because they're over here working their ass off trying to get stronger and bigger (01:38):
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Kevin Tejada: and this other person saying well obviously it's really easy you just touch (01:42):
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Kevin Tejada: weights and you become bulky overnight tonight that's not fucking true it's (01:46):
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Kevin Tejada: not fucking true if it were the case would, (01:50):
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Kevin Tejada: fucking world would be like Arnold Schwarzenegger in (01:56):
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Kevin Tejada: his prime at this point if it were that fucking easy do you not think I would (01:59):
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Kevin Tejada: be like twice my width if that were the case but you can't blame these these (02:03):
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Kevin Tejada: people that much because marketing comes into play here of course targeted at (02:08):
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Kevin Tejada: a women yet again telling them. (02:13):
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Kevin Tejada: Knowledge of you know body mechanics (02:19):
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Kevin Tejada: to do safely and correctly now you can just tell those those just tell those (02:23):
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Kevin Tejada: bitches buy a band do that do that fucking leg thing do that instead fuck them (02:29):
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Kevin Tejada: that's that's the kind of mindset with that dissuading of touching actual weights, (02:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, why am I so keen on having women and beginners actually want to touch weights (02:41):
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Kevin Tejada: and resistance training? (02:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Well, not because I love bodybuilding. I do not. But you can do resistance training (02:47):
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Kevin Tejada: without bodybuilding whatsoever or even powerlifting anything. (02:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Just you need to add some load to whatever you're doing, whether that be putting (02:55):
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Kevin Tejada: yourself in different positions to let gravity add that load to you. (03:01):
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Kevin Tejada: But nonetheless, there are many ways you can get resistance training in. (03:05):
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Kevin Tejada: And I recommend it to everyone because for women, resistance training is how (03:08):
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Kevin Tejada: you get the body you actually want. (03:15):
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Kevin Tejada: As I mentioned many times before, all those women online who are showing their (03:18):
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Kevin Tejada: ass saying, oh yeah, train with me, blah, blah, blah. (03:22):
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Kevin Tejada: They fucking, they lift heavy ass shit. They might not always show it, but they do. (03:25):
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Kevin Tejada: Either that or they waste, I don't know, four and a half hours doing like really (03:32):
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Kevin Tejada: wild, inefficient shit in a volume where it becomes halfway efficient. (03:36):
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Kevin Tejada: But by and large, a lot of these people, mostly women, they do exercise the (03:41):
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Kevin Tejada: way you're supposed to with a lot of resistance. (03:46):
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Speaker2: Now, like I said, (03:49):
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Kevin Tejada: That's very hard to kind of get someone to do that safely and correctly without (03:50):
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Kevin Tejada: a huge risk of them fucking up on their own. (03:55):
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Kevin Tejada: I think that plays a part in it. And it's also not as sexy in terms of marketing. (03:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Hey guys, so what you're going to do is you're going to get into the bar, (04:05):
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Kevin Tejada: make sure the barbell's directly in between your shoulders lined up symmetrically (04:09):
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Kevin Tejada: it's on the meat shelf you know between your traps and your shoulders make sure (04:14):
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Kevin Tejada: your knees and your toes stay in line the whole time make sure you stick you (04:19):
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Kevin Tejada: know all this kind of shit that's not as, (04:22):
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Kevin Tejada: effective at getting attention as look at my fat fucking ass look at this band (04:25):
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Kevin Tejada: thing i'm doing whoa i mean the effectiveness of a product doesn't it doesn't (04:29):
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Kevin Tejada: determine how much money it makes the Marketing is really what gets the sales in. Look at Apple. (04:35):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean, they charge premium prices for a walled-off environment where they give (04:40):
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Kevin Tejada: you widgets like 15 years later. (04:44):
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Kevin Tejada: So I get it. A lot of people fall for it because the marketing is a certain way. (04:46):
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Kevin Tejada: But here's the thing. Most women, most people, they want to have not necessarily (04:50):
