Abs are not made in the kitchen abs are revealed in the kitchen abs are made in the gym How many trainers do you feel like have this on their mirror and they look at it every morning? Just like yeah Right, I mean it was a it was a popular thing to tell tell people I understand why it came Yeah, I mean it's it's because you could do You know all the ab crunches in the world and if you don't get to a certain body fat percentage You'll never see him and Understand that you have abs Everybody listening to the show right now even if you've never done a single crunch in your entire life You have abs just like you have biceps triceps shoulders back they mean you have those muscles and The best and fastest way to reveal them is to reduce body fat and expose them that it doesn't mean and I think this is Where the extreme of this is gone where saying abs are made in the kitchen that people just Completely now disregard the value and the benefits of actually strength training and building your abdominals and also I do want to say this So yes, very true. You have to get lean enough to see them. Otherwise. It doesn't matter, right?  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That's the one. That's not a big. Oh, that's a big No, let's get into a little deeper because this really is the secret. Okay. Now obviously there's lots of components that make up what a good successful long-term routine look like and diet but at the at its root at its core If you talk to anybody Who's been doing this for a long long period of time because that's where you really want to get your answers people who've done this for? 15 20 30 40 50 years right who've been working out for a long time. It's they stop caring about the goal It's really not about goals anymore. It's not about I want to bench this much. I want to lift that much I want to get that lean. It's all about I just love the process when you fall in love with the goal Eventually you hit that goal and you're screwed and we've all experienced this right when you're you obsess over a goal I can do it. I'm gonna hit this particular goal. Then you get there and you're like now what? Versus I love the process I love the journey and then the side effect of that is all the goal all the goals you could ever dream of all the Success you'd ever dream of it just happens because you love the journey so much You don't stop working out when you love working out You don't stop eating healthy when you love eating healthy But if you work out to look a particular way if you eat to look a particular way and you eventually hit those goals It's gonna be a big challenge to stay consistent. I mean, I think that's the recipe for any success total Pursuit work school driven relationships anything in that direction is just to really focus on You know the day-to-day process and really learn to enjoy Those things even if when they are challenging Because on the other side of that you get you reap all the benefits anyways as a result So I'd be miserable on your way through now. How do you communicate this to somebody who? Openly tells you I don't like this process. I hate doing this I work out because I know I need to because I know it makes me healthier But every bit of it I do it begrudgingly, you know, it's it's almost never the now Of course, let's be clear. You could do things wrong. You could do things to hurt yourself odd stuff So if we're controlling for that It's almost never the thing that you're doing. It's the mindset of the person that's doing it It's almost always that right? It's almost always. Well, why do you hate it so much? Oh, you know, it's it's hard I got to wake up early and you know, I'd rather be doing this or that or You know, I just want to lose 30 pounds I mean not that bad or I hate my body and so now this exercise is kind of a punishment It's usually the person's mindset that's causing those issues And so rather than look because here's what ends up happening Adam And I know you guys have seen this right the person searches for the different method. Well, I hate this kind of actual I'm gonna do this one.  I'm gonna try this one I'm gonna try that diet and it's just because their mindset remains the same no matter what they do They're gonna hate it versus working on the mindset. Okay. I'm doing this because I'm taking care Who doesn't like to take care of themselves, right? I'm doing this because I love myself. I'm taking care of myself I'm gonna modify my workouts to improve my quality of life right now So if I'm tired, it's gonna be more of a relaxing workout. It's gonna be stress relieving. I'm jazzed It's gonna I'm gonna go after it, right? I mean, I'm enjoying the process and if you figure out how to enjoy that process, which takes time Then everything else takes care of itself, but it's the mindset of the person going into I remember a while ago We had a somebody ask a question that said Something like a The secret to long-term financial successes You know doing what you love or finding, you know something that you love and I remember Adam your reply was no learn to love What you're doing? Yeah, that's the that's the real answer. It's right, right? You remember saying that? Yeah, yeah I think also part of the the problem too is people's idea of of how they need to go about it, right? So I think that has a lot to do with why they hate the process is because I think the the process to them is Is way worse than what it needs to be, right?  It has to be miserable. You got a crud. Yeah So I think that's a big part of the problem too. So in my experience when people say that they hate coming to the gym They hate that process It's because of the relationship that they they have with exercise It's been taught to them the wrong way And so I think if you can explain to them listen, we don't in fact We want to do a lot less than what you're doing around We just want to do a little bit and create some good habits around and then build upon it I think when they when they start to piece that together that it doesn't have to be this like all or nothing mentality I think that they they start to change their totally the relationship you also start to you also through that process You start to develop a different relationship with struggle and with pain like this is a big one Like I remember as an early trainer It was always weird to me training someone who'd never exercise before how they would react to the burn that they would feel And I would I mean I was training him appropriately So it wasn't like I was hammering anybody but I remember one specific instance where this this woman was doing tricep Never exercised before she was doing rope press downs And I had no weight on the stack at all very light just wanted her to kind of feel the range of motion She did it and then she'd let go of the rope and it slammed. Ah, and I'm like what's wrong. She's like I I think I'm hurting myself. That's what do you mean? She goes. Well, I was it was I'm like you mean it burns like she had a completely different relationship to pain because You know, she had no practice with it, you know, like when I work out and I've been working out forever I feel probably the same pain or more pain than somebody who's never exercised because I've been trained so long I pushed myself, but it it doesn't it's not the same relationship I doesn't feel bad to me actually start to enjoy that whole process of it, right? So it's definitely a practice that should be the goal though The goal should be to let us why tell people when you go to the gym practice your exercises learn the skill You know, you should feel better When you leave then you did going in not what people tend to do which they feel shitty afterwards So they beat the crap out of themselves. Well, it's interesting It's part of that not having that mindset I think is why we see so many different modalities and so many different diets Totally, it's because we want to just distract ourselves with something else. Yes. It must be this that was the problem You know, it's always a deflection of other things that Is the reason why I'm not enjoying this and I'm not getting the results. I want it's got to be this method Dude, it's no no Joe. Just maybe thinking something. It's like the dude. That's like he just he's dated like 10 people He said, I don't know man. I just you know girls are crazy. They're all crazy. Yeah, she smelled and you're like I had to get rid of there's one common denominator here my friend like 10 crazy chicks might be you you might be the problem so if you've tried like 50 million times to different types of workouts and all these different diets and They all whatever the common nominators you it might not be the program or the diet It might be you you're you might have the wrong mentality and you might be dreading the journey or Purposely not realizing it may be subconsciously dreading the journey so much that nothing else gonna work for you, of course We're totally calling you out right now. Yeah. Well speaking of crazy. What y'all think about that? Will Smith smack? Oh I've been holding it in all morning Theory because immediately my first reaction is like, oh dude. He is a Oscar-winning actor. Yeah, right and he is in a lot of action movies and it looked very action-slapping like his technique was just very It's like Chris Rock's face looked like he was ready for it and then sort of turn I don't know dude. I I smell a fish on back and forth It smells so before we get into that because this is a great conversation I have two thoughts that are that I'd like to focus on for just for a second one is okay Let's just assume it was real. Okay first off Obviously the right thing to do when someone uses words that hurt your feelings or insult something It's not them. No, it's to not physically assault them obviously now as a man and as a human How would I react if somebody said something that really hit my wife really hard? You know, I don't know. I don't know how I would react if it was on the streets I might react physically I to be quite honest if it's at a show. I might just leave So put that aside though. Here's the thing. Nobody's focusing on. Okay.  What would have happened immediately out?  I don't agree with that. I 100% agree with that because first of all This is not a a public open.   I sure it is as they're on TV It's public and there's security, but I mean you're talking about these celebrities Most of them are friends or friends of friends.  They're like, oh Will Smith. What's he gonna do? Maybe he's gonna grab the mic and say something or whatever then slap bro Where have you been the last two years?  Everybody's business No, I know that you I don't think this is an example like them being overly privileged Bro, he smacked him sat down yell at him No, this is more of a this is a and they got to get his award after a hell no a Private group of them that you they you would not call the cops this is not private at all and there's hella security there There's it's the security to keep outside people coming exactly like your uncle smacking your friend No, yeah, it is these are the privileged celebrities.  They do what they want and Look again, I don't think that's the angle. I a hundred percent I don't think that's the angle to take here.  Yeah, I mean Okay, so if we are in our family barbecue and some stranger came into the barbecue and did that but they're not strangers They're friends of each other. I'm saying so that's why I'm saying somebody attending the oscars I don't not a celebrity. Okay.  