In this episode of Mind Pump, we answer questions from our audience, just like you. Now, if you want to ask us a question that we can answer in an episode, go to our Instagram page, Mind Pump media, post your question underneath the qua meme. And if we like it, we'll pick it and we'll answer it for you. This episode was just for you. And then, uh, in the beginning of the episode, we start out by having fun conversation. We talk about things that are in the news. Uh, I tend to bring up studies so we could talk about, you know, scientific studies. We talk about our sponsors. Here's what we talked about in this episode. We started by talking about the cyber truck from Tesla. I think it's going to be a huge success. Uh, but Adam and Justin think it's ugly.  And this is, we'll see how well this episode ages and who turns out to be right.  Go granny. She actually smashed a table on him. That's pretty awesome. Then we talked about one of our new sponsors, magic spoon. 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Or do these people just want to lay naked, spread their butt cheeks and making up excuses to do it? Then we talked about cow VR. That's right. They're giving cows experiences with virtual reality to increase their milk production. Adam is actually a cow expert. So we got to give us his input. They're probably playing Mario Kart. Then we talked about macular degeneration and how scientists think that the rate of macular degeneration in, in the younger population as they get older is going to start to explode because of our exposure to blue light that comes off of electronics. And we speculated that, uh, it's probably going to become mandatory at 10 companies to wear blue light blocking glasses. Now, our favorite brand of blue light blocking glasses is Felix Gray. These glasses look good and they don't change the color and tint of what you're looking at, like other brands. Uh, now we have a hookup for you. If you go to Felix Gray glasses, Felix is spelled F-E-L-I-X. 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The next question, this person wants to know, uh, if drop sets or strip sets are useful for the beginner or intermediate lifter. So this is where you lift a weight for as much as you can, drop it, you immediately go to a lighter weight and do more reps. Strip it down. Uh, the next question, um, this person wants to know what we would consider to be an overall healthy and balanced individual and the final question. This person wants to know what our opinion is on yoga. Uh, so what we think about yoga, its benefits and its drawbacks. Also, if you're listening to this episode when it first gets released, you are lucky. You're catching our biggest sale of the year in its final hours. It's the mind pump black Friday sale. Ready for this 50% off everything, every program, all of our guides and all of our mods, except for maps, power lift is 50% off. Here's what you do. Go to maps, fitness products.com and use the code black Friday 50. So that's B L A C K F R I D A Y five zero. No space for that discount, but that's not all. We're also offering an additional 25% off all of our bundles. Now bundles are where we take multiple maps programs and put them together based off of different goals. Like if your goal is maximum fat loss or your goal is maximum muscle building or you're somebody that travels a lot. We take our maps programs that are appropriate, put them together. We discount them over 30% off retail. And right now for black Friday, we take an additional 25% off for that sale. Use the code B F bundles. And that's also found at maps, fitness products.com. Yeah. Wait till the wait till we're recording before you guys start this. Are we on now, Doug? Oh, all right. So what's you guys talking about? What are you saying? Why don't you say that again? We're talking about your side of truck. I was just thinking about it.  Hey, I want a lot more triangle.  I would say said nobody at all.  You know, apparently almost 200,000 people disagree with us. Is that where we're at? They they have pre sold over 10 billion dollars worth of trucks. Now I know what you're going to say.  But did they do the same thing? So that's a hundred because it's 250,000 pre orders is what I saw. Yes, which which when they come through because all reserve when they come through, it's over 10 billion dollars. I'm not that impressed, though, still with that. No, I know you're so impressed with that number, but Chevy and Ford do a hundred thousand trucks every single month. That's not fair. You can't compare Tesla to Chevy and Ford. No, you can't do that. You got to compare them to what they did brand new. And as far as the pre orders are concerned, when they did the Tesla Model 3, the first few days, they had 13 billion dollars in pre order sales and almost all of them came through. It's also a launch. Come on, guy.  No marketing. You're in the business of launching. No, no, no marketing. OK, now everybody knows Tesla, though. No marketing. Come on. He was he was OK. No traditional marketing. But it got marketed, brother. We're talking about it. That launch was the marketing. It was all over TV. How much money do you think companies spend on marketing when they launch a new car? Probably a ton. Hundreds of millions of dollars. He did none of that. He did a launch on video. Nobody saw it before that. The argument isn't that it's not profitable. OK, the argument is not that it's a lame truck, bro. No, lame. It is lame, dude. And the 200,000 people that bought it, more than half of them are probably from the Silicon Valley or not from the Midwest. I mean, do the math. That's probably it's probably all the husbands of the guys that drive Prius. That's that's who that's who ordered that. Oh, my God, I mean, that's we'll see. Talk to me after a large demographic. Talk to me six months from now or after everybody here's my drives prediction. Here's my prediction. It's going to change the truck industry in some fundamental but subtle ways. First off, this thing is subtle. Yes, this is it goes zero to 60 in 2.9 seconds. OK, it can tow 14,000 pounds. It has a payload capacity of 3500 pounds over a 500 mile rate distance on one charge. It's got a hundred cubic feet of enclosed bed area, which is insane, and it's enclosed. It can cover itself up. Wow. It seats six. It's got the adaptive air suspension and you can get the beginning model for under 40 grand. Yeah, but did Bob Seeger write a song, you know, for it? Whoa, like a rock. Oh, my God. I don't think so. Hey, don't think so, bro. That's it's it's it's extremely successful launch.   It's well, maybe you guys don't want it.  Some people are extremely loyal to like like brands and to to an extent, I kind of am. But then I'm also the same guy, too. I mean, the last two trucks I had before were Chevy. And I I switched to GMC. This this last this last purchase that I made because I don't like the way you're the one. I don't like the new ship.  Well, this is a different truck. You know what I'm saying? Be different. You don't want to be like everybody else and get a fucking. That's the message. Be different. You know what I'm saying? No, dude, it's got some crazy added things that you can add on like the the quad that comes with that you can get also after you buy the truck. And then it's got this like this tent that you can use for all the people in San Francisco, right? Bro, was that like a tortilla champ? Actually, hold on a second. All the quads you see drive around to go in San Francisco. Hold on a second. I'm about to drop it. It'll sit in a living room like mine. I'm about to drop some clown on you guys.  Oh, that's a good question. Right. Most people owned like you clowns. You got your six inches.  I go to the dump all the time. Pismo out of the dunes up to Tahoe to go snowboarding.  I can drive my all wheel drive at the same place every weekend.   We'll see about that when we go to Tahoe. We'll see if you're in post-mortem selfies.  I'm doing manly things. Look at me. I just forget to do that. No, but honestly, most people buy trucks in America. They're the top selling vehicle in America as a truck, more than any of the car. Most of these people don't use the trucks for truck activities, right? They use them just as a car. Maybe.  Barely. Not barely. Yeah. No, not barely. I've had it for what, four years in the last 10 years.  So do the math. I'm doing probably 20 to 30 visits every single winner up to there. I've got an ATV that I pull and have sand paddle. So I go out on the beach.  You never, when's the last time you used your ATV and sand? I've got it. Yeah. My ATV's been sitting in my living room and you know that.   No, but most this is true, though. Most people buy trucks because they like them. They like the way they look. That's why trucks now are the interiors are so nice. They have like a lot. You're super spacious. Yeah. You don't need the SUV anymore.  And the truck market is not like what we used to think it was. It's very different. Now people just like trucks.  We live in California in the Silicon Valley. You are so disconnected from the rest of the United States. Yeah. I want to see, yeah, Middle America driving these things around. I just do. Well, I don't think you'll see a lot of Teslas at all in Middle America anyway.  I know. You don't see any, yeah. No, you drive around San Jose. Oh, I would love to see. How many people that bought this truck that were not from LA to San Francisco area? I'm willing to bet that at least 80% of those purchases came from that. Yeah, all up and down California. No, you're right because the charging stations are, you know, a lot of them are concentrated in these big urban areas. And I've been to other states and I remember when I drove through Yellowstone and through all the states around there, I didn't see a single Tesla, which when I'm in, this is no joke. If you don't live in California or especially the Bay Area, I will not, I cannot go through a day and not see at least five, at least five Teslas. Yeah, they're everywhere. So that's true. You're right. And I don't think they're going to have the same penetration as Ford and Chevy, but this is going to be a success. It's funny because it's funny to talk about because I really am pulling for Tesla as a company, but I just, I can't get behind this design, dude. Really? I like Star Wars. It looks like it belongs to the Star Wars. I do, but like, you know, like that's fantasy, bro. It's not reality.  If they did a launch with Star Wars, you would have totally won.  It's hilarious. No, I'm not doing that. That'd be so awesome. I always got my dog licking Chewbacca. I'm with you, Justin, on that. Like I'm a fan of, I mean, I've been sharing his tweets just in the last couple of weeks. I'm a fan of Elon Musk. I'm a fan of Tesla. I think it's pretty cool that they've created something that competes as far as torque and horsepower and towing capability as the Ford's and Chevy's and Dodge's that are out there.  