Hi, it's Bridget. Welcome to Above Life channel. I hope that we can inspire your spirit today. I want to do a follow-up. This video is a follow-up to the channel I did with River Phoenix. So if you haven't watched that video, go ahead and watch the River Phoenix after life channel first and then come back here and check in with me. Sometimes I like to do a follow-up because I am really curious. Like, I want to know. Because when I went into this channel, I didn't know a whole lot about River Phoenix. Just kind of what I could maybe recall or remember and I did not research ahead of time. Therefore, I really was going in blind. And so I wanted to check in with you and follow up with some of the things that came up in the video after I've now watched it and I did some fact checking. So first of all, I had kind of a time span with him. I felt like, and you all know if you watch my videos, I am not great with numbers and I'm not great with names. So the exact timing or dates of things, I'm just not that great at and ages, not that great at. And so that's my little disclaimer. However, I was pretty close with him. He actually died when he was 23 years old in October of 1993. He died on Halloween and he did die of a overdose at the famous Hollywood, the famous Viper Room, all right, in California. And he, so when I did the age, I could feel that he wasn't 30, wasn't 29, wasn't 28, maybe 27. And I kind of kept feeling like, and then at 25, maybe 27, he was 23. But that is also significant because the 27 piece kept feeling strong for me. So that would be four years after his death. Okay, so four years after his death. And so I, so I set that aside. Then another piece of information that came through was a time span, like maybe when he was famous, sometimes actors or actresses or famous people give me times when they were like really big or times when that were time spans that were important to them in their lives. And what he gave me, what I got for him, I think was 19, trying to remember 1988, I think it was 88 or 89, I think it was 88 to 1997. Well, 1997 is again, four years after his death, which relates or correlates to me thinking he was 27 or feeling like he may have been, you know, there's something significant about four years after his death. And so I wanted to follow up on that. I wanted to follow up on that. And so I called my husband, because it's nice to have somebody to talk about this stuff with and he's super used to it. He deals with it all the time and he's all in for me. And so he, I was talking to my husband and told him I was going to channel River Phoenix today because that's who was was with me, really prevalent right before I stepped into channel. And then after, of course, I contacted him and said, okay, so I need to do some fact checking. Let's have some, I want to talk to you about some things that came up in the session. So we did and he, he had said that there's a couple other things to it when I'm looking at, I have a little notebook in front of me. I want to get to a couple of other things too. Let me just write this down so we can revisit a couple of things I shared. I have more information about it now. So he shared that four years after his death, there was a couple of things that came out 1997 was significant and significant in connection to River Phoenix because there's some things that came out. There were a couple of songs that he collaborated on with the group Red Hot Chili Peppers, I believe. And I don't know if he just collaborated with one person from that band or if it was a whole group, but some of the songs came out that he was accredited with. There's also a reference to him and some musical or a play. And there was also a book that was dedicated to him as well that came out that year. So there were some things that came out during that time. I'm not sure if this is what, why I got that timeline, but I feel like there is significance. And I was talking to my husband, I said four years after he died, there's something important. And if you know him or know his family, it could be a family thing or a close friend thing, something important in 1997 to River Phoenix. If you know, please put that in the comments. 1997, River Phoenix, something important. Please put that in the comments below. I'm curious about that. I would like to know more from you. Also, I want to get into some of the vibes about, he talked about his crossing over his death and his funeral. And so at first, when I asked him, or I didn't, I shouldn't say I asked him. I don't remember if I actually point blank asked him and said, are you buried in California? You know, I kind of assumed that many actors or actresses are. That's my assumptions. That's my mind, my humaneness coming into session. And as I've recorded other videos before, it totally does that all the time. And guess what? This is a shocker, but I can be wrong. It happens, you know, I can misinterpret, I can just be wrong, because I'm projecting, right? This might be one of those cases, but I don't think so. Because I said right away, I said, yes, he was buried. He was, I remember how I used the words. His resting place was in California. And right away, yes, is what I felt, because he has an interesting sense of humor. And he can be funny without you don't, you're like, I don't really know you that well, so I don't realize how that you're being funny right now. But he was referring to his death, that he died on the streets in California. And that's like literally his final resting place, boom, right there, you know, on the sidewalk there. And he did talk very explicitly about pictures being taken of him when he's dead. He's like, I was a dead guy, land on the sidewalk and public view and people are taking pictures. He's like, like, this is so not kosher kind of thing. This is not cool. Like this is so not what I thought my life would be like, I don't want to be known for being the dead guy on the sidewalk. You know, I don't want to be known that you don't want to be known for that kind of a thing. And so then I discovered my husband actually told me, and this is really creepy. And some of you, if you're fans of River Phoenix, you will know this, that so during part of the video when we were channeling, I was talking to River, he gave me this distinct impression. So after his death, he showed me that he saw his funeral.  