It's like I said, it's more like friends that are having a spew You're not calling the cops. No my point is it's televised. It's a big event. There's lots of people there and you're right They make their own rules for themselves, but they preached everybody else about how great you need to be Well, and now that's and that's also now now you're going that direction You're also taking the the the angle that it's probably true. I don't believe it's true I think it's both now. Let's talk about that. I think I think that hollywood has been drowning Let's talk about their ratings and these irrelevant shows And today they're not today. They're the most relevant news. I mean they they're ahead of Ukraine right now on television Well, like it's crazy like that, but that's how popular this you thought it was staged like uh, jenny jackson's Listen to me. So he got cheated on right his wife cheated on him previously. Yeah, right?  Yeah, I know Well, that's the case that people are making is like, okay So he gets all defensive about a chris rock joke about her hair and stuff like that But then he yeah, so like so that I guess that whole thing is like it boiled up to this point where it's like, you know He just took it out on chris rock That's like totally not if it's real. There's a lot more behind that If it was it would have been mal there a lot more oomph in that So if you were to try to hurt well, so right away right away I called I called bullshit right away now the only thing that made me kind of go back and forth was they I mean Two things that was like the whole thing afterwards. Yeah acting the acting part on chris rocks piece afterwards And then with jada's original reaction.  They're getting their ass kicked by social media and streaming stuff Well, my kids don't even know who they are right Well, I'm not even joking if they if they if they stage or excuse me schedule A celebrity boxing match between wil smith and chris rock Then you know for sure you try to tell me they haven't learned from the paul brothers. They haven't learned from all of these other Uh platforms like you know from youtube from all these other uh avenues where people learn that all Anything they can do to create conflict Bro how celebrity boxing and all this stuff is like so popular right now Like you said that on text last night and I thought all I could think of is like How embarrassing is that if they did stoop to that level like to the where they have to go cherry Springer just jerry springer style for sure damn So I personally think it's real not saying that i'm not a hundred percent But I think it's real because of the Awkwardness and I think it's there's more risk to people's careers and there is Potential positives So that makes me and I bet I do think there was more to it like I mean how are we gonna know it's real Well, you know, okay, so so vicky earlier made a great point She said remember all that the heat that wil smith got for because his wife cheated on him They had an open relationship and he looked like a kind of like a like a beta. Yeah, well you let your what so I wonder if that's weighing on him Then he goes there He sees her face and he's like he I gotta I gotta be a man about this I gotta come up and stand up for my family type of deal and show the whole world So we went up there and did that and then you know did the yelling I mean I got there was a lot more behind it I definitely you gotta think he's definitely regretting his whole what's it called red table or whatever they do Or they just like put their their family business and I mean that to me is just That's probably what led to all this. That's the demise of most I think it was um, uh, what was his name? The guy who's the the mayor of clean eastwood So the clean eastwood did that in his family right and they have he did that I didn't know that a reality show and it like totally just ruined the dynamic Of his family like every time like a celebrity pulls in the cameras and like brings it in the family besides I guess the kurdashians. Yeah, how would zaster happen? How addicted to attention and money do you have to be to want to bring that on in your own family? Yeah, like your real family. Yeah, I mean like never like will needs money Like the guy doesn't need money So why he doesn't and he doesn't need any more cameras of attention. He's got plenty of it if he wants it What what's the desired outcome?  It's it's all dysfunctional It's super just totally the whole thing is dysfunctional. It has to be I would not wish Uh, I would never that's why I'm kind of private about my kids Like I would I get if you're an adult and you do something and then there's fame that comes along with it Which brings a lot of challenges Yeah, but if you're a kid and you're growing up and your parents are famous So you're famous as a result of your parents and you're a kid Now you feel like you get all the attention and love and you feel more important than you are and Creates this distorted ego You're gonna bring more of that on here's our family bring the cameras So if we if we agreed this is real, which I don't I don't well, but let's pretend we do There's one more point. I got me. That's a terrible joke. It was like way beneath Chris rock Like it wasn't that big a deal. Yeah, it was like it it just seemed to me like it wasn't It was just something that he just kind of threw out there Uh, and I don't know if you like again to to the whole thing It didn't seem very planned, but it just seemed like a really just lame joke Well, doesn't that make it feel plan to you the fact that it was a lame joke It's like what can we do? What can we do to get a jab to get him to come up and do that? There's gotta be more to it Exactly because he's so polished and calculated about like delivering his lines and and punch lines and You know and that that joke was just a terrible But I know but you know those jokes normally the when they do the shows or what that are They're normally pretty terrible because I gotta ride them for they have riders riding them for him Yeah, so a lot of times they are terrible. So okay, but I don't let's let's pretend We do all agree that it's real. Who's side of this are you on? Oh side I'm on chris rock side. Well, look because here's the thing is be like what you you would defend chris rock.  That's his job. Yeah, and you're at a show.  It's actually less manly.  We're leaving.  I'm the I love you. I'm your husband You know, I mean if it's real. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, but I but again I go back to this look dude. It's on tv. It's it's publicized.   It's will smith He sat back down got to go get his best actor award got to make a speech What yeah, but like half of him being there is to receive the award that they already knew he was gonna get I don't like that argument dude. I don't like that argument. I am so sour. I'm so sour man I'm so sour of seeing them totally do the opposite of what and they preach they preach everybody bad behavior with celebrities You know, they that's what the they live for they like they want that photo op Of somebody at the club like beating somebody up or because then it's again What we're doing right now is just promoting the same news Of what they just created dude. They got the best ratings of all time probably because exactly I can't tell you the last time that I woke up and opened up my Feeds and seen the same thing. I mean like bigger than the war Also, okay.    Hey, Justin Justin's entire argument is the biomechanics of the slap He's technically I broke it down like multiple videos. That's a movie slap in real life. It's a movie slap Nobody slaps somebody like that. Oh Yeah, I don't know. Come on. He also looked like he kind of smirked when he walked back He did and so did chris rock that could all be smiled. Then he was like, yeah, that could all be what happened That could all be nervous ship. It's true. It's yeah people got queered when they're, you know nervous or you know I'm sure he realized you know what to do and he's like I got punked, you know, too So there's a lot.  I know that you know what I'm saying So like what is he gonna do?  Just a picture after he got hit. He instinctively made a fist I didn't see that he was gonna do something Okay, and then thought twice and then it was like wait, man. He's way better than me I don't know man. Who knows, you know, these they're celebrities. Can they really fight? Well, so I hope jake paul gets it. What's interesting about all this is like, you know, will we ever know? Like how like how does how does this get proven to be staged other than like somebody here's the deal Okay, and here's what happens. You hit a comedian question. Here's my prediction.    There's so much material there. So and it's already started I mean I've been posting them all day today all these memes that are coming out It's like I every time I open my phone. I get a new three that are sent to me. I'm like, oh my god They are going ham right now.  I really think that that how are they gonna bring back the viewers Maybe the next oscar awards chris rocks gonna speak again And will smith will be in the audience again. Connie is gonna come out of you know, he's gonna get airlifted in Like kick somebody We'll do the awards everybody Yeah, I imagine if we really are moving in this direction of like jerry springer everything like this That's that to me is the best. Well, that's jerry springer People might not know this if they're not, you know, our age or whatever, but talk shows Were serious for a long time. You had donahue And oprah and then they they were like trying to figure out how to squeeze out more ratings and then it became like Uh paternal tests, you know, and then it became You know fighting on stage name with the beard and then the glasses that He he used to be like a like a journalist that was out in um, like iraq. Oh, you talking about uh, heraldo heraldo Thank you. Remember when he got like his nose broken Uh in some interview. Yes, and that became like the butt. Yeah, my favorite were the paternal tests What was the guy's name that did those were? You are no jerry springer. That was jerry springer morey povitch.  