But I'm also, I like design. I like the way some design, and I think it looks like a fourth grader designed it. Did you see the challenge between Ford and Tesla? Okay, so they're on round two now, right? Yeah, so Tesla initially, which is brilliant. So, you know, just a little history, whenever you do challenge competitions with another brand, you tend to increase the sales of both brands. Because you make people feel like they have to pick. Pepsi thing. Exactly. So, what Tesla did, what he did, which is brilliant, is he did a video where it was a towing battle with the Ford F-150 and the Cybertruck. And the Cybertruck pulled the F-150 uphill while the F-150 was even trying to go. It couldn't compete. Now, Ford came back and said, that's not fair. You guys have a heavier truck. We got to have better tires than that. So Ford came back and said, let's do this again. We'll pick our truck. Will they get like a duly, like 1500 truck or something? Well, Elon agreed. Now, this is the best free publicity you could ever ask for. Yeah, see, that's crazy. Tactics like that are, again, you said there's no marketing. There's great marketing right there. They spend money on it. The great marketing. And when you understand physics, if you have a truck that outweighs by 500 to 1,000 pounds, that has way more advantage just in that alone. You know what I'm saying?  And who's going to win in tug-of-war out there? Also, there's also the science of electric engines. Low-end torque, electric engines are superior, just in pure efficiency. You hit the pedal to go and it's instant power. Immediate. A gas engine needs to generate some energy through the combustion process or whatever. So when it comes to towing or just low-end torque, electric engines are superior. There's always the downfall of electric engines has always been the capacity too. They say it's 500 miles in terms of how much distance they can do with one charge on their top model. What does that turn into when you're actually towing heavy weight and you've got a heavy payload? Probably not 500, right? Who knows? And I'm sure you don't want to get stuck with a car and not be able to charge it within five seconds. Right, yeah. Well, the juicer you run in. The real test will be when people get out and you use them. And everybody uses them for their daily use. That's when we're going to win. Someone tries to load it up and they realize the bed is six inches shorter, smaller, and the average things you're used to throwing in the back of your truck doesn't fit. It doesn't fit rubber in there very well. Right, this is when you actually do drive it off-road and you're hurting cattle with it. If actually somebody who actually has cattle would even think about buying like this truck, but when we start seeing that, that's when we'll know.  Bro, the thing about Tesla, and I said this before, that's interesting, people treat it like a tech company. They don't treat it like a car company. So it's like, think about a tech company. When a new device comes out in tech, it's about how cool the features are. Cars typically aren't like that. People are like, oh, is it a cool looking car or whatever? Tesla can get away with a lot of, they can get away with a weird looking truck. Like if Ford released an electric truck that looked like that, they would have died. Oh, they got lambasted.  So it's really interesting to see them kind of break all the rules and still succeed. And you know what? Tesla sales, as people have used their cars, have gotten better. But the stock even gets traded like a tech company. So you see it bounce up and down and it's interesting. In his defense, if you believe that we're in the next, there's people, and I believe Elon Musk believes this, then the next decade, the landscape of transportation is going to completely be changed. And if you've built a car that you can do upgrades virtually like theirs, and I'm sure the platform would be able to connect to whatever self-automating software that comes out in the future. So if you believe in that, the direction he's going is smart and is the future, and is he will win the long game potentially. I just think that he missed the mark on the design of this one. Yeah, a lot of people are saying that. But again, and I have a client who used to work, who's a very high up for Tesla.  Yeah, I told you that. That's what I mean by that. They literally, like a recall or something comes out, they do an update on your- Automatic through Wi-Fi. No, my buddies literally like, oh, we just sent out an update today that lowers everybody zero to 60 time by 0.3 seconds. Right. Or we just sent an answer. You know what I mean? We just did an update up and now you're better, your car is more efficient. You just saved X amount of miles. It's crazy. Yeah, I know that.  Because right now, gas stations are designed for the us, for the consumer to park. When it's a bunch of self-driving cars, they're all going to be electric. They're all going to drive, at the end of the day, they're going to drive to their own charging station. So bro, it's going to be electric. It's just far more convenient.  Like I never watched those futuristic movies go like, oh, that's a cool looking car. It looks spacey and weird. They always have these coats with really big shoulders that go way too far out.  I feel like we should get salad jacket like that. 250,000 people that will. Everybody.  Now you're creating a new standard for people to wear. Everybody's wearing shiny clothes. Remember Bill and Ted's where they're all up there like, be excellent.  Yeah, no, that's totally true. I don't know. So I feel like Elon kind of, he lives in fantasy land like that a little bit. It's like the Jetsons. That's where the motivation of these designs come from. And there obviously is, I mean, there's at least 200,000 people. He said Blade Runner was the inspiration. If you guys have seen the original Blade Runner, it does look like that. Here's another interesting question is, do you think that they would do as well as they do if Elon wasn't the CEO or if something happened? Definitely not. No. I think there's a lot of that. Like he's such a. There's so many people that believe in him. Yes. That's what it is really. 100% it's that. There's so many people that believe in him and are fans of him that it's like half of those. I would, you know, half of those people are probably purchasing just out of support of what he's doing. He's just a great American hero, you know, entrepreneur, innovator.  I think a big part of their success is because it's him, dude. Anything he does, you know what I mean? Anyway, very interesting. Which just gives you the false perception of the actual, how cool the truck is. Right? Yeah. I mean, you're actually just proving our point. Like nobody, nobody ran out and bought a Ford because who the CEO of Ford is, right? You don't even know who the Ford CEO is. Yeah, I don't know.   You know what I mean? This is his disco album to me. Maybe, let's see what happens. James Hackett. Yeah. Yeah. Nobody goes, hey, I bought a Ford Raptor because I believe in what James Hackett is doing. Nobody cares about that. Nobody cares about that.  So that's my guy. There's definitely a lot of people that bought this truck because they're big Elon fans. Don't be surprised if in a couple years I end up rolling up with a space truck. Speaking of badass, did you guys see in the news there's this lady in New York.  I guess she's done a couple powerlifting meets or whatever, but some like intruder, home intruder was like knocking on the door and then kicks like the door open and breaks it open. She hears all the commotion, runs down there and like just makes a decision that, oh, I'm going to grab this table and just bash him to smithereens with it. What? Yeah. Yeah. She just like literally takes this table, smashes it over this guy and I guess through all the commotion the guy falls down and then she like jumps on top of him to pummel him until the cops get there. Wait a minute. She, she picked up a table. A table. And blasted him with the table. And literally smashed the table like half. Why half? What was the reason why? Because he broke it into her home and was trying to rob her. Oh, 82 years old. Caught on film? No, this was like recounted and the cops got there within like five, 10 minutes. So like she was, she was like still like kicking him and doing all kinds of stuff. Dude, how, oh, there it is. Look at her. She's a badass. Yeah, she's, look at her guns.  He had to be taken to the hospital. Yeah. Wow.  Oh yeah. You know what I mean? He's going to go to- He's going to get roasted in jail.  What a, what a testament though to like lifting weights deep into your, you know what I'm saying? That's all the sales we need. Like, come on, let's get people lifted weights. Look at, you know, that's the thing people always ask about.  Let me tell you something, you take an 82 year old that has lifted weights for decades and you put them up against or compare them to anybody in that age category. And it's such a big difference. You might as well be talking about two different species almost. You know what I'm saying? Like the average eight, think about it this way. The average 82 year old could not only not lift up a table, but probably the average 82 year old might have difficulty walking for a mile without assistance. Right. Here you have an 82 year old lady.    Wow, that's so awesome. Sorry. Smash. Dude, I'll tell you what's super annoying though right now to me is my dairy intolerance.  Because you're watching me eat all the cereal? We just started our... Oh, you're going to talk about them right now. Yeah, dude. We just started our first sponsorship commercial or whatever with Magic Spoon. And the macros on this thing are... I don't know how they do it. Bro, it's... I mean, it's got dairy protein, so I can't eat it. My kids love it. But I love it, dude. We got connected with them first with Max Lucavir. So heard about it with Max. Max is a really good friend of ours and called us right away because we sent him a message like, hey, what's this Magic Spoon? We were looking at the macros.  