And like, he's like, very clearly, I see my body, he says, and it's dead, like it's not pretty. I'm looking at it. And it's not right after the moment of my death, it's in this like other place. And it's like being prepared or what have you. And I'm like, okay, my husband, when I talked to him about some of the stuff that came up in the session, he said, Oh my gosh, there's a famous story. That's one of the things my husband found when he googled it. As he said, there's a story about how somebody broke in to the funeral home and took a picture of him, his body in the casket. I mean, how, how rude is that to do to somebody? I mean, not just to the person like, River is not going to care, but for his family and his fans. Oh my gosh, that's horrible. That's not a good thing to do to be sharing that. And so that's just not, that's distasteful. At the very least, that's totally distasteful. And so I'm like, Oh my gosh, he didn't necessarily show me that, but maybe that's what he was doing when he was looking at his body like being prepared. And I said, it was a morgue, you know, maybe that's what he was doing. He was trying to acknowledge that without actually saying it. So I wouldn't look it up because I would totally be curious and look that up. And I'm glad I didn't. And I did not want to see that. So it's okay to see it in spirit and third eye, but not human. No, thank you. All right. But I also said very clearly in the video that it felt like he was cremated. And I never really, like to me, that's kind of a personal thing. And I've never had a spirits give me that feeling like, well, and I was cremated. I'm like, Okay, well, now it makes sense. And then I said, well, because it didn't, because it felt like maybe there was a memorial in California. I didn't know if like he was there and he was someplace else. But I said, I feel like you're more than one place. Like his, I said, I feel like his ashes or his, his funeral stuff was like more than one place. And it's wholly possible that they had a memorial in California. And he specifically said Irvine. I don't know what that connection is yet. You got to tell me if you know what Irvine means to River Phoenix. What does Irvine California mean to River Phoenix? Comments below, please. I'm so curious. I have no idea what that means. I really want to know you guys curious. And but he was cremated. So after that funeral casket thing, he was actually cremated and his ashes were scattered at his family's land in Florida is what my husband said. And so I am like, oh, that totally makes sense. That totally makes sense, you know. And I mean, yeah, that just fits. But it's kind of strange because like I said, that's the first time I've ever had a spirit like let me feel or know how what happened after they died, like that, like the personal details, you know. So interesting. And I want to say also that in talking with him, he really felt like an old soul for sure. Like he kind of feels like a reincarnated old movie star. I described it to my husband. I'm like, he's very he's kind of mysterious, but really professional, but kind of could be really funny and like could really like his personality could be funny, but not in an out there kind of way, but just funny like knowing him and just really professional. Like he I think the part of the reason why and he loved movies. Oh my gosh, he loved film. Oh, so just loved it. Just cinematography. Oops, so that's my microphone here. Cinematography and just love film, just such a respect for film.  And it's totally possible wouldn't that be cool to know, huh? So but he has that kind of aura that energy about him. And so but I think the reason why I didn't want to I wasn't feeling good warm fuzzy vibes from him isn't because of his personality, it's because of the transition because of all the drama around his actual death and then aftermath. And not just the pain or the sadness from people but also that he also I mean it's so sad like after I connected to him I'm like it's so unfortunate that he didn't have what he couldn't he have done I compared him to Leonardo DiCaprio early on in the first video and it's like what could he have accomplished or what kind of legacy today I mean he would have been what like 48 and I mean can you imagine the cool stuff he could have done. So I will not but I don't want you to be sad about that I know it's hard not to it's kind of disappointing right at the very least but I will let you know that I do believe he reincarnates if he hasn't already done so I believe he will for sure. I definitely see that in the future if it hasn't already happened and I'm not 100% sure because I'm not checking in with him right now but so don't be don't be too sad for too long. All right. This is Bridget at above live channel remember the purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope remember it is your life so live it. Thanks for being here.