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Kevin Tejada: a humongous bodybuilder look, but a look of someone who's fit, (04:54):
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Kevin Tejada: who they obviously, you know, they can exercise. (04:59):
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Kevin Tejada: They're not fat. They're not huge, probably. (05:01):
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Kevin Tejada: But, you know, they look in shape. (05:04):
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Kevin Tejada: Now what happens is when a lot of women are scared of (05:07):
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Kevin Tejada: getting bulky is that they spend (05:10):
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Kevin Tejada: or rather waste their time on cardio cardio eating (05:13):
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Kevin Tejada: less eating less and they just become well first (05:17):
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Kevin Tejada: of all that doesn't often work because the majority of the united states is (05:19):
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Kevin Tejada: fat as hell so what that does is make them super hungry probably and then they (05:23):
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Kevin Tejada: eat a bunch but if they manage to control the intake they're just going to be (05:28):
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Kevin Tejada: hungry and then weak and they will never get the fat ass that they want. (05:32):
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Speaker2: Now, I think you should exercise for a variety of reasons, but I know that's kind of the main thing. (05:38):
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Kevin Tejada: From talking to a lot of women. Oh, I just want to get my butt bigger. (05:45):
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Kevin Tejada: I want to slim down my stomach, get bigger leg. (05:49):
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Kevin Tejada: I know, I know, I know. Okay. You want what you want. (05:52):
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Kevin Tejada: What I'm telling you is, if you do resistance training, I'm talking just literally squat, work, (05:56):
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Kevin Tejada: upper body is elevated upwards so it becomes easier for you. (06:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Work your way there. I would highly recommend that you also. (06:12):
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Speaker1: Pull as well. (06:17):
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Kevin Tejada: A lot of women don't do that. A lot of men don't do that either. (06:18):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm talking pulling, doing pull-ups, doing rows, just pulling whether it's vertically, horizontally. (06:20):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, I'm not a woman, but I used to have breasts because I was fat as fuck. (06:26):
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Kevin Tejada: When you're 5'7 and a teenager, 244 pounds, (06:31):
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Kevin Tejada: Those aren't fun when you walk around, okay? If you don't exercise, those are not fun. (06:37):
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Kevin Tejada: So, if you work your back in addition (06:42):
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Kevin Tejada: to the rest of your body your posture will increase and improve (06:45):
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Kevin Tejada: it'll improve can your posture increase it'll (06:49):
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Kevin Tejada: improve and you will stand upright more easily because (06:52):
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Kevin Tejada: your your back will have much more muscle to kind of (06:55):
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Kevin Tejada: just hold you up way more easily and those (06:58):
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Kevin Tejada: big breasts you may or may not have will be supported because your (07:01):
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Kevin Tejada: back is supporting all of your body i'm not saying if you (07:04):
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Kevin Tejada: have like you know k cups or (07:07):
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Kevin Tejada: something that working at your back is going to solve all your (07:10):
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Kevin Tejada: problems but i see there are a lot of women out there (07:12):
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Kevin Tejada: who they're overweight and they're like oh i'm just gonna get a breast reduction because (07:16):
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Kevin Tejada: it's too much okay first of all you should lose weight first your (07:20):
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Kevin Tejada: breasts will reduce a bit in that way usually and then on the way there you (07:23):
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Kevin Tejada: should also exercise so your back can support your body your current overweight (07:28):
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Kevin Tejada: body and then your newer less overweight body then you can think about getting (07:32):
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Kevin Tejada: an expensive fucking surgery i'm. (07:37):
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Speaker2: Not a woman so i can only imagine there's some women out there who got breast reduction (07:40):
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Kevin Tejada: And then they lost a lot of weight and they're like damn if i still had those (07:44):
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Kevin Tejada: huge ass breasts i could rule the fucking world that's what i would think if i were a woman anyway, (07:47):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, here's something that a lot of women and beginners don't know. (07:56):