I'll have some sent over to you guys. I'll introduce you to the company. It's unbelievable. They've only been in business for about four... This at this time was four months and they're exploding. And it seemed like one of those too good to be true because I've tasted like cereals before that are quote-unquote protein cereals. And they're all gross. Yeah, they're gross. And then the macros are really whacked. They just adjust it by the serving size to make you think that you're getting... Yeah, they say a high protein, but it's like six grams of protein. Like a typical average bowl of cereal, not a massive bowl, like an average bowl of cereal, it's about two cups of cereal. So when you actually have two cups of cereal of this stuff, you're getting 36 grams of protein. And that's not including the milk. And only 300 something calories.  Which also makes my wife and I celebrate with my youngest who is just like so carb-driven. Well, I haven't had cereal for like a decade, dude. And I was so pumped to have this. Well, dude, look at the macros. Watch some Saturday morning cartoons, dude. So three quarters of a cup. So this is just... So you talked about two cups, which is normal. Nobody eats three quarters of a cup. But let's look at just three quarters of a cup, which is a tiny serving. Look how balanced it is. 12 grams of protein, eight grams of carbs. There's only... There's zero grams of sugar, six grams of fat. Look at the ingredients. That the protein blend is milk protein isolate, whey protein isolate. Then it's coconut oil, tapioca flour. They have a sweetener blend, which is stevia, monk fruit, alulose. There's chicory root fiber. And then this one's a chocolate one. So it's got cocoa powder and then salt. Like, and the macros are amazing. Like they...  It's so good. I literally sent out boxes for the holidays to all of my family. For the first time, I feel like we have a product that we're working with that even like my non-fitness... Yeah, non-fitness people are like cool with it. Yes. So, and all of them, everybody loves it. Everybody loves it. You know where I see this exploding? Exploding. Bodybuilding. Yes. Oh, just wait. The bodybuilding community hasn't even got a hold. It's only... This company has only been around. It's exploding. It's only been around for like five, six months now. We tried to buy... We tried to buy shares, which we missed. There was an investment opportunity. Thanks, Max, for telling us late in the game. But once we tried it, we're like, I want to buy... Well, this is nice to have an option.  They're always like, you know, asking, when again can we have vacation cereal?  But this... Ah, this makes it so much better. It's like, I don't have to like... I don't have to like just give them some garbage. Currently, they have four flavors right now. Do you guys have a favorite flavor right now? Yeah, the fruity one. The one that's like pretty... Cinnamon for me. Oh, you like this? I love the cinnamon.  And it's nice to kind of get like the variety box where you get one of each that they send because they ship... It ships directly to your house, which is rad, too. I love that. That's, you know, so convenient. And I do like all of them. I would say the cocoa is my least favorite. Then the... Yeah. The plain... What's the plain vanilla one? Yeah, there's vanilla. There's the fruit loop. Blueberry now. And there's also... Oh, there's blueberry? Yeah, there's blueberry. And then there's also the pumpkin spice one. Oh, so they have six flavors, then. Because there was only four the last time. Those are the latest ones.  But yeah, I like the cinnamon one because it reminds me... I was like a cinnamon toast crunch guy. Yeah. Except you don't get diabetes by eating this one. Exactly, exactly. Thank you. Anyway. Hey, I saw... I've turned on last night. I only got about halfway through because Katrina and I were working on some things. But I did watch quite a bit. The documentary you brought up the other day, Beakrum. Oh, dude. Yeah, I watched that with Courtney last night, too. Oh, did you? What did you guys think? Oh, man. You know what? Honestly, this is why we do what we do, is what I feel. Like, I just feel like there's so many people out there that need help and are willing to just listen to somebody that's going to make them feel better. And the thing about these practices is they do hold weight. Like, they're legit practices that will help people out there. But then they're being led by this total douche bag. When I watch stuff like that, I'm in awe of the how... Like, the spell that people like him, cult leaders do this, world leaders do this, you know, nation leaders. Adolf Hitler did this. Like, they have this ability to compel people to do what they want, even when it's against their own normal, logical reasoning. Wow. When you talk about... I actually just did an interview where I was talking about a similar topic to this.  And to a fault, right? Like, people do this all the time. This is what I was talking about in the interview, is that they were asking my thoughts on training modalities and diet, what I think about diets.  And it's people, what ends up happening is somebody gravitates towards some sort of a modality, like yoga.  They have all, they have hip pain, they have back pain, they got all this issue. They're broken. Yeah, they're broken. And you enter in this class and this guy makes it funny and enjoyable and engaging.  And a lot of what they say is right. Right. And what he says and what he's teaching you as far as the philosophy behind the yoga is incredible. And it changes your life. And that just makes people fucking, everything else doesn't matter anymore. I believe whatever this person says. Just turn a blind eye to all these, like, red flags everywhere. And we see this across all modalities in fitness. How many times have you had a client who tells you what they need for their body? Because at one point in their life, they trained a certain way, they ate a certain way, and it gave them this amazing results and they identify so much with it. Well, there's this psychological phenomena that happens with us. And it was probably a product of evolution where we kind of create these shortcuts where if somebody does something exceptionally well, we tend to assume that they do everything exceptionally well and that they're good people. Right. So like, you have an athlete who's an amazing athlete and you hear something bad about them and you almost, you don't want to believe it. You think, that can't be true. Michael Jordan is such a great guy or so-and-so such a great person. Or you see an actor. Bill Cosby loves Cody. Bill Cosby, he's like, or Michael Jackson. There's still people like, Michael Jackson has fans still, even though he did what he did and they probably admit. Oh, there's still people in denial of. Yeah, of course. For sure. It's crazy to me. And so it's interesting. It's like, if you're born with that level of charisma and you're able to communicate great information, you have a powerful tool and is your responsibility to use it for good. Now, the problem is that people who have the ability to communicate that way and have that charisma, oftentimes it comes with a healthy dose of narcissism. And here's the thing about narcissism. We learned this when we interviewed that psychologist years ago that people who are entrepreneurs or people who put themselves on camera and do that kind of stuff, they tend to be ranked higher in narcissism than other people. Not a bad thing. It's actually essential. You, in order to put yourself out there and take risks, you kind of have to believe. You gotta believe in yourself. Yeah, you gotta believe in yourself. And that's, there's a healthy amount of that.  I think a lot of times these people, and part of why they have so much success and actually gain this much power is, I like to think- We give it to them, by the way. Well, I think their intentions are pure from the start. I think it's just the power of the ego and keep getting fed.  And it's like, I don't think- You just got Chuck Berry. I don't think he did that to the first girl that he had sex with. I think that he had hundreds, maybe thousands, and you just, your ego inflates so much that you start pushing boundaries and doing things. I would think a guy like this, because when you watch the documentary, I feel like his intentions and his teachings and how it changed his life and that, hey, he wanted to go around the world and share this with everybody else. I believe it's pure, but then that's the power of the ego, is that it gets fed so much, you start smelling your own farts. Or making other people do it. I like that loop there. It becomes poisonous. It starts to poison.  Which is the very people who desire to lead, who desire to be in charge, are probably the very people who don't want to put in charge. It's usually the case. Yeah, why do you want to be the one in so badly? Why do you identify so strongly with that? And that means you probably have a, they're very vulnerable to your own ego and narcissism. It's almost like George Washington, you know, we gave them the king. When he won the revolution, they told him that. They tried to make him king because he led the military to win the revolutionary war. He turned it down. That's a great leader. But most people, do you think they would? You think most presidents- Right, they said he could have all the power. Forget Congress, forget everybody else and making this a democracy. You could have all the power. Imagine that, imagine that. 100% Trump would take that. Oh yeah, imagine if Trump was so popular that everybody voted and we said, we want you to be king forever. You think you'd be like, no, I'm not going to do that. That's against the con. You'd be like, absolutely, I'll do that. No problem. Everybody says I should. Therefore I should. I'm chosen by God or whatever. You don't agree. You're executed. It's crazy.  I know. It's like, what is going on? Still waiting for his comeback. He drank way too much of the Kool-Aid. Yeah, that's unreal. Anyway, talking about crazy stuff, have you guys seen, have you guys heard of perinium or also known as butthole sunning? Have you guys heard of this? Oh, that was the thing you shared in the four content. There's people. I saw you share that in the four. I thought that was a joke. Like it was a meme at first, like as I saw somebody in like this, this baby pose thing where they're grabbing their toes and then like their butt was pointing the sun. No, let me read to you what some of these influencers, these are fitness and health influencers, by the way. And I hate the fact that people call them the same like breatharian kind of people. Here's what, I'll tell you what I related to now. But here's some of the quotes. In a mere 30 seconds of sunlight on your butthole. You will receive more energy from this electric note than you would in an entire day being outside with your clothes on. Says an influencer who goes by the name Raw of Earth. By the way, if someone ever comes up to you and you say, hey, what's your name? He's like Raw of Earth. Probably not the guy. Totally someone I want to hang out with. Yeah, yeah. You should be friends. Yeah, dude. You sound like a motivated guy. You know what this sounds like to me? So there are some, there are some ancient, you know, practices that talk about something like this. You know what I think? Are there? Yeah, maybe. But you know what I think? Well, there's, I feel like there's a little bit of logic here. She doesn't hear butthole charging. You have an area that is- That never gets a sun. Right, that never gets a sun. So it's extremely sensitive to it. So it probably uptakes and absorbs at a faster rate than other places on your skin. So the initial probably surge of whatever benefits that you would get from the sun from exposure on the rest of your body. Maybe it's compounded for the first few times you do it. I think it would give you negligible effects from what you're saying. But here's what I think. But I think that's where you're, that's where the, I mean, what, this is science for you. This is what we do in our space all the time. We find something that gives a little bit- We need a little bit of stretch.  