Oh I saw one where she had four dudes lined up if they all had to do it Oh my god, and they all came back negative. We're going right back to the bottom of the barrel. That's my Yeah, we are. Hey speaking of crazy shit, uh, the last all-in podcast was really good about economics that's like negative I don't even like talking about but they were they were talking about economics and kind of moving ahead what we're gonna We're gonna see with uh, so it sounded like from what you guys were trying to describe to me like what were they Well, it's bleak because we're hazel investors and we really got into that in the last year. And so basically Almost everything right, of course, there's always going to be outliers. Of course, they're still great businesses But but what it does highlight is the debate in conversation we had around tonal Yeah, I mean talk about uh overpriced. Yeah way overpriced and they're they're saying bro They're saying between 30 and 50 percent. Yeah, they're saying companies that were getting valuations in the last two years It was so ridiculously over inflated the way that that forgot who explained it was really well, um, the guests they really said Yeah, and then sacks came back and kind of broke it down even further Um that the way in when the market everything's blowing up and we it was a lot of distortions, right? Lots of money injected into the market They that what you look at for valuations is growth. That's the main thing. How fast can you grow? But when things start to settle it becomes growth, but then it also becomes margins and burn rate Because when you have a startup in order to grow before you start to become profitable You have to spend more to grow more spend more to grow more and if that spend Means that it'll take you three or four years To get back that money in this market. It's not going to be cool anymore So so they're saying that a lot of things are going to get repriced a lot of valuations are going to drop So of all there's people there's people they're used to like this is a big strategy You wait till the last round of funding before a company goes public to make a quick Yeah to make a quick a quick buck off of that But what they're saying is there's going to be a lot of people that use that strategy And when it goes to IPO, it's going to be you know, 30 to 50 percent less than what they bought in at So those people technically are now one of the companies that we invested in that I really still feel good about is luna Mainly because they're so disruptive to the the physical therapy market. Yeah, such a need for there's a huge need for it And it saves money for insurance companies and physical therapists like it more because they make more money And they have more flexibility and patients like it more because The PT comes to your house Um, and we we obviously saw their projections and all stuff I I think that's still a total win. But you know, but a lot of other ones.  So that's a that's a good sign, right? And that those are the ones that are most likely going to make it out of this Um, luna was not one of those But I do agree with you That they're the space that they're in the size that they already currently are at Um, and the fact that you're dealing with insurance. They're just so disruptive Well, and there's very rarely do you see something move into a space like that and like the the I mean what is it the consumer the creator and like even like like every insurance Like everybody wins that's what everybody is going to save more make more It's like ride sharing that's rare that you see that it's like ride sharing versus tax Here, of course it's going to crush everybody likes it more Yes, and better experience for the consumer the drivers make money I see markets luna is going to open up markets that were already there But they but people didn't take advantage of them because of the logistics I'll give you a big example. My favorite example is postpartum physical therapy Every woman should get postpartum physical therapy because childbirth and pregnancy changes The way your body works changes muscle recruitment patterns.   Where's it? Whatever so they don't do it and they end up waiting six seven eight months by that point You've developed some bigger problems So postpartum PT is so valuable, but people don't do it because of that with luna Now they come to your house. So I think that market's going to blow up where and it's all covered by insurance anyway So you have your baby as part of your post, you know your your care PT comes as soon as you're cleared they come to your door They take you through different movements and exercises and things that help with all the stuff that happens during pregnancy So that one I think is gonna that alone will be massive Yeah, in my opinion. I agree with speaking of our sponsors. I want to talk about a really cool back Workout kind of in this is this isn't necessarily anything special, but if it's novel for you This is such a great workout. So, you know how the prx Um Cage or whatever that folds out, right? And it's got the pull-up handle. Yeah with like, I don't know. It's like six different grip Positions on that's an extra model. You have dug should Douglas should look that up because it's not like not every rack comes with that I know that we opted to get that one usually the ones with the lower ceilings You can't really opt in for that. Okay, is that right? Is it's only it's only the taller ones? Yeah, I don't know if it had anything to do with the height that that bar is But I do know that that there's certain models that are just a straight up pull-up bar But then the one you're talking about has all the cool. Yes grip variation. Yeah, so I love and one I just I did this today Great back workout. You literally my goal. So back in the day There was a workout that Arnold used to talk about Where he would do pull-ups until you hit 50 reps So essentially however many you do the first set Subtract it from 50 and you keep doing sets until you hit a total of 50 So you end up doing, you know, eight sets or whatever for of pull-ups So that's what I did and what I did was is I I Did wide grip closer grip neutral grip supinated grip super close grip And I just kept alternating and getting a different feel in the most crazy back pump of all time It's a great really really great easy workout without tons of that's an I didn't know that was an Arnold thing I did that for I must have got it from him then because I did a where I started every where every back work out You had to do 50 pull-ups. Yeah, didn't matter how many sets just however many sets I can get it done in right So which one is it done? They it's an option on any of their racks or most of them at least the tall ones Oh, okay. So the multi-grip bar Oh, cool. Oh, so it's not actually the rack. It's it's just the multi-grip bar Yeah, so there's all kinds of different racks that you can get and then the top one of each of the categories has that Additional now, what is it bump it up like to go from like if you were to get the most basic Rack without that and then you decide to go do that. How much more are you bumping to do that? It's about 300 more But that's from the very bottom rack to the very top racks This is all payment. You can also do where you pay. No, I love their whole like because they have a gym calculator on here Right, so if you pay a gym membership, you can kind of and see what you get for the same price Oh, that's great. Yeah. No, I think it's great that they do that So you know it's convenient that has all those different grip points in one place because we used to have At that other gym I worked at we used to have some rock climbers in there that put some grips Oh, yeah, and then they got to the point where they could even do pull-ups with like a finger And they had those which also which would be a cool addition to this if there's an accessory that hangs down That's these two like balls and grab I think they do have that I'm waiting for the joke But anyway, yeah, it's it's it's ridiculous just looking for some balls to do some pull-ups on I don't hey speaking of hey speaking of workouts, Justin Yeah, I purposely didn't ask you about this. I want to hear about it on the show So you started working out with your football team that you're that you're coaching like just lifting yourself Well, yeah, because this sounds like such a fun, but also a bad idea. Yeah, it's probably a bad idea I got to a point now where the workouts are Firmly established and I'm going around and checking form and it's it's good enough where like I don't have to be So involved anymore, which is nice. I'm like kind of just you know looking around and and so I started to To talk trash with some of the kids and This I do have a little bit more weight and so then they had me jump in with them I started jumping in with them a little bit and uh, yeah, I started to throw some weight around in there So we'll see how I gotta calm down. I'll calm down.  Oh, you remember that. Yeah, bro. Are you kidding me right now? There is no way What a terrible idea middle-aged man who has a lifting experience is going to work out with a bunch of teenage boys And not flex on them all the time. There's no way Especially what he challenged me, dude. I was going to say especially when you get a strong one Who's actually going to do some serious weight. They ain't even close yet. So Good luck, you know, I can I can lift these baby weights all day Okay, so I mean if you're like, I mean if you're like 20 heavier than them and ever all lives then maybe that's such a big deal I think I think I would be a little nervous. There's that little strong like linemen You could probably out squat me in there like I'm totally with you guys with that. It's just like for me I'm trying to find new ways to spark um Them to to pursue more of a struggle, you know, and it's like you can tell them all day But sometimes I think he's gotta show them. You're okay. So let me ask you a question Did you do squats with them? I didn't do squats yet. I did bench and oh you did bench Okay, let me guess did you put let me you put over 250 on the bar? Oh, yeah, I was just repping 315 You never put three plates on it here. No, because nobody yeah, I know Because I mean everybody the highest I seen there's like 185.  Like where's my 200 kids? Like where you at? So it's kind of like a little call out. I love it I know that I know the feeling bro. You have to you have to I I just started more I just started working out at a gym again I signed up a club sport again just so I could use the the steam and sauna and did you have to re-sign up?  So I went over and they let me reinstate it So I started training again Over there. Um, and it's you know, I'm having a good time It's a good time a lot a lot of machines. So now I can focus more on Just kind of the body sculpting thing and and you know the steam and sauna after I love that man You do the sauna after is great and then cold rinse. Oh man I feel like especially after talking to dr. Cabral You know about how much toxins and everything we store and I was like, wow Can that makes it even more like I want to do sauna again even more I'm trying to get the mercury out of my system. Yeah. Yeah, that's really interesting I can't wait till when the filter gets here. You already ordered that right Doug? Yeah So I can't wait to see if that's gonna be crazy if just by putting this filter in here all of a sudden it drops All of us. I mean, that's the only thing that made sense to me that we all do, you know Yeah, there's there's no other explanation.  I'm not eating like that at all Especially right now. That's why it was gotta be one of these industrial lights or something, right? That's emitting Doug. Doug is light ideas. You that are okay. We can do it in the dark Kill all of us dude. What's that? Hey, what's that? What's that? Somebody's just breaking thermometers in here. Justin. What's that disorder where like the mom will slowly poison her kids? Munchausen. Yeah, we have Doug's munchausen. What if he's like, I'm doing it to myself for god's sake Okay, that's like part of the scam though.  