Sasso and Kultgen figured they had said all there was to say about Brady reversing field from a record $375m payday at Fox Sports, and they moved on to other subjects. “ not someone who’s known for being a funny person, and now he thinks he can do this if he outworks everybody.”

“There are other football players, super famous ones in some cases, who have gone on to pursue comedic careers – like OJ Simpson,” said Kultgen on the 28 March episode. When Dudesy prompted the co-hosts to talk about Brady doing standup, they had plenty to consider. We’re in there for an hour and a half and then leave.” “And we do what it says or don’t do what it says. “We just show up, and it starts talking to us,” Kultgen says. It can also call back the hosts’ expansive work, from Sasso’s memorable turn as Tony Soprano in MadTV’s “ edited-for-network TV” version of the mob drama, to Kultgen’s long-forgotten feature script called Pizza: The Movie, which is exactly what it sounds like. The downside is that Dudesy is incredibly invasive: it draws from its human hosts’ emails, texts, social media accounts, and browsing and purchasing histories. For example, if you're trying to activate glutes during a squat, you can focus on squeezing your glutes at the top of the movement.The upside is it takes all the legwork out of production.

“What I find works best for my clients is to think about sending energy to the muscle and contracting. “It usually means we want you to consciously contract or engage a specific muscle to increase its activity,” Thompson says. Once you're in the thick of a workout, a trainer's cue to 'activate' your muscles is really a mental game.

For instance, although you probably don't run with weights, an activation warm-up for a run could include lunges to get the major leg and glute muscles to 'turn on.' Or zero in on gently engaging the muscles you know you'll be working. In a muscle activation warm-up, practice the move you’re about to do under tension with just body weight, or with a lighter weight than with the full load. 'Not doing a muscle activation warm-up can lead to increased risk for injury and reduce the overall effect of your workout,' Thompson says.

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