We find something. I mean, we see this in the supplement industry all the time. It's like, oh, take this and this, and this is going to improve recovery. Well, how much is that? Yeah, is it going to improve? No, not zero, one percent. Not even good, but a little sun won't you come? Yeah, that's what it was for. So here's my scientific, I'll go with science also. Did humans evolve to have lots of sun exposure on their butthole? No.   Plus all the bugs. Yeah, I mean, you know what I think it is? I think it's, I think it's fitness influence. I'm doing the quote here because they're not really fitness influences, but I think it's fitness influencers who really want to come up with an excuse to lay naked in the sun. To get naked in nature. And to lay... They've already seen this.  That's like the new thing right now, period, is just the nudity on Instagram. You want to be naked?    Like, this is good for my health. That's why I'm doing it. No, you want everybody to see your butthole.  Yeah, it's not sugar coated. Anyway, here's some more interesting stuff. So I just saw this article. I thought it was really interesting. So in Russia, in a bid to get more and better milk out of their cows, Russian farmers have strapped VR headsets onto the cows. What? You're lying to me right now. Like, putting them on a beach? Sort of, God. And so in the... To, like, relax them? Yes. Oh, wow. Now, this... Okay, this makes a lot of sense for a guy who's been milking cows for a portion of his life. Like, you know, when... That's right. You're the cow expert on this. So when... Here we go. Wait, when... It's just like anything else, though. Like, when you get the maximum results from the cow as far as the amount of milk... And then let me tell you, it varies. Like, so you have the exact type of breed of cow, similar in size, and I can milk one, and he could produce me three and a half... She. Yeah. Yeah, hopefully. Sorry, did I say he? A little Freudian slip there, Adam. I could milk an LMD. You don't sound like an expert right now. I could... Did I say you have to really say it? You did. I could milk her and get three and a half gallons of real relaxed milk. And then the next one comes in, and she could produce two. So a gallon and a half of milk, one cow, you multiply that by hundreds, thousands of cows. That's a big difference. And so there's things that... There's techniques you do to relax the cow. They come in and I would talk to them and pet them. You dip iodine on their udders and that relaxes them and it releases a hormone and the milk drops down. So the more comfortable... We had... I played certain music inside the barn that was more therapeutic and relaxing than something that's like hard rock and roll. Like, so you do things like that. And because I would be tracking milk, the amount that we produce. And you love numbers so much. I like... I could just picture it. Yes. So how you fed them, how much... They did respond to you on me. All those things started... So I'm not surprised that somebody thought of this that, hey, what is the most ultimate way we can probably put these cows in a relaxed state and let's put some VR. Because they put horse blinders and horses to not scare them and stress them out, right? Makes sense, huh? No, it makes total sense. It's so funny to me because these cows are like in an alternate universe. Like, it's just wonderful. What I want to know is what they're watching. Yeah, exactly. Is it like cow porn? What do they get? That'll only work if you milk the male cow like you were talking about. Like what do they get? Like they see another cow going to get massaged or something like crazy. Isn't that insane? That's fascinating. That's so crazy. That is so fast. I wonder if it's like damaging to the eyes or anything like that. I don't know. Oh, that's a good... I'm glad you brought that up. I was reading more about blue light and its effect on the eyes. Do you know that they're projecting that age-related macular degeneration is going to increase dramatically because of technology, because of our exposure to blue light? So I was reading this thing. This is researched by the University of Toledo. Again, this is another university that has a study on this. Has revealed that prolonged exposure to blue light triggers poisonous molecules to be generated in the eyes light-sensitive cells that can cause macular degeneration. So they're saying we're being continuously exposed to blue light in our new environments and they expect this type of age-related blindness to accelerate big time. So as the generations now that are on computers and... Because really, we're talking about... Two decades. ...relatively recent, right? Two decades at most. I mean, just two decades ago, kids did not have iPhones. They didn't have little computer screens. They were... And we're not talking about little computers that we looked at when we were kids that were green, you know what I'm saying?  Good point. Like you have these vibrant, LED, bright, super light, high-definition lights that these kids are staring at and some of them... And mind you, I don't want to sound like fear-mongling, right? I don't think that you watch your favorite TV show every night. I don't think you're going to go blind because of that. But... If you work on a computer all day. But yeah, there's definitely people that I would be concerned about if you're somebody who already is letting your kids do it for hours on hours regularly on... During the day, they end up going to school using computers all day long. Then they go into a job where they're going to sit for eight hours to ten hours a day. And they're doing this for decades. Yeah, and you do it for a long time. To think that that wouldn't affect us... And to think it wouldn't affect us negatively to me is silly. Especially now that we have all the research that literally supports it, you know? I think this is what... So my kids know now. They know now when they're going to go on their computers that they got to put on their Felix Ray glasses. That's like just... And it sits on... Like my son, it sits on his desk. There's his computer. I don't have to tell him anymore. Now it's part of his practice. I think we're very close to companies just like wearing a hard hat or wearing any other safety seat belt in your car. Yeah, it's going to be a part of your job. You're going to show up at work.  But it's just good practices. Yeah, it's like why would you not do that if you were potentially putting yourself in harm's way on a regular basis like that? I think blue light blocking glasses especially the kind that don't change the color of what you're looking at like the ones that Felix Ray makes, I think that they're going to explode because of the awareness that's happening. They already are. I mean, I know they're... Oh, I think they're going to be partnered up with Google and Apple. Really? Yeah, these companies they know. And that's why they have the insurance thing where if you have the... Or what's it called the... What's it called, Doug? The FCF... What's the... The health savings account. Yeah, the health savings account that most people have that you can use that towards things like that and companies like Apple. Yeah, they know. Oh, that's crazy. So I think it's going to become standard for anybody that works on a computer all day long. Wow, that's cool. If you're on a computer all day long, I think it'll just become that. It'll be the norm. Oh, dude, another cool article that I read recently. I didn't know this. Did you know that there were nine different species of humans that existed on Earth right around the same time? Really? Thousands of years ago. Nine different... If there's nine different species, I wonder how many different genders there would be then. Just homeless. Yeah, well, let's not go there. Thanks, Adam. We're trying to get... Yeah, what are you trying to do, man? Well, how many are we at right now? Yeah, I don't know. What's the latest? I think they say infinite. I stop counting. Oh, it's infinite now? Two sexes, but an infinite amount of genders is what some people would say. Yeah, but anyway, so back to the article. So you know about Neanderthals. So that's one different species. There were also Denisovans and other species that we've identified, and they all existed around the same time. We know that there's lots of Neanderthal DNA in European people. East Asians, Polynesians, and Australians have DNA from Denisovans. There's DNA from another species that occurs in many Asian people. And then there's African genomes show traces of DNA from another archaic human species. Now, what's crazy about this, and here's the theory, because it's like, where'd they all go? What happened to all these human species? And the evidence... Didn't they interbreed? There was interbreeding, but then there's evidence to show that they were also intelligent, like Neanderthals were also intelligent, just like us, the species that survived.  And it was because of our ingenuity, our ability to work together, and our superior weaponry. So Neanderthals probably couldn't, for example, throw with as effective accuracy as we could. So we're the species of humans that has just had superior weapons. And humans are just... Survival the fittest. That's right.  