He'll take some out of there Hey, look I got mercury too guys. Yeah, I'd say this was the highest Hey, you're right winner. Yeah. Yeah, you know that this weekend was uh for Justin and I right we both uh daddy daycare Right. Oh, you guys were without wife same time, right? I tell you what might a little different But all this New Year's yeah, well ours. Uh, I mean it was four days, right? So this is the longest without Katrina This is also the first time that she has taken off like uh for like a whole weekend or four days, right? Good for her Yeah, no, it was totally uh her turn to be able to get to do this I've done it like in short spurts where we go travel or whatever And I and I told her like if she was just like, you know, you I got this I said hunn just go have a good time. You'll be fine. We're gonna be fine. We're gonna live But I forget I was just gonna tell you I was gonna tell you guys about her her reaction to uh No, did he do anything like was he missing mommy was no, he was he was great, dude It was uh, it was a the whole point of me telling or bringing it up was It all and I and I've said this before that I have this appreciation for Single parents after going through that and by the way, he was easy like he was such a good kid. Oh, yeah He got better. He was he was he was sick the previous week. So he's always a handful when he's sick So he was he's healthy. So he's in a great mood since he's been healthy Went to bed on time slept all night.   I know imagine single parents will multiple kids Yeah, just No, I have a friend. She's got two little ones a baby and a little a toddler. I'm like, how do you how do you I like to I didn't get a try. I didn't get I didn't work out one time in the four days Uh, I ate very little.   So I really had very very little food during that time And I and I didn't have a breakaway time to train now granted I I get that if this was like my life and I wasn't a single dad I would figure all these things out, you know, and like of course I would eat consistently Of course, I would find a way to get my workouts in but man when that when that's your your main focus Is it's really tough to prioritize yourself So I totally get it and understand where parents get very consumed by their kids and taking care of them You definitely appreciate your significant other and these oh, yeah like I because poor Courtney, she uh, she had uh, surgery because there was just this thing we had to get out of the throat Um, that uh, it just was irritating her constantly and I don't want to get too much details. Yeah, there's a wife joke there But I'm gonna leave it. I know I don't want to get will Smith in there Yeah, he's got good Um Yeah, so anyway, I had to remove uh, it wasn't her tonsil but almost and so anyway like her throat is just Massive she's always painkillers and the the worst part of it was Uh in the surgery they actually nicked uh her tongue and so she's got an inch like long Just cut And when you're when your tongue is cut it is painful sure and so It's four things. She's just got all this pain and you know can't swallow and it's just like so i'm just You know super dad mode just trying to like get everybody doing stuff And I took the kids to their gymnastic meet this weekend in Sacramento and like uh, you know Putting all their stuff in their gear to get like I did not realize how like incompetent like my kids are with like Like putting things in that they're supposed to put in like like Like Everett for instance they wear this like kind of onesie unitard thing and then you put shorts over it and like so And then he just puts his his track outfit on the outside right doesn't put his shorts on We're almost leaving the house. He would have been there with with his just onesie without his shorts Like what are you thinking dude?   I'm like, how did I left it there? With all his stuff, dude, like and I think the whole weekend has been great I haven't had and that thread is actually got Katrina in it.   I I don't have any adult interaction. It's constant about my kid. I can't do anything for myself Um, it's tough. This is why when I hear parents or no When I hear people who don't have kids judging parents I I want to will smith them in the face.  Oh, yeah, I would know.  You have no idea what it's like.  Yeah, you like you so like when I always like people ask the season parents Just sit here and smile. Yeah, I just go no comment now. I say we'll see or I'm gonna try this That's my that's my strategy. I mean even you know talking about the the tv thing I really believe that I wasn't gonna give him no tv till he was like five You know I'm saying like I was gonna say no tell me And I mean for the most part I thought we were really good and I think Trying being aware of it. It's been the most valuable thing, right? So like On friday and saturday like he did get no tv him and I were playing we're outside Like he was with my dad for a while like we went to the park like just and he was an absolute saint Yesterday, you know, it's the we're waiting for Katrina to come home. We slept in it's sunday Like we weren't going anywhere. I was just like, you know what? Let's let's lay around and watch a little bit cartoons in the morning So I let him watch some cartoons in the morning then around I think three or four was the warrior game I really wanted to watch that selfishly Katrina still wasn't home. So I'm like, I will pull the iPad out You could watch that I could watch my thing and but you know what? Bath time.  He was hard like I swear man if if if I get a tradeoff it is a tradeoff and I and so You know, there's times and what I real recognize as a parent now who who said that he wasn't going to do that at all is That okay, that's not happening It's going to happen There's times when it's like this is like a lifesaver to be able to have him some entertained like that But it also keeps me very aware though of how it absolutely disrupts his sleep and changes his behavior So you have I have to be very Judicious on how I use it It's like it better damn well be something that I really need help or really need that moment of him being entertained for me To use it anymore or else I can totally see how it's not gonna no one's gonna be no one's gonna be a perfect parent And the more kids you have the less perfect shit is like you're doing that with one You got one kid and your kid's easy. He's a good kid.   Yeah, that's it. 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Oh, I like that back that term there Actually, let me correct that abs are not made in the kitchen abs are revealed in the kitchen abs are made in the gym How many trainers do you feel like have this on their mirror and they look at it every morning? Just like, yeah That's right. I mean it was a it was a popular thing to tell tell people I understand why it came. Yeah, no I mean, it's it's because you could do You know all the ab crunches in the world and if you don't get to a certain body fat percentage You'll never see them and Understand that you have abs everybody listening to the show right now Even if you've never done a single crunch in your entire life You have abs just like you have biceps triceps shoulders back they mean you you have those muscles and The best and fastest way to reveal them is to reduce body fat and expose them that it doesn't mean And I think this is where the extreme of this is gone where Saying abs are made in the kitchen that people just completely now disregard The value and the benefits of actually strength training and building your abdominals and also I do want to say this So yes, very true. You have to get lean enough to see them. Otherwise it doesn't matter, right? But I will say this A develop a well developed muscle is more visible at higher body fat percentages So a muscular arm is going to look leaner at the same body fat percentage as a non muscular arm would look Same is true for the abs and the obliques. Look, I experienced this myself So I through most of my training career personal training career I didn't do lots of ab work because I was a skinny kid So I wanted and I wanted to get big and build muscle and so abs were like who cares, right? Let me focus on everything else And then at one point I I actually tried to get lean and I did I get down to like nine 10 9% body fat and my six pack Wasn't really visible unless I flexed really hard. Otherwise it just looked kind of lean And I don't really think nothing of it. Well, anyway fast forward I create the maps anabolic program and it dawns on me like, you know, I'm gonna See what happens if I try to build The muscles of my core and I did and my abs and my core responded really well I was able to build the muscles in my core and I now will have a Real, you know reliably visible six packet like 12% body fat, right? So because the abs are bigger the muscles are more or more visible because they're more developed So yes, you got to get lean But that doesn't mean that you're that developing a muscle isn't going to make it look better At higher body fat percentages anyway, they both contribute. Yeah, I think I mean even in the performance side of the world a lot of times You know We get stuck in the in the thought that I'm getting enough ab work because of heavy lifts with Backloaded squats with, you know, heavy carries like I'm stabilizing a lot of weight And if you look at that if you don't you don't train the rest of your muscle groups that way only in an isometric Stabilizing position without, you know, it's true Flexing and extending. So, uh, it's very much of a function of the abs that you want to be able to strengthen And and it actually carries over into all kinds of other lifts as well from a strength and support Uh position so, uh, but then again, too, you can you can actually build in You know gain some size from your abs which will help them to you know stick out stick out more and then that is where The revealing it becomes a bit more Uh easy. I'll tell you something right now. There's like the the lumbar pelvic hip area When that's strong and developed You feel that more than almost anything else like I could have well developed strong biceps and triceps and delts and And you'll notice when you do certain things I guess but when you're your your core And the musculature that supports your core including the hips is strong You are strong. You are a strong person if those are weak I don't care how strong your arms are and your and your rest of your legs are You're not very strong because uh that that weakness will will Put the brakes on any kind of force you're trying to produce so from a performance standpoint like I tell you what you find me A really powerful athlete and what you'll find is it well developed lumbar pelvic hip area glutes You'll find you know well developed core midsection obliques It's very very important Muscle group work them like anything else as far as seeing them as concerned. Yeah You got to get to a certain leanness. But you know adam said it right perfect Everybody has abs you look at power lifters With big bellies they got abs too. They're just not lean enough to see them. But trust me they got strong abs there Next question is from t.m. Goodner Can you help explain why bodybuilding or strength training results in limited mobility? Why is it that when we get stronger and build muscle our range of motion is limited And moving in the old ways becomes painful. This is a myth. It's a huge myth. Yeah, however I would like to address why some people experience this because some people definitely do experiences They'll start working out with weights and they'll say i'm stiffer Here's what's happening. Okay. First off. It is a myth proper Full range of motion resistance training Improves functional flexibility. It's one of the best ways to give you better Functional flexibility, but what then why did some people training in full range of motion? Yes. Why do some people get this? Well, if I gain 50% more strength in a short range of motion You see bodybuilders do this all the time like they'll do a shoulder press. They'll stop right here, right? Or they'll do a bench press They'll stop right here or they'll do a row and they'll have short range of motion If you increase your strength dramatically in that short range of motion What happens is you've actually lost stability In the full range of motion and so then what your body does to protect itself Is it maintains your movement within the stronger range of motion? Because if I can theoretically curl 200 pounds from here to here, but then down here It's like 50 pounds anytime I go to curl lifts up my body's going to automatically Prevent me from moving outside of my strong range of motion and that's why you see well It's tightness the actual strength training that's produced. No, it's the way you're training. Yes, and and so to To completely shorten your range of motion and try to squeeze the pinnacle of The bicep or like some of these sort of techniques where we're just trying to hyper focus on You know one element of that lift and not go through full range of motion You can do it enough times where your body is Going to sort of Prioritize where you're strong and where you're not as strong and so you you have a governing system in your body that limits The ability of you getting hurt, you know by applying force where you're not Strong and so it's it's really like what you're what are you teaching your body how to do where you're going to be strong in terms of That that specific range of motion you got to address that specifically With weights and get that end range strength.  