Question is from Will Spence. I understand you say nine to 18 sets per muscle group per week, but what do you define as a set when multiple muscles are working at once? For example, would five cents sets of regular bench press count as five sets of tricep work as the triceps are still working? You know what? This is actually a good question. I remember thinking this myself as a youngster working out, and it is on the surface intuitive, right? I know that a pull up is going to work. I know it's a back exercise, but my biceps are quite involved, so are my forearm muscles. I know that a squat is my hamstrings, calves are somewhat involved. There's a lot of muscles involved with the deadlift, so this makes a lot of sense in terms of question. But just to simplify, when we say nine to 18 sets per muscle group, we're referring to exercises that are specifically designed to target, not just isolate, but just specifically designed for those body parts. So traditionally speaking, a bench press is a chest exercise. Traditionally speaking, an overhead press is a shoulder exercise. When it comes to arms, it's basically the isolation movements that would be considered arm exercises, except for some of the compound ones. Now that being said, I think that's why the studies say things like nine to 18s. That's a huge range, and it's a huge range because somebody who does all a bunch of machine isolation exercises probably is going to have to be somewhere towards the 18 range to get the similar benefits as someone who's doing a lot of compound lifts can probably just do nine of a lot of those exercises because they're doing those good lifts like squats and bench press and overhead press that are incorporating a lot of secondary muscles. So I think that's where you see a range like that. If you're doing nine sets and you're including the big lifts, at the end of the day, we thought through all of this when we programmed every program that we've done. So this is part of when you think of what you're paying for with a program for us is that we've taken into account what all the research says when we write it all out, okay, where's that sweet spot for the majority of people going to land so they're getting the optimal amount. I had a guy message me today about combining MAPS anabolic with MAPS performance, and I was like, whoa, no, no, no, message me. Oh, did he? Come on, guy. Yeah, we're probably talking the same thing, too. Yeah, no, guy. No, no, no, no, no. What I did tell him, I said, you could, let's say you love MAPS anabolic or you're following that, but you want to do more mobility work. I have told people, like, totally fine to take the trigger sessions out. Swap them out? Swap them out. Your frequency builders are definitely something you can swap. Right, and then swap it out for mobility instead of trigger sessions. But as far as your foundational days and your heavy lifting and how we've programmed that, no, you're getting ample amount of volume, and it's scaled within all the programs, so there's no reason for you to try. You're not going to get more results by adding more or combining programs together. No, you're actually bringing up a good point, though. Isolation exercises. Your body has a, typically, is generally speaking, a higher capacity and resilience towards isolation type movements than compound movements, and typically a higher resilience to machines over freeway exercises. So what does this mean for you? Well, this means that if you want to do a lot of sets and you want to add a ton of volume, but you don't want to overtrain, then you can start to throw on those isolation movements, because the compound ones tend to blast your body and your central nervous system a little bit more. In fact, studies actually show this. Studies show that going to failure, okay, this is where you lift a weight to the point where you can't lift it anymore with good form. So you literally lift until you fail for a set. It's like the top of intensity. I mean, you could push it past that, but that's just insane. And studies show that that, for the most part, is too much intensity for most people. But there is one caveat. Sometimes going to failure for isolation movements, totally fine. It's because it doesn't hammer the body as much as these compound movements. So that is an important thing to know. When you look at your total workout, if you're designing your own workout, let's say you don't want to follow one of our programs that's written for you, you want to kind of figure out your own thing. You're like, I want to add five sets of volume to my chest workout. You might want to start with five extra sets of isolation type movements on top of what you've been doing, just to kind of feel it out. Throwing five sets of compound movements might be too much. Maybe too taxing. It might be too taxing. So it's totally true. Your body's ability to recover and handle and adapt to an exercise. There's a lot of things that contribute to that. Intensity is one of them. And then the kind of exercise. The exercises that tend to be the most taxing also tend to be the most effective. This is why exercises like deadlifts and squats and overhead presses just give you more bang for your buck. Well, that's why I'm always kind of focused in that direction first. Like, how can I incorporate these compound lifts in the most effective exercises? Then I'll structure in more of those other isolation type movements to then build up the volume around those lifts. Yeah. When I go to the gym on my off days, just like I'm bored and like, I want to go to the gym and do some extra exercises. I do isolation and machine exercises because I know that that's my body can handle a little bit more, but not too much more. So I walk around, I use machines and isolation exercises and I'll push up more towards the 18 sets per muscle group per week by doing it that way.