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Kevin Tejada: This is more applicable to women, though. (08:00):
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Kevin Tejada: For women, as I was saying before, it's not easy to gain a lot of bulk. (08:02):
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Kevin Tejada: You need to put in a lot of work. You need to eat a lot of food. (08:07):
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Kevin Tejada: And it's going to take a long time to build that bulk you're talking about, which is a lot of muscle. (08:10):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, even if you were to do that, eat a lot, work out a lot, (08:16):
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Kevin Tejada: whatever, you're still not going to get bulky. You know why? (08:19):
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Kevin Tejada: You simply do not have enough testosterone to get fucking huge. (08:23):
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Kevin Tejada: It's as simple as that. There are men out there who inject testosterone to get bigger. (08:27):
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Kevin Tejada: What on earth makes you think you as a woman who have way less testosterone (08:32):
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Kevin Tejada: can even hope to accidentally get as big as those guys? (08:36):
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Kevin Tejada: That makes no sense. So you can rest easy. You cannot get bulky by accident. (08:39):
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Speaker2: That's a good and a bad thing. (08:46):
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Kevin Tejada: It's a bad thing because you're going to have to. whatever you do want to accomplish, (08:47):
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Kevin Tejada: it's still going to take forever. (08:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Even if you did want to get bulky isn't stronger, you would have to spend a lot of time doing that. (08:54):
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Kevin Tejada: So it's going to take a while. You're going to have to need, (08:59):
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Kevin Tejada: you're going to require a lot of patience to get where you want to get to. It's the bad news. (09:01):
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Kevin Tejada: The good news is that you have total control over your body. (09:07):
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Kevin Tejada: If you don't want to get too bulky, fine. Work your way up. (09:12):
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Kevin Tejada: You can stop or maintain at any point in (09:16):
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Kevin Tejada: your journey it's very easy instead of (09:19):
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Kevin Tejada: increasing increasing once you hit a body type that you're into just (09:22):
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Kevin Tejada: keep doing what you're doing and eating about where you're eating and that's (09:25):
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Kevin Tejada: kind of it i mean when you're older you're gonna have to up it a little bit (09:29):
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Kevin Tejada: or reduce it a bit in some way but you know age has an effect on that kind of (09:32):
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Kevin Tejada: thing but in general you have a lot of control of your body because it happens (09:37):
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Kevin Tejada: so gradually these changes. (09:41):
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Speaker2: For damn sure, if you're someone who (09:45):
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Kevin Tejada: Works out like once a week, there's no way in hell you're getting bulky. (09:46):
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Kevin Tejada: You're not getting anything at that point, honestly. (09:50):
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Kevin Tejada: And this is also interesting for a lot of beginners and women who are overweight (09:53):
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Kevin Tejada: and they're saying, ah, you know, I just want to lose weight. (09:57):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't want to get too bulky. (09:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Motherfucker, you are already bulky. By the way, muscle is denser than fat, (10:01):
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Kevin Tejada: which means that you can weigh the same. Like let's say you're 180 pounds and you're fat. (10:07):
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Kevin Tejada: And let's say you're 180 pounds and you have a lot of lean muscle mass on you. (10:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Same way, the guy with lean muscle mass is going to be a lot leaner, (10:18):
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Kevin Tejada: of course, thinner, smaller. (10:23):
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Kevin Tejada: Same height too, by the way. So if you're overweight. (10:26):
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Speaker1: You have a lot (10:29):
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Kevin Tejada: Of excess body fat, then you are bulky. But by gaining muscle slowly, (10:30):
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Kevin Tejada: you're not going to get fucking bulky or rather too bulky anyway. (10:35):
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Kevin Tejada: And here's the awesome thing. (10:40):
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Kevin Tejada: Super fucking strong and thick (10:48):
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Kevin Tejada: and juicy. You can actually exercise less because depending on your goal. (10:50):
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Kevin Tejada: Of course, if you're doing, let's say an hour of cardio every single time or (10:56):
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Kevin Tejada: two hours of cardio for some people every day or whatever it is, (10:59):
