Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Dos and Don’t When it Comes to Dropping Fat and Building Muscle at the Same Time with Adam Schafer
22 Jan 2025
This episode is brought to you by Momentous, Blueland, and Maui Nui. Starting a weight-loss journey and striving for your fittest year yet isn’t always easy. It’s natural to feel like you’re the only one struggling to stay on track, but it can be reassuring to know that even fitness experts face similar challenges. Today’s guest is a fitness expert who’s here to share his relatable journey of losing weight, building muscle, and getting back on track—proving that progress is achievable for all of us. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with Adam Schafer, Co-founder of Mind Pump. Adam shares the top dos and don’ts he’s learned from his journey to lose weight and build muscle. He highlights the basics everyone should know, how they shaped his own weight-loss journey, and how to harness metabolic flexibility. Adam also emphasizes that it’s never too late to get fitter and healthier, reminding us that small, consistent steps can lead to incredible transformations in every aspect of life. Adam Schafer, an IFBB pro bodybuilder and founding member of Mind Pump Media, joins us today as a co-host of the popular Mind Pump podcast. He managed some of the largest fitness clubs in the Bay Area and, along the way, collected eight national certifications, and a pro card in bodybuilding. In this episode, Dhru and Adam dive into: Top dos and don’ts when you are trying to lose weight (00:36) The most crucial basics for the average person (15:41) How to appropriately track protein (22:02) Dhru's health journey (28:45) Why it's never too late (35:08) Behaviors that allow metabolic flexibility (41:01) Mindfulness and mindset shifts that improve how you feel (48:30) Overcoming discouragement from unrealistic goals (51:48) Ginny MacColl, the Oldest American Ninja Warrior (01:00:30) How Adam trained his wife and what she discovered (01:03:48) Resources and recommendations (01:07:57) Also mentioned in this episode: The Step By Step Longevity Protocol this 72 Year Old Followed to Reverse Her Osteopenia, Build Muscle, and Become the Oldest American Ninja Warrior For more on Adam and Mind Pump, follow them on Instagram, X/Twitter, Apple Podcast, TikTok, YouTube, and their Website. This episode is brought to you by Momentous, Blueland, and Maui Nui. Optimize your energy and mental clarity with the purest form of creatine made by and used by the best. Go to livemomentous.com and enter promo code DHRU to get 20% off any order. Get a clean home while keeping a clean planet with Blueland. Right now, get 15% off your first order by going to blueland.com/dhru. Right now, Maui Nui Venison is offering my community 15% off your first purchase. Just go to mauinuivenison.com/DHRU or enter the code DHRU at check out to get 20% off and up your high-quality protein today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Adam, welcome to the podcast. You know, you've been on this intense journey for anybody following your story of building muscle and losing fat, both at the same time. And for my audience who is interested in the same thing, and many of them want to live their fittest year ever.
Let's talk about some of those top do's and don'ts that you've learned in your own journey that can inspire their own 30-day program or protocol. I want to start off with the first one. Maybe give us a don't that you experience yourself on your own journey.
Well, I think if anybody that's watched the last three months I've been doing this, I made a lot of mistakes, I think. I think maybe that's probably what people enjoyed was it was relatable. I was honest and authentic, and I just kind of, you know, I didn't have a major plan. I had a goal in mind of losing as much body fat as I could, building as much muscle.
But I kind of went as I felt and just communicated what was going on. Probably one of the first mistakes or pitfalls I had on the second month, I really didn't move body fat percentage. I was really frustrated with that. The goal was to lean out more. I added a little bit of muscle, so it wasn't completely at loss or terrible, but I didn't lose any more body fat.
and what i communicated to the audience was i had three weeks in a row where i had like i had a vacation i had a birthday and then we had this like race car thing that i did with my wife so basically three weeks out of the four weeks i was traveling you know so virtually you know a third or more of the days were in hotels flying in airplanes airports But I still was eating good.
I didn't eat off the plan per se. Like I was still going through Chipotle and getting chicken rice bowls and, you know, staying away from the desserts and alcohol. So I was still I would consider myself eating really good. And I was tracking. tracking when you're traveling and in the airport is a guesstimation, right?
Like it's not, I didn't carry my scale with me and I wasn't, you know, and I wasn't getting back to the cook and say, did you use any butter or oil in this stuff? You know? So I was looking at it going, okay, that's probably six ounces of that. That's four. And I like to think that I'm, I'm pretty good at that since I did that competitively. But when the results came in,
and I didn't lean out, what that told me was my estimations were off, and not just a little off. They were off enough for me actually to build muscle, which means I had to have been in a calorie surplus more often than I was in a deficit. And based off of my tracking, I thought I was at a consistent 500 to a thousand calorie deficit. So I wasn't just a little off.
I was off by hundreds, maybe a thousand calories on some days, which was, it was mind blowing a bit, but when I really think about it, it wasn't because in the past when I am competitively tracking and trying to lean out like that aggressively, I just don't eat out like that. Like in my competitive days, I carried Tupper wherever I went just so there wasn't room for error.
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