Yeah, you're already training in a shortened range of motion Um on a regular basis and to the point that you were making And then in addition to that you're also caught in this trap of always chasing being sore all the time to prove to yourself that you had a good workout and so you're walking around stiff and tight and it feels like you've lost range of motion because You are are locked up and you've gotten strength in the shortened range of motion And you don't train in the full range of motion And so it then people make this connection of oh wow Being a bodybuilder or training for strength limits my range of motion up and it's like no, that's not the Bad training does You know and that I mean that's part of what we're always trying to address on here When you hear us talking about training through full range of motion And if you can't is to work on that because Strength training is one of the best ways to do that and it's it's the complete opposite of what people think Look, it's it's no different than this like, um, you know having trained lots of clients You'll get the occasional female executive who wears heels Every single day for years and years at work and what you'll find is really tight calf muscles and tight muscles of the foot Now is that because what she's doing is shortening the muscle and somehow or she's losing range of motion because the muscle itself is tight or no What's happened is because she's always with this toe point all the time Flex position she's got really strong in that flex position And that strength now is disproportionate to the other ranges of motion of the foot and the ankle And so the protection mechanism that that the body produces is it limits The range of motion because look here's how flexibility works, right? It's controlled by your central nervous system It's not controlled by the muscle as if it were like a city or something Yeah, it's not like a rubber band that if you heat it up it gets more flexible And if you cold it all you know make it cold it gets brittle That's I remember once it was explaining me that way when I was an early trainer That's not at all what's happening. I thought that initially Yeah, it's not at all. What's happening the central nervous system controls it. It'll tell a muscle relax We feel safe. You can stretch or we got to be tight oftentimes people will be tight And it's not the muscles that are tight. It's the cns saying limit this range of motion anything outside of this range of motion We're weak is weak and it's unstable So if you get really strong if you're if you're look at a full squat, right? All the way down all the way up and you get really strong at a half squatting like really strong The the the ratio of your strength from the half squat to full squat now is so broad That when you go do anything and you squat down your body's gonna limit it It's gonna say outside of that get tight outside of that get tight because we don't want to go down And protect you protect you. Yes. That's really the mechanism that's in place Yes, it's an important one for your body to have so you don't just tear your muscle right off the bone Right, but full range of motion resistance training Full range of motion is that's the opposite it increases the strength all the way through the range of motion Increases stability and now you have real functional flexibility that can work in the real world Now you may be thinking I can't do Full range of motion on some exercises. That's okay The goal is to be able to get there though So your goal is to work towards that point through correctional exercise You can use programs like maps prime pro You can go lighter Correct your form But the full range of motion training does the opposite of what you see sometimes with meat heads where they're super stiff Well, this is this also highlights the the young often you hear this too with Young kids who don't want to do mobility work because they don't have any aches and pains There are other reasons why you should be training mobility besides just to prevent Chronic pain and I think that's how it's commonly used right now Like it's not hard convincing a 40 year old plus that listens to this show that they should do mobility because they're like Yeah, and I they feel the difference immediately when they do it But if you're young and you train like a bodybuilder or you try to press the weight and build all this muscle And you are not working through full range of motion This is a reason why you want to incorporate mobility in your training so you don't end up in this situation Totally look you're you get a lot of check engine lights that appear before pain Okay, so pain is like it's like you have a check engine light on you ignore it and then smoke starts coming out of the engine That's pain by the time you hurt Lots of things have led up to that point So for someone who's young and listening and saying well, I feel fine that doesn't mean you are fine Okay, that just means you haven't got to the point where the pain will start to happen By the way, once you start to hurt You have to backtrack and it takes a while and it's not just when the pain stops You still got more room to go before you're you're doing really great And I will say this just to entice young people even more Mobility training will make you build more muscle and and make you stronger anyway because it improves your connection your range of motion So forget the pain part you want to maximize your results in the gym Uh, work on mobility work on mobility now work on mobility always it'll do that Next question is from Rolando Chavez to our massage guns a helpful tool for recovery Wow, you know, there's mixed messages talked about this in a while with massage So some studies will show it doesn't facilitate recovery other studies will show It does help facilitate recover. I'm in the camp that it does Now we'll get to massage guns in a second, but I'm talking about massage First in general like a good massage practitioner because that's the gold standard, right? You have someone who really knows what they're doing work on your body Here's why I think massage improves uh or helps facilitate recovery Now there's the argument it moves fluid through the body it helps with the inflammation it helps Get the signaling to happen and recovery work faster Maybe that might be happening But here's the the main reason why I think it helps facilitate recovery a good massage What massage does when you press on a muscle Is it sends a signal to the central nervous system and it says relax?  This doesn't need to be so tight, you know You get you get this kind of feedback mechanism the cns relaxes it interrupts that feedback mechanism Yes, that helps with recovery because if your muscles are as are constantly kind of tight That's going to prevent recovery because it's it's it's a little bit damaging Especially over time when you have this tight, you know, I've gotten sore Just from being tight in an area for too long So I think massage helps you move better and helps release The cns a little bit which then allows the recovery to happen a little faster I think yeah, it needs that that break from that the constant loop It's it it's almost like once you get in that loop and anything you do That's not even a movement that should affect that area like your body is just going to tense up a bit more A bit more over and over and over and you just get in this perpetual loop that If you need to like physically address it and I think that it's really helpful to get that that outside stimulus to Break that up and then allow, you know more range of motion even if it's temporary which You know we found is you know the the effect doesn't last very long But now you can really work on mobilizing it getting more circulation Well, that's the key to me the the key is not so much the massage gun or the massage is what you do with it afterwards It's you get the temporary relief so that you can then go train Your mobility work properly then train in full range of motion right like that That's the it's like the phone roll right it's the same same type of a concept where so if I had a massage it's just self applied Yeah, I don't have one, but I would totally use one. I mean, I think I think it'd be a cool tool to have I don't really it's not that big of a deal for me to carry it around I also think that you can do that with a phone roll I can do my wife is a massage therapist So she can do it with her hands and so I think if I get like really locked up hips from like Overreaching on squatting maybe a couple days ago and then I'm back to you know Maybe I'm lunging or deadlifting today and I'm still stiff and locked up from that Like something that would release all that is a good massage before I go in and then do some great mobility work And then go into my deadlifting session. I mean, that's how I would use something like that And I think it's a useful tool I don't I think the way it's promoted and it's sold and the way a lot of people think of it is this Idea of like, you know the pro athletes use it speeds recovery up and like if I want to get the maximum gains and results I'm going to use these tools so I can get faster recovery and I can go with it's to me It's not like that I don't I don't see and if and even if it is giving you like that you're talking about Splitting hair difference as far as the competitive edge It's going to the magic is in how it's used just like you said Adam If if a muscle is tight and it's preventing me from moving in a way That's going to help do a correctional exercise or moving in a way that's going to give me better technique or form then loosening that muscle up through massage Is a phenomenal tool in that sense But if I just loosen the muscle up and