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2893: The 5 Best Forms of Cardio Ranked From Worst to Best (The Results Will Surprise You)

Explore episode Jul 3, 2026

I'm like, look, man, do you want to step outside with me? Do you want to handle this outside? He's like, yeah, I do. I said, after you. So I do this, he walks out the front door and I lock it. He turns around, he looks at me through the front door and he figures out I locked the door. And then I waved at him.

Sal Di Stefano

2893: The 5 Best Forms of Cardio Ranked…

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Q&A: Craziest gym stories

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The final Q&A segment becomes an extended storytelling session, with each host competing to top the last story. Sal opens with the gnarliest physical injury he ever witnessed: a member who unracked only one side of an incline barbell, causing it to flip and shatter his forearm with bone protruding through the skin. Adam counters with a woman on unknown drugs — likely PCP — who walked her feet up a mirror while holding a Hammer Strength machine, then stripped naked in the sauna and dove underwater in the jacuzzi every time police tried to approach her.^{[1]

— Sal Di Stefano

"A man walked in with a shotgun looking for his wife. A woman on drugs walked her feet up a mirror and then fled into the jacuzzi. Sal locke…"

1:09:15} Justin recounts walking out of his gym right past a man who'd pulled out a shotgun looking for his wife, only realizing what had happened when reviewing the security footage. Adam was in his office when the man walked in, shotgun resting calmly on his shoulder, making small talk with the front desk. Then come the bathroom stories — poop in the shower, someone shaving their beard in the jacuzzi, and Sal's masterpiece: locking an aggressive biker out of the gym by inviting him to 'step outside' and saying 'after you,' then locking the door and waving through the glass. The episode closes with Sal's Instagram reminder and the full Mind Pump outro and RGB Super Bundle promotion.