You said nine different species? Nine is what they've identified. It's interesting. I remember when it came out that there was like a hobbit type. That's one of them. Yeah, like species that they'd found. And that was like a really interesting, because I always think Lord of the Rings tried to depict all these types of different species of human beings. And that was their thing. How cool would it be to... I mean, it would be so awesome to be able to have one of these other species, because they were probably very intelligent like we are, maybe different. But how interesting that would be to be able to talk with them and see what they're... Do you really think so? I think it's the opposite of that. I think they weren't, because then that's why they didn't survive. Well, the evidence that we have currently shows that they were intelligent. Like Neanderthals, we have the most evidence versus all the other species shows that they had. They did have weapons that they did have complex societies that they did have art. There's evidence of religion. So for all intents and purposes, definitely more intelligent than other animals that we have now on earth. Like other chimpanzees and dolphins and stuff like that. Like these were human species were probably far more intelligent. We just probably were better at conducting war or whatever, or out competing them.  How crazy is that? I don't know that we had DNA from all these. I knew Neanderthal. Yeah. Well, I remember to the Bering Strait, there was this whole population of... I guess, I don't know if it was an interbreeding of Neanderthal and Homo sapien, but there was something like that in that area, region that was unique, that was its own species. And then they came across and they they think that they were probably the very first like Americans in terms of like them coming down to South America and everything. Wow. It's so cool. It would be really cool to be able to see what they look like and how they lived or whatever. It's too long ago though. Oh, yeah. All right. First question is from Expect Vitality. How many seconds is too long to rest between reps to try to get a few more out? When should you just move on to your break before your next set? I like this question because... Yeah, because this is a traditional answer, but then there's also other ways of spacing reps out. Yeah. And there's not like a wrong or always right answer to this. And the way I make this decision is kind of based off of what current adaptation I'm chasing or what was the current goal that I wanted to achieve. Like for example, if I'm in the middle of like a maps aesthetic and it's bodybuilding and I'm in phase three, which is hypertrophy type focus, meaning I'm chasing the pump and I'm doing high reps, I'm going to always lean towards shorter rest periods. And it's not a big deal if I can't squeeze out as many reps. It's not as big of a deal if I can't lift a little bit more weight because that's not the main focus of that phase. And this is... We talked about this in an earlier episode of learning how to change your goals, right? And part of changing your goal isn't just, okay, my goal is to build some muscle right now. It's also like how would you build the program around that and how would you... You're focused your training. And so when you're focused on hypertrophy, building muscle and chasing the pump, which is high reps, low rest periods, I'm not really worried about squeezing... Giving myself longer rest to squeeze out a couple more reps or potentially lift more weight because that's not the main goal. But if I am doing something like what I'm in right now, which is running maps, power lift, and the goal is... I want to see my strength go up and increase every single time. So I'm going to lean on giving myself a little extra rest because I do care that every time I get under that bar, I'm hoping it's one of the best lifts I've had. And I'm able to lift more weight or more weight more times because that's the main focus of that. Well, now you're talking about sets. The question is asking about reps. No, no, yeah, same thing. Same application. Yeah, same application. It doesn't matter if it's reps, it's sets, it's the goal. And then because the goal is not centered around... That's a strength goal. To give yourself more rest so you can get out more reps, you're trying to increase strength there. And there are what are called cluster sets where you're doing as many reps as you can and then you wait 10 or 15 seconds and then do another X amount of reps and then right another 10, 15 seconds, do another X amount of reps. Now the traditional thing between reps is that as soon as you complete one rep, maybe a second or two and then you move into the next rep. But this can vary and kind of on the back of what Adam was talking about. When I'm trying to get a pump, I don't do a rep, pause for a second, do a rep, pause for a second. I go rep, rep, rep, rep. There's very little pause. I'm trying to squeeze as much blood in the muscle and get that pump. Now when I'm lifting heavy and I'm doing four reps, like I say I'm doing a squat, it's like one rep and then I sit at the top of the squat, catch a couple of breaths and then go back down. So it is a longer, and it follows a similar model to what sets, your rest of the sets would be. Yeah, I just pay attention to composure and like how that's affecting the quality of each one of the reps. If I'm like very much focused, like you said in a power lifter, like a strength phase, like that is my ultimate like attention in terms of like what, if I'm at the top of the rep, I just completed a rep, I need to go into another rep. But I'm feeling fatigue set on. I could take a few extra breaths and take a second and then drop back in. I'll do that because that's, I want to make sure like quality is top of mind. But if I am getting into like sort of a superset situation, my goals might be a little different because I'm dealing with a little less load. So therefore, at that point, I'm like, I'm more fighting the burn. Yeah, now the longest rest between reps that you're going to experience is when your goal is power, not strength. I'm talking about explosive power. So if I'm doing, and which is funny because when people, when I see most people in the gym doing explosive movements, they do the exact opposite. So let's say I'm doing- Jump boxes. Let's say I'm jumping on a box. So I'm working on explosive power. The way I'm supposed to do it is I explode up onto the box, I step down and I wait. Even though I'm doing five reps, I wait, gain composure, and then exert as much power again. The funny thing is with power movements, one of the main reasons why people do them wrong, besides the fact that they do them until they can't do them anymore, which is wrong, is they go jump, jump, jump, jump, and they treat it like jump rope or something like that. And now it becomes an endurance-based training. Totally. When you know what your goal is, that's why you should start with the goal. That's what I meant by. That's where I was going with that point that I was trying to make. It's like it really, there's not a wrong or right answer. It doesn't mean that somebody can't give longer, shorter rest periods with this example. It just means that understand what the main goal or adaptation is. If you're training for strength and or power, that type of training, gaining composure between each rep is completely fine because you're wanting to give your most in each one of those reps. Where if you're doing 12, 15 reps and you're trying to chase a pump in your supersetting, then it doesn't really matter if you fatigue early or you don't get as many reps out or the weight slider because it's not a strength or power type of adaptation.  Next question is from Curtis Blank. Are drop sets useful for the beginning or intermediate lifter? And if so, what's the best way to use them? Okay, so a drop set for people who don't know what that is, it's an advanced technique. What program did we include that in? We did that. Map, split, maps, PD. And I think aesthetic, we might have put one or two in there also. I know in Possibly. Map strong, there's something that resembles a drop set. So we have a handful. We have a lot of, yeah, a lot of, it's a good thing they're all 50% off anyway. Shameless blood. Boom, no, so here's the deal. So here's a drop set. A drop set is I do as many reps as I can with the weight and then I immediately move to a lighter weight and do as many as I can with that weight and then I immediately move again to a lighter weight and then do as many as I can. So it's called a drop set, also known as a strip set. Now it's an advanced technique. There is some value to it to it, but very little value to the beginner or the intermediate lifter. Now I'm not saying that they're not going to gain some value. There's always exceptions to the rule, but for the most part, if you're a beginner or intermediate, you should leave all these advanced techniques for when you're advanced because you're going to gain so much more from perfecting your technique, from focusing on traditional strength training and staying away from all these other advanced techniques, which really again, they offer a little bit of value, but you should save them for when you're advanced. You've got to look at it more as a novelty. So this kind of goes back to how long have you been in the game? Like what is your body going to respond to? If you stop responding to normal phases and techniques that are the foundational type techniques and you need a few more variables to mix it up, like this is a great interrupter in your program to then shock your body to start responding again by doing a totally new stimulus. So that's how we've programmed it intermittently into some of our programs is we show you how to intermittently introduce it. But honestly, the way I use something like this is dictated by time because it's rare that I don't have a whole hour or hour and a half that I've slotted for myself to work out, but it does occasionally happen where today is I've only got 30 minutes to work out and hey, I haven't done drop sets in six months. What a great time to incorporate something because I can get a pump, I can get a good workout in a shorter period of time because I'm doing movements like this where I'm doing reps, not resting, doing more reps, and then I can get out. And so to me, that's how I teach tools like this, like one similar to this, or things like HIIT. Like how often do I HIIT training? Very rarely do I HIIT training. Is there not great value? Is there not a bunch of science and studies that prove that it's valuable and beneficial? Sure, but I find the most benefit is to use it when I need it the most. When it is when I'm limited on time, that's when a 26 minute workout has got a lot of value to me. When I've got an hour, hour and a half to work out, traditional straight sets and foundational type movements and compound lifts and your traditional type of programming is gonna be extremely beneficial and ideal for most people, including your even advanced people. Now, because drop sets and strip sets are fatigue-based, there are certain exercises that are more appropriate for this kind of training. Typically, single joint isolation exercises tend to be awesome when it comes to drop sets or strip sets. Compound movements or complex movements, you can do drop sets and strip sets with them, but they're not as appropriate because as you fatigue, form starts to break down.   