then leave it alone What's going to happen is whatever caused it to be tight is still there So it's going to tighten up again This is why people go to the same massage therapist every single week for the same areas. Oh, it's always my neck It's always like you never fix it. It's good for business But yeah, well, I'll tell you what I had trip when I had my wellness studio Some of the best results I had with clients or when I had a client work with me as a trainer Uh with our hormone and nutrition specialist. That's obvious and a massage therapist We had this excellent massage therapist and what would happen is I would do my assessment and I'd say things like oh forward shoulder anterior pelvic tilt I would do my correctional exercise Then the next time they came around they would see the massage therapist first and they come see me And I could like right away get into certain movements and the results were were Super fast now. Here's my thing with massage massage guns Massage therapists and you talk to anybody who's really good at massage therapy There's a there's a lot of art and science into what they do It's not just You know rubbing you down and massaging you a really good massage therapist knows the body In their context as well as a really good trainer knows the body in the context of exercise The problem with massage guns is you give them to everyday regular people They don't understand so much and all they do is they go right to that one pain spot Yeah, and they're just they're not helping themselves because they're just hammering areas that hurt and they get that temporary kind of relief So you got to kind of know So if you combine it with correctional exercise, you know what muscles to get out of the way with massage Unbelievable if you don't know then it's it's kind of like a waste of time You know you just brought something that's a good point too I mean this is something Katrina's talked to me about many times before too is you can overdo these things too totally So it's not like the more is better either like there's a there's a sweet spot of that is the idea is to get the To get you to relax the the muscle to calm down for a second so I can then go put the work in But if you just are getting or digging in or you are just right You could actually get sore from that and it completely defeats the whole purpose of why you just did that You just did it to get some temporary relief So you could go put some more work in or work on mobility or go train And if you actually do it so deep and so hard that it still hinders the workout It kind of defeats the purpose of why you're using absolutely now Here's the other thing is that uh, they are all massage tools are a poor substitute for human touch There's so much value that comes from human touch that nobody ever talks about and the health and fitness space Well, maybe not a lot of people some people do but it's not very popular So many healing properties so many recovery like I remember I would get clients that would come in they'd work with me And they were super usually older clients like oh, no, I don't want a massage I don't want anybody touching me you get this and then I'd convince them And the the benefits they get just from having a person touch them and you know push on tender areas and whatever it was like It was almost miraculous in some way So the the value that you get from good massage from a person Is who knows what they're doing is uh, I mean, they're as valuable as a good trainer in in my experience That's the only reason why I think I don't have one of these guns is big simply because your wife Yeah, I think she's incredible at that and to me It's just like if I really locked up or a situation like that she'll she'll do that You know, so it doesn't make and that's the best I think in my in my opinion Yeah, you can if you've got that if you've got somebody who understands the body like we do as trainers I mean, it's amazing. She I don't even need to tell her what I did like as soon as she'll see it Yeah, she'll as soon as she starts moving her hands on me instantly. She goes right to where I'm at like so I think that that beats a Good therapist can really like read your entire body and your body language and how you react to You know pressure and it's really interesting to me like They have lots of terms, you know to define all that but I'm just like whatever this was amazing Well, you remember when we we went through uh, the al doha stuff like the fascia lines and so like that What always fascinated for me and you know, she doesn't have an al doha certification and and like her Their schooling is a little bit different what they go through But I remember when we for and I understand the body and anatomy really well as you guys do Uh, it would trip me out sometimes She would you know, she would do something like in my calf And it would release something in like my upper back or something would trip me out You know like I knew I had to miss you up here, but then all of a sudden she would push a totally different art You understand that collateral fact Yeah, so if you if you understand those fascia lines and how how long they run You can go work your way down another part of the body to give relief and a completely off Like you ain't the average person owns a third gun isn't isn't able to do here's what here's what it makes me Think of it's like having a dumbbell like a dumbbell can be a very valuable tool You just gotta know how to use it. So I would like to see massage guns Come with programs that help you assess and then apply and use rather than the indiscriminate use of a massage gun I have it and I just push on things that hurt because I don't see they don't think there's tons of value in that I think you're just you're kind of shooting in the dark and poking what hurts And that doesn't necessarily help you if you're not doing it the right way Next question is from april young fitness can eating fat in your post workout meal Slow down digestion and inhibit absorption of nutrients the slow down. Yes inhibit. No. Yeah, not even close Fat increases absorption.  Okay.  Nobody drank whole milk They found that in of course skim milk also was high in calcium all milk is high in calcium They found that kids who drank lots of skim milk Even though they fortified it fortified it with vitamin d Lactose at that point and well, it's just it's just protein and lactose Yeah, so sugar and it had protein calcium fortified with vitamin d weaker bones low calcium Because it weren't absorbing it because there was no fat in the milk.  Okay, let me tell you about the supplement industry and how They have distorted kind of what's important. So the whole messaging behind protein shakes a brilliant marketing strategy was to say that uh, one of the one of the ways that it helps you recover Faster and build muscle faster is take advantage of what's known as this post anabolic Window and you want to get as many nutrients absorbed as quickly as possible In that post anabolic window and the studies will show that you'll replenish glycogen and amino acids Faster with certain types of carbohydrates like waxy maize was one or you know dextrose even people would use Or fast digesting proteins like whey protein isolate and it is true You'll get glycogen in your muscles faster and it'll it'll happen quicker with You know a low fat high protein high carbohydrate, especially if it's a predigested shake of some sort So what? It absorbs just fine if it goes slower too. There's no advantage to it getting absorbed faster Unless you plan on doing another workout in one hour So if I do a workout or I do play a game and I got another game in an hour Yeah, i'm gonna want those carbs and and amino acids in my systems right away if i'm working out once today I could even fast all day long eat at night So long as the calories are the same same day. You're the same benefit.   No, it's it's it's total crap Doesn't matter if you have fat unless Again, you plan on working out right after in which case then then you want something that's very quick digesting and absorbing Look, if you like our information head over to mind pump free.com and check out our guides We have guides that can help you with almost any fitness goal You can also find all of us on social media So justin is on instagram at mind pump. Justin Adam is on instagram at mind pump. Adam and you can find me on twitter at mind pump. So


Assalamu alaikum viewers, welcome to virtual university and welcome to your English class. If you notice the title of today's lesson, it is ways of organizing texts, it is the same as the one we had last time. This time we are going to talk about two other ways of organizing texts and these are cyclic process and cause and effect. In the last lesson, you learned how to write a time based or a chronological sequence and a linear process, a process that consists of a series of stages and which has a clear beginning and an end. In today's lesson, you will still be looking at processes but this time it will be a cyclic process and not a linear one. A natural process is more likely to be cyclic than linear. As the word cyclic itself tells you, in a cyclic process there is no clear beginning or end so that the cycle continues. You will see on your screen two diagrams and these diagrams illustrate the difference between the two types of processes. A cyclic process is described in very much the same way as a linear process except that it is not always clear where a cycle begins and where a cycle ends. If you look at the linear process as the word linear tells you it is in a line, one step after the other. First you have the input then you have step A followed by step B followed by step C and then followed by step D and the output or the result. You can name these steps as A, B, C, D or you can name them as step 1, step 2, step 3, step 4 whatever but there is always some input and then you have an output or a result at the end. In contrast a cyclic process you have a number of steps and these steps keep going on and on and on and on. One merges into the other, one emerges from the other and the cycle continues. Now you will see a flow diagram which illustrates the carbon cycle. The diagram shows how carbon is found in the atmosphere, in animals, in plants and in the soil. Below the diagram, the flow diagram is a list of sentences which describes the stages in a cycle. These sentences are not in an acceptable sequence. You use this flow diagram, you use it as a guide and you match the sentences with the stages in the flow diagram to produce a text which is acceptable, which is in acceptable sequence. You look at the carbon cycle and you will notice that the process continues. There is carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which is a result of the burning of coal, wood, oil and then you have green plants, plants which are eaten by animals and these plants carbon dioxide is to be found in the atmosphere because of the respiration of a plants and in the same way you have respiration of animals, the animals who eat the green plants and their respiration it all goes into the atmosphere. Then you have got plants and animals that are decayed by bacteria and fungi. Some people say fungi, some say fungi, both are correct. So you have plants and vegetables that are decayed and they also give out carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Then you have got volcanoes, these