Also, I'm gonna be trimming my ends and Morse the rides in my hair towards the end of the video So I'm gonna be using kinky tresses buttercream to help with these twisted things with Loose two-strain twist you guys and that right there is the product by kinky tresses. You want to start Twisting your hair at the root fairly tightly, but not too tight and then in the middle I will start twisting loosely and then towards the ends start twisting back tightly Now I have gotten comments from you guys those of you who have problems with your hair unraveling I know have that issue, but if you do I would recommend using a hair gel And make sure that you twirl your ends. So yeah, yeah, my hair is pretty long now But again, I did blow it out the ends are kind of ready. So like I said, I will be taking some Scissors and do what's called dusting my ends. This is not a true trim This is just searching and destroying taking a little bit more of that buttercream and again Twisting my hair tightly Now you guys this is one of the ways that I retain a length I have a lot of hair.  I have a lot of hair I have thick hair.  So now what I'm gonna have to do you guys you can see here My ends don't look good. So I'm gonna go through here and start clipping some of my ends. Okay It's going ahead and going through and take it down some of those larger twists to set smaller And again, the only reason why I'm doing this is if I do decide to style my hair differently I want the twist to look uniformed. Okay. I'm one thing I do want to mention is that you can wash your hair in twists I'm pretty sure most y'all know this but the only thing with me personally is like I like to unravel my twist when it comes to Conditioning. Okay. So as far as length go and how long I leave these in three weeks I have left them in longer, but then my hair started to lock up. Okay started to get locks You know, I got product going everywhere Yeah, so if you can leave them in longer kudos to you But just personal preference for me at three weeks. I take my hair down for a banking twist out I will be linking in the card several videos on my previous video Excuse me on how I set my hair in these twists and also how I style my hair now My styling is a little limited nowadays because I'm not going anywhere. We're quarantined. We're shut down So I just do a bun. So all right, you guys just taking a little bit of my oil mixture Applying it to my scalp and I'm gonna give myself a little scalp massage. Okay All right, so this is the second week. This is my definition of styling my hair Adding some of these jewels hair jewels to my hair that I got from Sally's I'm gonna be adding the Jane quarter revitalizing revitalizing leaving spray to my hair And I'm also going to be using a little bit of this Camille Rose honey leave-in. This is a very thick I know really thick Leaving conditioner and I only use this I don't want to say only but I try to only use this particular product on my hair When it's into us now if you see here, I'm only applying the The leave-in conditioner half way through my shaft half way through the my hair shaft and towards my ends I do not recommend doing this if you really need to moisturize your hair What I'm trying to do you guys though is to catch my hair before it gets dry This is a tip I got from green the green beauty channel is to actually Moisturize your hair before it gets dry. So my hair isn't necessarily dry right now Which is why I only added the product to the middle of my hair towards the ends that way There was the same hair oil mixture that I use when I was setting my hair again adding it towards the end So y'all I'm very boring when it comes to styling my hair nowadays. This is just the closer with my hair It looks like I'm gonna show you the back I think what I'm gonna do is just pull my hair in a bun that is about it honey That is it. So at night I do wear a satin bonnet and that is it you guys. Thank you so much for watching