So I tend to only ever recommend drop or strip sets for isolation type movements unless specified for a particular type of goal. So if you wanna start to incorporate this, I would say start with and stick to isolation movements and stay away from the complex movements when doing this. Next question is from Mr. Rota. What do you consider an overall healthy individual? What makes for good balance? Well, that's a hard question to answer. That's gonna be different from time to time. From person to person, I think that there's... I think you say really well when you say things like, there's some general truths, but then there's gonna be a large variance in between individuals. Like some people probably need more in the relationship aspect of their life. And so therefore they're healthier if they pursue more of that because they need more of that. Some other people need something like yoga or something meditative because they have a super stressful job. And so they need something like that to help balance them out and make them more healthy and balanced. And so there isn't like a straight formula that I could give as a trainer that says, somebody who trains four days a week in the weights, two days of yoga, and spends five hours with their family a week is what I would consider a healthy person. It's like that dose of exercise, family meditation is gonna be dependent on the person, their levels of stress, their levels of need in all those areas. But I do think that the things that we talk about on this show with spiritual health, mental health, physical health, all these things, nutritional health, like all those things are important. Even monetary health, how you handle your money in your relationship with money. Right, great point. Yeah, and I'll tell you what, I think a lot of times people think balance is being like 33% here, 33%, 33% here. So now it's all balanced. No, life doesn't work that way.  Because there are real benefits to sometimes being obsessed and hyper focused. Now you got to utilize it appropriately, but let's say you start a new business and you want that business to succeed. You're going to have to have a certain level of obsession and dedication to what you're trying to do in order to accomplish particular goals. Now if that obsession stays with you for the rest of your life, it probably is going to be very imbalanced. Let's say you have a new baby. You got a new baby in your life. A lot of your time is going to be dedicated to that baby. Does that mean you're imbalanced? Well, if it becomes the rest of your life, perhaps, but in that moment, I think there's a lot of value to that. So this is a very difficult question to answer. Generally speaking, I think overall, are you, do you have a life that's full of meaning and purpose? Are you overly obsessed? Do you feel fulfilled? Those answers to those things will probably tell you if your balance is okay. I think too. I think there's moments where you feel you're hitting your stride. There's moments of clarity that things are working out a specific way because maybe all these things combined, all these variables in your life that you wake up and you're trying to be your best all the time. All of a sudden you're hitting all those buttons, but then it goes away. That's the beauty of life. You don't get that very often. And I don't think that people can maintain the quote-unquote balanced everything for very long. And so it's really up to just constantly striving to have that open growth-minded mentality towards all these components of your life that relationships, spiritual health, nutrition, all these things, let's try our best every day. Well, I think in order for you to find good balance, you first have to understand where you're personally out of balance. So if you're somebody who already doesn't, you're the, like Katrina is a good example, that's opposite of me in this scenario where she has better balance than I have in this, right? So she talks to her mom almost every day. She sees her siblings on a weekly basis. There's a lot of love and communication and support amongst them. And she has a very solid foundation in her relationships, especially with those that she loves. I come from a family that is really disconnected, and that's an area that I'm out of balance. And so I have to put things in place to help create better habits because I know how important that is to my health. I know that and my relationships with those that I love, it's not that I love my siblings less than she does, it's just I haven't put those things in practice. And so that's something that I need to put in there to make my life healthier and more balanced. She doesn't need that so much. The same thing goes for somebody who's extremely sedentary. If you're somebody who sits in your car, drives to work, sits at a desk all day long, doesn't move at all, that person probably needs to create more things in their life that is active, working, hiking, exercising, versus somebody who gets up at five o'clock in the morning, works a construction job, and is very physical and laborious all day long, that person probably doesn't have to put as much focus on movement and moving around.  So learning where am I out of balance on all of these things that contribute to my overall health, and then how do I get balance? Well, I put practices in place to help counter where I'm out of balance. And I think you all, on top of that, you should also be okay with life throwing you out of balance. Right, right. That'd be flexible. Yeah, you could be so obsessed with balance that something happens in your life. Again, like you have a new baby, like, but I gotta get my hour workout. I gotta get all my perfect meals. I gotta get all my meditation. Just throw all those routines out the window. And now I'm so stressed out because I can't be balanced, you know? So you agree. Yeah, it's a very individual thing. And I think it's constantly changing for you as your life changes. Yeah, I still like looking, I remember Dr. Andy Galpin was talking about optimizing and adapting and then finding homeostasis. I just think it's, that's part of the game is just always kind of finding what homeostasis is for you. So finding your flaws and like really trying to improve that and then you adapt towards that. And then you need to optimize. You need to go out and stretch yourself a little bit more on top of that. Next question is from Tanner Whitman. What is your opinion on yoga and how do you suggest implementing it into your training? I would say that of all the group type exercise or fitness health modalities. It's the only one I don't want to see die. Yeah, it's the best one. By far, I think yoga done properly. So we're going to assume that I'm talking about proper yoga because yoga can be done wrong or applied wrong, just like anything. But done properly, yoga has tremendous benefit. One of the benefits that yoga provides, especially like a vinyasa flow type class. And there's other forms of yoga that are more appropriate for certain individuals, for someone like me who's really, really tight. A yin yoga is really, really good. But for most people, vinyasa flow type classes are phenomenal.  You are in positions where you're feeling things stretch, but you're active in these poses. When I, before I did yoga, I thought yoga was stretching and I thought a lot of it was just passive. It's not true. When you get into a pose like a warrior one and you're feeling stretching in your groin or you're doing up dog or other types of positions, you don't just passively get into stretch. They teach you to tense your body, to be active. You need to lean into it. And I'll tell you something right now. The best instructors I've ever seen in my entire life were giving you cues. Like if you're a personal trainer, one of the things that'll separate you from other trainers is how well you cue your clients so that they know what you're trying to communicate.   Go to a yoga class with a good yoga instructor.   It's such a weird cue, but I know exactly what that means. They have some of the best cues. That's the other value. And then lastly, the recuperative meditative benefit from yoga in a group type environment. Like my dad, for example, he did yoga for a little while because I had a group studio that had yoga classes. My dad will never meditate. I couldn't get him to meditate. I could pay him. He'll never do anything like that. But he did it because it was part of a yoga class without realizing any gained value. So for those things, I would say, if you're going to pick a group type class to add to your resistance training routine, make it yoga for sure. Now I'm going to challenge that. And I do agree with you on the benefits. And I do agree that of all the class settings that are out there, this is the one that I think is probably one of the most beneficial for most people. Now that being said, you listen to Mind Pump. And we have a program called Maps Prime and Prime Pro, which shameless plug again, like everything's half off right now. A yoga class alone is normally $20 to $30 per class or $150 for a monthly membership to go to unlimited classes every single month. You could spend half that money on Prime and Prime Pro, assess yourself and find out the areas where you have dysfunction or you need to work on your joints because that's what the programs are designed to do. And then learn specific movements that are going to address your problems, your imbalances. It's individualized.  