volcanoes also give out carbon dioxide and you find that this circle continues and this diagram, the flow diagram which is in a cycle form it does not look very cyclical I know but it is describing a cycle. You will find sentences based on the information that is given in the diagram, these sentences are not in the correct order. Look at them and see if you can put them in an acceptable sequence. Number one look at sentence number one sometimes when plants and animals die in decay bacteria act upon the decayed body and liberate carbon dioxide as one of the products. Now your knowledge of sequences can come into use over here. Similarly plants respire at night and give out carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Sentence number three but this never happens because when plants take in carbon dioxide during the daytime animals give out carbon dioxide as a result of respiration. Carbon dioxide sentence number four carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is used by plants for photosynthesis. Sentence five sometimes coal, wood and oil are burnt and this produces carbon dioxide gas which goes to the atmosphere. Sentence number six this is known as the carbon cycle in nature. Sentence number seven so in this way carbon dioxide is returned to the atmosphere. Number eight carbon dioxide is usually found in the atmosphere while the compounds such as carbohydrates, carbonates and bicarbonates are found in animals in plants and in the soil. Number nine sentence number nine therefore there is always a continuous cycle in which carbon is being removed and replaced in some way or other. And the last sentence number ten if plants keep on removing carbon dioxide from the air from the atmosphere then very soon the atmosphere may be without any carbon dioxide. Now look at these sentences again which one would be number one. The sentence marked number eight carbon dioxide is usually found in the atmosphere that is number one. Sentence number eight the roman number eight should be number one. Sentence number four would be carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is used by plants for photosynthesis. That would be number two right sentence number four would come second and sentence number ten if plants keep on removing carbon dioxide that should be number three if you look at the screen again. Sentence number two roman two similarly plants respire at night that should be sentence number five to be followed by sentence number one sometimes when plants and animals die that is number six right. And that sentence should be followed by therefore there is always a continuous cycle which is number nine and the last sentence should be sentence number six which is this is known as the carbon cycle in nature. Now that was one sample for you. Let us look at another sample of how cyclic writing takes place. On your screen you will see the life cycle of the malaria parasite. Look at it carefully look at the different stages. Number one the mosquito inject saliva when it bites parasites enter the blood of man that is followed by the next stage which is parasites then enter the liver the liver of the man who has been bitten by the mosquito they change that is the parasites change and the increase in number that is stage two which is followed by the third stage which is parasites then enter the blood cells this causes an attack of malaria and this is followed by the fourth stage where parasites change again and a new form of parasites and new form of parasites enters mosquitoes. Number four can also from number four from the man the mosquito bites the man sucks the blood from man and the cycle goes on the parasites pass from the stomach of the mosquito to the saliva and back again. So it is the circle has been completed now I hope you looked at that diagram carefully and look at the text now this is the text that is written that is based on that illustration right now some of the sentence over here should not be there that is there are a few sentences that are irrelevant this text is based on the flow diagram on the life cycle of the malaria parasite there are some sentences in this text read it and see if you can spot a sentence or two that does not will belong in this passage in this text just note the the sentences are marked they are numbered note mentally which sentences do not belong in that passage which ones are irrelevant sentence number one malaria is caused by tiny one celled animal parasites called plasmodia that are injected into the blood of man by the female anopheles mosquito number two some diseases are transmitted by tiny water animals sentence number three the anopheles mosquito sucks blood from a person with malaria number four once in the stomach of the mosquito these parasites undergo some development and end up in the mosquitoes slivery glands and the fifth sentence house flies transmit microbes on their feet number six if this mosquito now bites a healthy person it introduces some parasites together with the saliva into the blood of the person sentence number seven the malaria parasites then enter the person's liver in which they change and multiply sentence number eight from there they pass into the blood cells where they cause the malaria attack and sentence number nine the last sentence the spread of insect-borne diseases can be controlled now out of those nine sentences there were two sentences that were not related to the text or to the diagram which sentences were they go through it one to the sentences are numbered for you and I am sure that makes it easy for you to spot them those are the sentences the irrelevant sentences are number two some diseases are transmitted by tiny water animals and sentence number five house flies transmit microbes on their feet these two sentences are not part of the life cycle of the malaria parasite therefore they do not form part of the text right now that was a short practice session for you to realize that when you are writing a cyclic process you have to follow according to the illustration the diagram here is another practice session you have a diagram which shows you how water is treated and made clean for use write a description of this cycle right this is part of your homework you are going to follow the same pattern as you have seen and you will see in today's lesson write a description of this cycle quickly make a note of the cycle you can see it on your screen it is a cycle of how water is treated and made clean for use but you have to keep a few things in mind a few points in mind number one to explain the cycle consider the best point to enter it where will you enter it from where are you going to start number two you break down the cycle into stages consider the basis on which the stages might be defined use a thesis statement for the introductory paragraph number three use topic sentences for each paragraph within the text and number four give a title to your writing I have already mentioned to you what the diagram is about if you look at that diagram I know it does it's not exactly cyclic but it is moving around in the form of a circle it talks about domestic waste water from the kitchen water from washing water from the bath water from the WC the water closet then you've got other domestic uses how they are used water is used in the house because in our part of the world which is hot we do a lot of washing we do a lot of people wash their the floors then you've got water in the water pipes and all this water from the kitchen waste from the house waste it goes into the purification plant and in the purification plant they pump clean water and in the purification plant in that plant some water is discharged into the sea or into the river whichever is nearer and then you've got a lot of water which is collected from sewage tanks from sewage plants and some of it is sent to factories fertilizer factories and other factories where they are converted to fertilizers and how water from sewers and from domestic waste how it is clean and purified now you've seen the cycle and I have given you the hints write an essay one paragraph two paragraphs three paragraphs well it should be more than one paragraph write one of three to three to four paragraphs and I hope you are now in a position not only to follow a text written with a cyclical structure but also to write a description of a cycle. Now we shall move on to the third type of linear description which is the cause effect relationship at the heart of all scientific disciplines is the attempt to analyze cause and effect in our daily lives we deal with causes and effects of things what is the effect of something what causes something we look for causes of failure in our students we try to discover the problems the causes of children's erratic behavior we look for political causes for the political causes of the downfall of a certain government we look for economic causes we look for and all the time you will notice that political statements economic specialists economists they are theorizing they are giving theories about the cause or causes of the collapse of economic systems political systems unemployment etc etc so you notice that cause and effect is something that which with which we deal in our daily lives now remember cause and effect is also a linear process it is a linear relationship sorry not process a linear relationship in real life causes always precede effects as you will notice from the following passage read this passage it consists of six sentences the sentences are marked for you and you have to look for the causes and the effects in the northern areas of Pakistan the once magnificent forest are slowly being destroyed by the effects of air pollution pine trees dying from pollution lose their needles allowing sunlight to reach the forest floor during this process grass thrives in the increased sunlight and drives out the plants native to the soil such as moss which helps to hold rain water the soil thus loses its natural power to absorb water and in turn becomes hard which causes rain and snow to slide over the ground instead of being slowly absorbed into it this results in erosion of the soil after a heavy downpour the eroded land finally falls away in huge landslides destroying villages and whatever else comes in its way and later causes floods in the plains now in that paragraph you will notice the whole paragraph is about it is showing the cause effect relationship look at the causes the first cause mentioned is air pollution and at the same time the effect is also mentioned the effect is that forests are being destroyed the second cause is also given there the second cause is that sunlight causes grass to grow right and when grass grows what happens the native plants are driven out now why does sunlight cause grass to grow the sunlight causes grass to grow because pine trees are losing their needles so you see one thing is interlinked with the other then because the native plants like moss which have the capacity to retain rain water they are driven out the soil loses its capacity to retain water it becomes hard and the result is the effect is that soil erosion takes place and landslides occur and when landslides occur you find that huge chunks of land break and they slide down the mountain side with the result that villages are destroyed and there is a lot of destruction and later on in the plains flooding occurs now in that passage you noticed that