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Kevin Tejada: you switch over to more intentional resistance training, you can exercise a (11:03):
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Kevin Tejada: lot less and probably for your (11:09):
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Kevin Tejada: goal, depending what it is, be a lot more effective, a lot more efficient. (11:11):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you understand that you cannot accidentally get bulky, (11:15):
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Kevin Tejada: you will save a lot of time. (11:18):
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Kevin Tejada: I hear something I didn't know in these notes I generated for this. (11:20):
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Kevin Tejada: Some people out there who start resistance training and they apparently quit (11:25):
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Kevin Tejada: because they notice like the pump from exercising or the excess water weight (11:28):
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Kevin Tejada: they're keeping on due to whatever reason. (11:34):
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Kevin Tejada: And they think, oh my God, I'm getting too big. And then quit. (11:35):
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Kevin Tejada: I didn't know those people existed, but I guess that makes sense. (11:38):
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Kevin Tejada: And like I was mentioning earlier, when you start, I didn't know what happened this early, but cool. (11:42):
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Speaker2: When you get over the age of 30, (11:48):
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Kevin Tejada: You start very slowly losing muscle mass (11:50):
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Kevin Tejada: so that means after 30 if you just don't exercise because (11:53):
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Kevin Tejada: you're scared of getting bulky you're going to become weaker (11:56):
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Kevin Tejada: your metabolism is going to lower a bit and you're gonna have a higher risk (12:00):
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Kevin Tejada: of breaking yourself because here's something that most people don't understand (12:05):
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Kevin Tejada: muscle is organic armor that means if someone who's just skin and bones falls (12:09):
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Kevin Tejada: the fuck over, they might actually break something. (12:16):
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Kevin Tejada: If someone who has some muscle on them falls over, they might bounce. (12:19):
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Kevin Tejada: This happened to me before. I, because I used to be very, very fat and because (12:27):
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Kevin Tejada: I, you know, squat and stuff, my thighs are pretty thick. (12:30):
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Kevin Tejada: So there've been times where I like bump into a table very hard and say, (12:34):
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Kevin Tejada: ah, that, okay. That was quite a bump. (12:39):
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Kevin Tejada: And I was thinking to myself every time this happens man if i didn't have any (12:42):
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Kevin Tejada: muscle that would have really really fucking harmed me i think that was rough (12:46):
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Kevin Tejada: but i have armor on me this is also helpful when i do my handstand practice (12:50):
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Kevin Tejada: if i do fall over i'm good i have a lot of padding when i fall over it's awesome. (12:56):
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Speaker2: A big kicker as well. There are a lot of people who fall for, let's say it again, (13:03):
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Kevin Tejada: In terms of exercise so if you're doing you know certain exercises are super (13:32):
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Kevin Tejada: easy and you're doing like you know 40 reps because you want a tone or whatever (13:37):
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Kevin Tejada: it is uh you're probably wasting a lot of time to be honest you're not really (13:41):
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Kevin Tejada: going to get where you're going to get to and you're spending a lot of time doing jack shit let's. (13:45):
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Kevin Tejada: Equal bodybuilding could do many things i do heavily heavily recommend resistance (14:27):
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Kevin Tejada: training though that can be any number of things just as long as it's fucking (14:33):
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Kevin Tejada: hard for you then it's basically resistance training, (14:37):
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Kevin Tejada: next devil i gained muscle really fast for a few weeks what if i keep going (14:40):
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Kevin Tejada: you're talking about newbie gains that's because your body has been doing jack (14:44):
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Kevin Tejada: shit before now it's now it's doing something, (14:48):
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Kevin Tejada: to seem really fast right now but later on it's going to be very slow (14:52):
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Kevin Tejada: and again regardless you can (14:55):
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Kevin Tejada: stop whenever you want actually it's very easy to stop so (14:58):
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Kevin Tejada: chill out women who lift get manly arms (15:02):
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Kevin Tejada: and shoulders which men are you talking about i got to the supermarket and i (15:05):