And you make that time for yourself, whether that's down in your basement or in your living room when it's quiet and you're alone and you can be by yourself and spend 30 minutes an hour or even better, you take a couple of those movements and you only spend five or 10 minutes, three, four, five times a day and you're going to get way more value. You just reminded me. I've had at least three or four messages from yoga instructors who are using some of the movements that we put in Maps Prime Pro and Prime. Because when you think of a yoga class, the yoga instructor has a certain, typically a certain level of flexibility and I don't mean that in terms of physical flexibility, no pun intended. I mean in terms of what they can do in the class. Some yoga instructors at the end of the class will read an excerpt from a book or some spiritual practice. Some yoga instructors are much more coming around adjusting you, others are more instructing from the top. Some of them add a strength component or whatever. Well, these yoga instructors messaged me and said, at the beginning of the class, before we go into the flow, I have them do these three priming movements before they go in the class or I'll have them do it at the end. Which I think is phenomenal. Those are incredible teachers. They are. And here's the thing about yoga that I like so much and that in terms of instructors, they seem to be the most, in my experience, okay, they seem to be the most open to the benefits of other modalities. Now there's a certain level of tribalism that comes from any type of exercise where everybody, they think it's the only way and it's the best way or whatever. But I've, you know, the yoga instructors that I've met and worked with, they're all very like, oh no, you need to have a strength training component and you need to, and I like that. And I think it's the yoga model or the general attitude of yoga, which is like, when you go to a group class, that's any other group class, they don't say this at the beginning of the class. This is your practice. This is for your body. If a movement doesn't feel good, slow down, move out of it, or go into this other pose and rest and skip these. Yoga classes do that. They have a very, they really do acknowledge better than other group classes, the individual variants. They seem to be more open-minded. In general, I'd say yoga is, is excellent. But I thought that was phenomenal when I got those messages. I was like, what a great class.   I have Prime and Prime Pro. My mom hasn't gone through it. She hasn't figured out the moves that are perfect for her.  But if you're asking me what I think is the most beneficial or how great, I mean, if you, and you listen to Mind Pump, I would tell you, spend the money on Prime and Prime Pro, spend the time, which would be less than an hour, going through it to learn where you're deficient and where you should be spending time in, and then hone in on three to five exercises that are incredibly beneficial for you and treat it like a yoga class where you do it three to five times a week or more and you'll get way more benefit. I like it because it's probably the only popular modality out there that really kind of brings, slows it down and brings it back to the intent and to really focus in on, you know, how your body is, you know, receiving this information and then outputting that information and commanding, you know, your body to do what you're asking of it. And I think that, like, going through and researching all about, like, isometrics and, you know, really, like, finding so much hidden value there that shouldn't be hidden, it's just not popular because, like, it's difficult, and it's difficult for people in general just to sit by themselves in silent and listen to their own thoughts. Like, people hate that. True. And so it addresses, like, so many of these things, which is very restorative, which is very important in contrast with, you know, the aggressive, like, intense modern life. Yeah, everything that you're battling constantly. So, you know, I totally applaud yoga for that. I do 100% agree, though, it could be even more refined and be more individual.  Excellent. All right, so if you're listening to this episode when it's been released, you have a few hours to take advantage of our Black Friday sale. By far the biggest sale we have all year long. It's a very, very short period of time. 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Hi, good morning, and welcome to today's products and focus and what a difference a day makes Volatility is very much Part of the game right now and we've seen the markets absolutely sell off only to then rally up very strongly Then sell off then to rally up quite strongly and that's pretty much where we are today So yesterday pretty much brought an 8% rally in the crude oil markets that came pretty much out of nowhere Just on some vague chatter from a low-peck member about potential production cuts the usual Kind of rumors that go across the internet The crude oil price then slightly began to decrease but not before it brought equity markets up Kicking and screaming with it with most global equity markets actually up around about 2% to end the session Now what could all actually end up coming down that little bit? Global equities managed to hold on to those gains and that's pretty much where we are this morning Maybe just ever so slightly teetering on the edge there now I wouldn't expect it to be too much volatility today because tonight we've got the FOMC and that's at 7 p.m UK time now We're not really expecting the Fed to come out with any surprise rate increases but it's all about the the Fed statement that comes along with it and Many commentators really believe that is going to be a lot more dovish than usual as then towards the late 2015 You know they raise rates and all we're going to do you know Maybe three or four or maybe five rate hikes in 2016 the way the world markets are right now That seems to be a little bit precarious. I'm very very unlikely, but you never know what might happen US dollars are already that little bit stronger than they would potentially like it looking at cable You know cable is trading down at one spot 42 Your dollars has put up a bit more of a fight But the dollar generally is one of the best performing currency pairs out there I don't think it's in the US interest to have the dollar too strong against those basket of currencies for obvious competitive globalization reasons now Where we are with the markets today is FOMC obviously Bank of Japan on Friday We're probably not going to see huge amount of volatility and equities and FX until FOMC is out of the way But let's look at things from a technical perspective Because I think a lot of these markets are very very close to To some interesting support levels and for everything else you're pretty much just going to have to wait later on today Okay, so without further ado, but let's go ahead and have a look at the US 30 to kickstart things off So as discussed, this is where we are with the US 30 real decent bounce yesterday You can see how much lower we actually were and how volatile these markets are But we've had pretty much a failure to break up that little bit higher It did push on higher only to settle pretty much the same level as it did there on Friday So where we are today dodgy formation seventy four percent of seems to be markets clients are currently short bullish crossover on the MACD you've got a bi-signal and slow to castig but no fall through in the price action Then looking at the UK 100 and where we are with the UK 100 just now is we're making a series of lower highs right here So you've got a high a lower high a lower high decent turnaround in the candle yesterday still trading below those moving averages And if you have a look at the client sentiment 63% of seems to market clients currently long hoping for for rebound You've got 50 a 80 is a potential support level crossover on the MACD other technicals are relatively neutral Japan 225 77% of seems to market clients are short and we're at potential major resistance level 17161 failure to break and close above that so far we're trading below both moving averages the other technicals They didn't give a bi-signal, but that was a number of sessions ago. They're relatively neutral at the moment Then having a quick look at dollar yen 55% of seems to markets clients are currently long by position value. So very interesting candle yesterday So lots of fear returns so the yen was well bid Then I got pushed back up. I think I'm not sure if traders are really thinking the Bank of Japan is going to do anything on Friday or not We talked about this a lot in these sessions, but a lot of central banks They don't really want to do with content of easing if they can help it They really want to save that for when they're really in dire straits And the fact that they the end was making some decent gains even though it is a safe haven currency That leads me to believe that it seems to be more likely than likely But we are hugging that 21 pureed SMA right now 118 spot 25 as a as a major Support level and that's been in play for quite quite some time I knew it was a broken support acting as a resistance that it keeps it keeps flip-flopping around that area So 118 25 is strategically important So then have a good look at West Texas crude And that is some serious volatility right there. Look at this crude price But all the way up to 30 157 and that level of 30 157 obviously is of significance Also quite important to that 21 period SMA got pushed all the way back down It's really ugly from a candle perspective actually doji formation 58 percent of CMT clients are currently short. I saw they're anticipating a move back down to 26 73 Again, I would be very surprised if we actually saw any Major aggressive moves on any of the major products until after the FOMC So moving on to gold gold's been having a fantastic run recently as those extra rate hikes laid out by the Fed members at the end of November seem less and less likely in this current market environment And people are taking a view that there's going to be less than the four that are laid out If we get two rate hikes in 2016, that's probably a bit more realistic than four We'll see how the macro data comes out of the US now. You can see where we are just now This is the highest level that we've been in 2016 proper technical breakout yesterday No follow-through this morning the tips of these candles have got a high and a lower high So make of that as you will but one 1113 spot 40 that is the broken resistance that potentially acting as support So finishing up with the euro dollar and GBP USD euro dollar is very boring at the moment still trading within this potential Descending triangle formation. We're just waiting for a decent breakout one end or the other I'm finishing up with GBP USD Decent rally yesterday off the lows failure to break above these tips of these candles here. No follow-through today 88 percent of CMC markets clients are currently short one spot 42 30 is still the level to keep your eye on So market calendar time, right? What do we have here? Well, we've already had UK house data Nothing special. Uh, then we've got our new home sales. You've got your crude oil inventory data That's that's going to be pretty important if you're trading crude today gasoline stocks are much higher than expected again yesterday that helped to cause that extra sell-off and Crude yesterday if that comes out much higher than expected again today that could cause a little bit of a sell-off Um, but then you've got the FOMC. Don't forget that. It's very very important Thursday UK GDP German CPI Durable goods and employment claims from the US And to finish up things on friday, you got CPI you at your zone CPI US GDP and the University of Michigan sentiment index. Well guys, thank you very much for listening Very good luck with your trading and join me again tomorrow to find out what happened next. Thank you very much and goodbye