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Kevin Tejada: see men with very i don't know different arms and shoulders these days i don't (15:10):
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Kevin Tejada: know i don't know which men you're talking about but i call that strong capable (15:13):
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Kevin Tejada: maybe arms you may be saying i don't if it's related to men necessarily see. (15:18):
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Speaker2: A lot of men and women men men and women who have different shaped arms (15:22):
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Kevin Tejada: I like to say strong instead of manly personally (15:27):
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Kevin Tejada: but whatever my clothes (15:31):
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Kevin Tejada: fit tighter after i started lifting so i must be getting bulky well (15:34):
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Kevin Tejada: i mean i can't really argue against that one can i (15:38):
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Kevin Tejada: you're getting bigger i guess but then (15:41):
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Kevin Tejada: again if you put your clothes on right after you exercise you're also dealing with (15:44):
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Kevin Tejada: the pump all the blood rushing through you because of all the activity so yeah (15:47):
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Kevin Tejada: they'll be a bit tighter anyway which most people like but whatever i wouldn't (15:51):
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Kevin Tejada: say you're getting bulky unless you feel like that all the time and even then (15:56):
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Kevin Tejada: you might not be bulky it's just your muscles just more more prominent at that (15:59):
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Kevin Tejada: point you don't have to be a bodybuilder to be in. (16:04):
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Speaker2: Uh fitting clothing i see muscular women on instagram and don't want to look like that don't worry (16:07):
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Kevin Tejada: There who just do fucking chores and can look decently strong. (16:20):
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Kevin Tejada: Women have to actually try a lot more to look visibly muscular. (16:24):
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Kevin Tejada: So don't, don't fucking worry about it. If you become muscular, (16:28):
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Kevin Tejada: you're, you were trying to do that. So don't worry about it. (16:31):
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Speaker2: I'm afraid I'll lose my feminine, (16:35):
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Kevin Tejada: Athletic, lean look if I lift heavy. Okay. Let me tell you something. (16:37):
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Kevin Tejada: You probably already know this. (16:41):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm an online weight loss coach and i i use instagram i see other coaches out there right, (16:43):
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Kevin Tejada: with the most fucking thirsty ass comments are the (16:50):
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Kevin Tejada: ones who are muscular not bodybuilder level (16:53):
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Kevin Tejada: it's just must have muscle period because here's (16:56):
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Kevin Tejada: the thing when you have muscle as a man or a woman your body is (16:59):
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Kevin Tejada: shaped more more pleasingly i guess a muscular man and a muscular woman they're (17:02):
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Kevin Tejada: going to be shaped a bit differently anyway and the way that a muscular quote-unquote (17:08):
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Kevin Tejada: muscular woman turns out is turns out when they're wearing clothing it's very (17:12):
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Kevin Tejada: very pleasing to most people based on the fucking cringe-ass comments I see. (17:17):
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Kevin Tejada: And that's... (17:22):
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Speaker2: I can't think (17:23):
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Kevin Tejada: Of a more feminine experience than having dudes fucking drool over you. (17:24):
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Kevin Tejada: What are you actually worried about? I don't understand this fucking devil shit. (17:29):
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Kevin Tejada: I'll lose my femininity if I lift head. If you look better, what are you talking about? (17:33):
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Kevin Tejada: That's strange. If you lose your athletic look, I think athletic people look (17:38):
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Kevin Tejada: like they have muscularity to them, so that's weird. (17:42):
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Kevin Tejada: If I lose my lean look, again i don't know who the fuck is would be saying something (17:45):
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Kevin Tejada: like this and to prove my point go look at uh these muscular women on instagram (17:50):
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Kevin Tejada: these coaches whatever look for pictures with them with like clothing on and (17:55):
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Kevin Tejada: you'd be like oh okay that looks much different than i imagined, (17:58):
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Kevin Tejada: most women will be like wow i want to look like that in clothing well. (18:02):
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Speaker2: To look like that you're gonna (18:07):