welcome everybody back to the independent investor channel. We're going to kick you into my Vanguard's sector specialty ETF. It's a passive portfolio that has been subject to the volatility just like everybody else, but it's been holding in like incredible. It is a defensive mechanism and I think you guys are going to appreciate me sharing this tutorial with you guys. So without further ado, we'll jump in. We'll take a look at the portfolio progress and the M1 Vanguard sector specialty ETF portfolio. And the greatest gift I can give investors out there, especially new investors to the opportunity is understanding how many different ways out there you can build wealth and a lot of positive ways. There's always risk that's involved with investing and that's fine, but a couple of key attributes to any new investor that starts investing is what account are you looking to start with and what are the products that you put in that account. Those are the really the two keys that trip a lot of people up and they don't know where to start. They don't know what account to start. What I'm showcasing here for you guys is something that I've showcased through the history of the channel. I've had this account since March 5th of 2019. So just over three years here on this opportunity with M1 Finance and it's not to be overstated, how important these videos are to people to understand even in volatile markets, how portfolios like this can really stand up to the volatility and provide a defensive mechanism for those new investors out there that just want to get started. They want to start wealth building for themselves. This is a great representative of a portfolio that it's built with diversification and the use of low-cost ETFs to provide that diversification and just to give you an idea of how it performs during volatile markets.  If you're new to M1 Finance, the portfolio that I'm going to share with you guys is provided in the description below. The independent investor channel is affiliated with M1 Finance. They're one of the very few brokers that I actually endorse through the channel and I have since the very beginning. I actively use M1 Finance. This account is my personal account and I give it away freely. Just know that if you do click on the link so I can receive a small piece of compensation for providing this direct access to not only M1 Finance but to my specific portfolio. You want to make sure that this fits inside your portfolio as well. I roll these out for information so you guys can check out the aesthetics of what M1 Finance brings to bear. Just a couple of notes here for your interest. These portfolios were built with a very, very passive type of perspective. In other words, if you're looking for a trading platform, M1 Finance is not going to work for you. M1 Finance is made to invest and leave it alone. I do not hit the sell button in M1 Finance. I fund this over time. I allow the market to work over time. This particular portfolio has not been touched in three years. It has been preserved. It has been contributed to and it has not been liquidated one single time over the course of having it. The gains speak for themselves here. Market gains of just shy of $3,600. We have earned some dividends here. They started out pretty slow. I got a few pennies to start and now they've turned into something special here with just shy of $22,000 in the account. We've obviously rolled off a little bit here with the market volatility but still significantly up over time over the three short years that we've had this account. I just want to earmark that for you guys. The best way to invest in M1 Finance is if you're interested in taking a passive approach to the market. It takes zero time once this is established. It takes zero monitoring of the account or zero manipulation or management. You can monitor it all you want. I monitor these accounts on a weekly basis just to see the progress, just to see how each of the sectors and for you guys that don't know, this is split up in the 11 sectors of the S&P 500. A sector is just a segment of interest for you new investors out there that understand technology as a sector, health care as a sector, financials as a sector. Each of these products are available through Vanguard that basically allows you to buy that sector across the board, small caps, mid caps and large caps alike and buy it in one specific product. This is Vanguard's technology and within this ETF you're going to own basically the entire sector as Vanguard has constructed the product. Now something important to note here is cumulatively these carry with it a very, very low expense ratio. This runs at about a tenth of a percent, so 0.1 on some of these, 0.09 on others and I think as low as 0.08. So very, very anemic on the fee structure, which is almost negligible when we look at my strategic goal of lowering fees within an investment's accounts, but this is how it's performed. And for a lot of people who are talking about the volatility in the stock market, I think it's important to note here and I will highlight energy, which has just jumped up incredibly. I mean, we're up over 100% here in energy and I established this portfolio to benefit from sector rotation and we can't have sector rotation without me benefiting from that. Obviously, if I'm in the sector that's being rotated out of, obviously that sector will suffer a little bit, but those funds have to go somewhere and I've ensured that I own all of the sectors. I don't omit any. So if there is going to be a sector like energy to benefit from the inflows now, I will benefit from that and I think it's very important to note that I've contended in this portfolio that it's probably in the investor's best interest to just own all the sectors and not just say, look, I think I just want to own technology, healthcare and financials and omit some of the lesser known sectors like utilities and especially materials and the like here. I own them all. Now, you can put an emphasis on how large of an allocation you put to each of the sectors. In other words, I don't own this equal weight. What that means is here on the bottom with telecommunications, I only own this at 6% and I'm actually underweight a little bit with my target allocation. Right now, the actual holding shake at it about 5.5%. So that is the actual as compared to the target with technology rolling off here a little bit. It's actually brought my actual allocation to 13% where my target is 14. And it's important to note for new investors what that could mean is that new funds that flow in here are always going to go in here to fund the underweight sector. So where energy here has outperformed and my actual is over my target of 7%, new funds will not come in here because the market has provided me some benefit to being invested in this. But new funds are not going to go toward an overweight sector rather flow into these underweight sectors here. And that always ensures that I'm buying the market at a dip. Where three years ago, energy was the underweight sector in this portfolio, I was buying energy heavy. And now you see the benefit of actually buying energy when it was so low. And there was nobody out there talking about how important it was to accumulate energy at that time. M1 Finance ensured that all the new fundings that came into this portfolio always flowed into the underweight sector. And right now technology is somewhat unloved. So new fundings as it flows in here are flowing to the underweight sector. The last thing I'll mention with regard to this portfolio, this can really be great for those new investors out there that don't have a lot of time to spend monitoring single stocks. It can be conducive to those investors that understand the importance of dollar cost averaging over time. You can start this account with as little as $500. I think anything less than that would be somewhat futile. But for those investors that are serious about getting started, $500 is a great starting amount. I started this account down here with, I think, $1,500. It's built up to something special in three years. So for those 18-year-olds out there, wouldn't it be nice to have $22,000 worth of wealth built up by the time you're 22 years old, you're off and running? The rule of 72 would suggest that you're going to double your money at a 7% to 8% rate of return around every seven years. You do the math. I mean, this is really how wealth is built. It allows you to fund it. It allows you to enjoy diversification. So you don't have to stress out about the volatility that the market can go out. And M1 Finance really does deliver on that front to those investors that are interested in becoming an investor in the stock market to hold assets as a young person into their future and fund those assets over time. There is no better account out there than M1 Finance that I have found on the marketplace. And I know it would be investors the best chance of becoming an investor and growing wealth over time the responsible way and the way that it should be over time. Guys, I appreciate you tuning into this. We'll kick you back and we'll conclude the video. So we've come out of the Vanguard Specialty ETF portfolio. This is comprised of the 11 sectors, the S&P 500 using the Vanguard's sector ETFs, wonderful product, very low expense. It's a great way to invest passively in the market. No stress. Anybody can do this. It's scalable to the masses. And for everybody talking about the volatility in the markets now, I thought it timely to do this review for you guys and present maybe a different avenue or a different angle and a different strategy to approach and buffer the volatility that's going on and the noise right now of maybe potentially entering into an eventual recession, I could care less. I'm going to continue to buy the markets using the power of M1 Finance and the capacity that I've demonstrated for you in the course of this video and this tutorial on this portfolio, how it's held up in the face of adversity in volatile markets. Guys, if you appreciate the message, I would invite you to subscribe to the channel. We roll out a lot of content like this beginning investor 101 material to scale to the masses. Our young people need to have this understanding that it's not all doom and gloom. 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