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Kevin Tejada: Have to look kind of close to what they look like with less clothing and no (18:07):
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Kevin Tejada: not bodybuilder level just having any muscle a lot of people confuse you know (18:11):
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Kevin Tejada: body states they think oh if you're thin you're anorexic they think being strong (18:16):
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Kevin Tejada: or fit or lean means you got to look like a humongous bodybuilder they people have no fucking. (18:21):
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Speaker2: Sense of anything (18:26):
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Kevin Tejada: This is dragging on. Let me get into some stats over here. Some numbers. The average woman. (18:28):
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Kevin Tejada: It's gonna be kind of hard to gain a lot of muscle so a lot of women out there (19:39):
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Kevin Tejada: they're thinking i want to lose weight i don't want to be bulky and then they (19:43):
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Kevin Tejada: just don't accomplish either because they're stuttering themselves in a way (19:46):
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Kevin Tejada: that causes them to binge you later and blah, blah, blah. You know how it goes. (19:50):
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Kevin Tejada: And by the way, if you resistance train, your resting energy burn rate goes up. (19:54):
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Kevin Tejada: It can go up to like 7%. So that helps as a whole with your body burning calories (20:00):
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Kevin Tejada: with you just existing, which helps you lose body fat, excess body fat. (20:06):
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Kevin Tejada: After the age of 30, this is a tragic stat. (20:12):
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Kevin Tejada: Adults lose 3 to 8% of their muscle mass per decade. (20:16):
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Kevin Tejada: If they do not strength train, which means your body is going to get weaker (20:22):
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Kevin Tejada: and less efficient over time if you don't train it. (20:26):
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Kevin Tejada: So you better get rid of that bulky fear real quick. (20:30):
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Kevin Tejada: Only in the United States, only 13% of women regularly engage in strength training, (20:33):
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Kevin Tejada: despite how fucking amazing it is for everything you could possibly want in (20:38):
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Kevin Tejada: your health, which makes sense. Although at the gym, I see a lot of women there. (20:42):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean, a lot of them are doing not quite efficient things. So I don't know. (20:46):
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Kevin Tejada: In a survey, this one sucks. (20:51):
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Kevin Tejada: Two-thirds of women say they avoid lifting heavy weights due to fear of getting too muscular. (20:54):
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Kevin Tejada: Yet, less than 5% of women report ever, ever feeling like they're actually too (20:59):
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Kevin Tejada: bulky after getting on a regular strength program. (21:05):
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Kevin Tejada: So, according to other women, this fear is unfounded. And like I mentioned before, (21:09):
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Kevin Tejada: muscle is denser than fat. (21:15):
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Speaker2: Okay. (21:17):
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Kevin Tejada: Where to gain a bunch of muscle, you're not going to appear bulkier. (21:19):
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Kevin Tejada: You're going to appear leaner and firmer and better probably. (21:21):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you don't want to get too bulky, what you really need to do is lose the excess body fat. (21:26):
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Kevin Tejada: And by the way, if you care about aging well, resistance training reduces the (21:31):
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Kevin Tejada: risk of osteoporosis by 40% and can about have the risk of age-related disability. (21:36):
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Kevin Tejada: So strength training helps you age better (21:44):
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Kevin Tejada: wow who knew so here's (21:47):
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Kevin Tejada: the thing you can't accidentally get bulky just like you can't accidentally hack (21:51):
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Kevin Tejada: a government by touching a laptop touch those weights or if you're not ready (21:54):
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Kevin Tejada: for that just get the basic body weight stuff going because i know most women (21:59):
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Kevin Tejada: maybe most people at this point but definitely most women can't do a single (22:03):
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Kevin Tejada: push-up so work towards that work towards pull-ups work towards work towards (22:06):
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Kevin Tejada: squats and lunges and stuff like that. That is resistance training. (22:11):
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Kevin Tejada: You don't even need to touch weights yet for resistance training. (22:14):
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Kevin Tejada: I hear this from some women, my girlfriend included, like, oh, (22:17):
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Kevin Tejada: yeah, I need to go to the gym to exercise. (22:20):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm like, first of all, we have weights at home. (22:22):
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Kevin Tejada: Secondly, you don't even need to touch those because the way that you are right now, (22:26):
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Kevin Tejada: you can accomplish a lot for your body if you just do push-ups and even try (22:32):
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Kevin Tejada: to do pull-ups, just some rowing, a bunch of air squats with a little weight, if anything. (22:37):
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Speaker2: It's really easy (22:44):
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Kevin Tejada: For beginners and women to just start resistance training. You need very little to give. (22:45):
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Speaker2: Yourself a challenge. And for you to (22:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Advance and require more of a challenge, it's still going to take a while. (22:55):
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Kevin Tejada: So you shouldn't worry about the end goal. You shouldn't worry about step 24. (22:59):
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Kevin Tejada: You're not even in a step two. Just start doing something. (23:04):
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Kevin Tejada: It's going to be slow. It's going to be controlled. You're going to be in a (23:08):
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Kevin Tejada: hundred percent control of how you will end up. (23:11):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you're not a fan of what's going on, stop. (23:15):
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Kevin Tejada: Oops, I gained 10 pounds of muscle. No, you're going to be able to stop way (23:19):
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Kevin Tejada: before you're uncomfortable. I promise you that. (23:24):
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Kevin Tejada: And if you ever do feel, you know, big, thick, whatever, after, (23:28):
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Kevin Tejada: after exercising, you probably have temporary water weight going on, (23:31):
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Kevin Tejada: or, you know, the blood rushing through you is giving you a pump. (23:36):
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Kevin Tejada: Calm down, check yourself later or in the morning, whatever. (23:39):
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Kevin Tejada: And by the way, for extra proof, take pictures every, I don't know, (23:43):
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Kevin Tejada: two, four six weeks whatever you want and then compare yourself. (23:47):
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Speaker2: Am i getting bulky (23:50):
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Kevin Tejada: No spoiler but you can check yourself and. (23:51):
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Speaker2: Don't fall for (23:56):
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Kevin Tejada: Toning stuff again toning just means having some (23:56):
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Kevin Tejada: muscle that's visible because there's a low enough body fat (24:00):
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Kevin Tejada: percentage remember that don't fall for (24:03):
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Kevin Tejada: oh i'm gonna fucking tone baby no stop (24:06):
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Kevin Tejada: in fact everyone who thinks oh i don't want to do this because i might get bulky (24:10):
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Kevin Tejada: you should actually do that thing because you won't get bulky in the progress (24:13):
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Kevin Tejada: in the process like literally squat deadlifts do some kind of pressing whatever (24:17):
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Kevin Tejada: do that shit you will get way closer to your goal and (24:23):
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Kevin Tejada: to see the progress far far beyond you get to the point of too much so yeah (24:29):
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Kevin Tejada: if you honestly don't want to be bulky just lose weight lose excess body fat. (24:34):
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Kevin Tejada: That is the real tip here. (24:38):
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Kevin Tejada: All right. Hope you make it. And next episode is actually going to be the year, (24:40):
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Kevin Tejada: the anniversary of me doing this, this podcast. (24:45):
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Kevin Tejada: And directly the day after that episode comes out, I'm going to fucking Japan, (24:48):
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Kevin Tejada: but I record ahead of time. So you're still going to get some shit. (24:52):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm a fucking workhorse, bitch. That's why I haven't missed a fucking week. (24:55):
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Kevin Tejada: You get 53 fucking episodes. Cause I'm not a fucking quitter. Fuck you. (25:00):
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Kevin Tejada: You're gonna get shit while I'm on vacation While I'm on vacation you're gonna (25:04):
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Kevin Tejada: get shit You're welcome Anyway leave a comment if you've been here since the (25:07):
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Kevin Tejada: beginning I'd be curious to know I'll give you a hearty. (25:12):
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Speaker2: Thank you And a nice handshake in the comments (25:15):
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Kevin Tejada: If possible Alright see you next time. (25:18):
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