it was not easy to determine the causes and the effects if one merges into the other now it is not easy to determine causes with any degree of certainty why for a number of reasons firstly the existence of a clear time relation a clear relationship a clear time relationship between two events happening during the same period of time does not mean that one is the cause of the other just because two things took place at the same time does not mean that one is causing the other that is why sometimes we have problems in locating cause and effect secondly it is quite easy to confuse effect with cause and we often make assumptions sometimes two events are so closely related in time that we can show that relationship statistically it could be that both events are effects of the same cause here we must be careful not to make assumptions determining cause and effect is not easy in writing let me repeat determining cause and effect is not easy in writing because you have to provide evidence therefore sweeping statements should be avoided in writing in writing you must always provide evidence do not make sweeping statements in the English language there are expressions which make it easy for writers to say things for which they may not have 100% evidence there are plenty of expressions which give a margin to the writer you have expressions like may be suggest probably it is said that in most likelihood you have the word likelihood these are expressions another expression is there is evidence to suggest that now these are not categorically categoric statements if you say maybe if you say probably it is likely you are not 100% sure and you can get away with it right so these expressions show that the evidence is not 100% certain now you can see this on a diagram on a table the table it gives you some guidelines on the language available for writers to state their degree of certainty when you are 100% sure completely right the verb that you can use is is not if it is it isn't you are 100% sure when you say when you are again 100% sure you can say will this will happen this must happen or this must not take place these are expressions that show a complete degree of certainty even with adverbs adverbs like certainly definitely clearly undoubtedly actually these are all adverbs and these are all adverbs that you can use with complete assurance with complete certainty these these words convey that feeling and when you are partially certain partially you could be less strong very strong but partial even partiality has a scale you can use expressions like can cannot can could should may might right these are all verbs that show a certain degree of you are not certain you can do it right then adverbs probably presumably possibly perhaps the word perhaps is a good one it shows that you are not sure perhaps he'll come perhaps he might not and where you want to show impersonal or no commitment you use expressions like it is said that so and so reports that or there is evidence to suggest that now these are certain grammatical terms that you must keep in mind now cause and effect are very closely related there are several ways of expressing cause and effect cause effect relationship in English you may either place the cause or the effect first in the sentence and you will look at two sentences that contain the same expression yet one focuses on cause while the other focuses on effect take the first sentence because of his depression he remained quiet because of his depression he remained quiet the cause is depression the effect is he remained quiet now over here the focus is cause the second one is he remained quiet because of his depression and the focus is in the second one the focus is on effect now when you write about cause and effect you have to decide for yourself whether the cause or the effect is more important to you and what you will focus on there are many ways of expressing causal relations in English and the simplest the simplest way of showing cause is by using the expression because plus the clause for example take the sentence the war started because the extremists had the upper hand in the government now in that sentence the word because tell tells you the cause what is the cause the cause is the extremists had the upper hand in the government let us have some more practice there is a passage and you notice there are three expressions used by the writer to show causality that is cause use C for cause and E for effect the text is tuberculosis of the lungs pulmonary pulmonary tuberculosis is caused by in by infection of the lungs with the tuberculosis pulmonary damage is almost is due almost entirely to the human form of the tuberculosis as distinct from the type found in cattle which is mainly responsible for glandular and bovine tuberculosis the bacteria lodge in the lungs are set up a chronic inflammation of a specific type they produce areas of infiltration which have a characteristic tubercle formation hence the name for the organism right this was a passage taken from a book called study writing right now if you look at that passage it is a difficult passage it talks about pulmonary tuberculosis tuberculosis of the lungs now you have to spot the places where which show cause look at the first sentence pulmonary tuberculosis is caused by infection very simple it is the phrase is caused is caused by the infection of the lungs with the tubercle bacillus look at sentence number two pulmonary damage is due almost entirely to the human form over there the effect is pulmonary damage the cause is is due almost entirely that expression shows the cause and the effect is pulmonary damage and the phrase the type found in cattle that is a cause and the next one is mainly responsible that is the effect look at number three there is no cause or effect mentioned sentence number four they produce areas of infiltration that is cause and at the end of the sentence you have hence the name for the organism that is the effect now in this passage if you look at it again you will see there are clear expressions used by the writer to show causality to show the cause and effect if you can spot the cause you would have no problems in spotting the effect let us look at another text and you notice which words in the text show cause and effect relationship I will read it out for you when rain falls on mountains it collects in depressions in the rocks the extreme cold causes the ice to freeze and glaciers to form the ice melts and freezes again due to changes in the temperature erosion of the rock of the mountain of the mountain depression occurs as a result of the continual melting and refreezing and it and is worsened by the action of wind moving the water eventually the water wears away the rock to form a small stream which carries deposits of soil and rock which cause further erosion gradually enlarging the stream now this passage was from a geography textbook now notice there are words over here in this passage which show cause and effect relationship in the first sentence when rain falls on mountains it collects in depressions in the rocks is there any expression are there any words that show cause and effect none at all look at the next sentence number 2 the extreme cold causes the ice to freeze and glaciers to form yes very simple you have the word cause and that itself tells you the cause it is the extreme cold that causes the ice to freeze sentence number 3 the ice melts and freezes again due to changes in temperature now which expression is used over there and it is the expression due to which shows the effect number 4 erosion of the rock of the mountain depression occurs as a result of the continual melting and the refreezing and is worsened by the action of wind moving the water over there you have plenty of expressions the first one is as a result which is showing effect and the next one is worsened by that is also effect and the third one is worsened by or increased by the action of wind moving in the water you have two effects over there and in the last sentence eventually the water ways away the rock to form a small stream and to form is effect that is the effect the effect of the water wearing away the rock and further down it says it carries deposits of soil and rock which cause further erosion gradually enlarging the stream and you have the expression cause now when you write you have to be very careful and use words that show a cause effect relationship now read the following text you have another piece of passage a text and see if you can spot cause and effect words in this passage watching television watching watching violence on television is beneficial and helps decrease violent behavior because viewers get rid of some of their own aggressive impulses through viewing and in this way reduce the chance that they will perform aggressive acts I am sure you have never heard such a view expressed before but some people think that if you watch violence on TV it sort of prevents you from doing that yourself now in that sentence notice it is one single sentence can you spot the cause and effect words over there yes the word because is there and I said because plus the whole clause and over there the word because tells you that this is the cause viewers get rid of some of their own aggressive impulses the cause is given you watching violence on TV is beneficial right why because viewers get rid of some of their own aggressive impulses that is the cause plus the clause that goes through viewing and in this way reduce the chance that they will perform aggressive acts now in today's lesson you became familiar with cause and effect structures in texts and you became familiar with expressions of certainty and doubt and before that we looked at cyclic process and you learnt that when you write a cyclic description you may begin anywhere in the process now you should be able to identify and express cause and effect accurately and clearly using suitable expressions of certainty and you should be able to write cause and effect relationships in a clear manner I am sure you realize that writing cause and effect is not easy but we had practice in today's lesson and you should be able to write cause and effect passages next time we shall look at spatial relations how in writing you write about places their locations and we will look at another way of organizing text and that is classification again these are ways that are used by people studying science writing cyclic processes writing processes that are linear writing definitions writing classifications. So in today's lesson you became familiar with cause and effect structures in text you became familiar with expressions of certainty and doubt and you should be able to identify and express cause and effect accurately and clearly and you should be able to use suitable expressions of certainty and of cause and effect Allah Hafiz see you next time for the Hafiz.


Hello and welcome to the update. I'm Chesa Salisbury. And I'm Jared Oates. And these are the latest stories. President Trump ordered the firing of 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airbase on Thursday in response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's chemical attack on citizens earlier in the week. And it really just makes you sad about the results of the election because if Hillary had won, she would have never bombed the Middle East. I'm just kidding, of course she would. She would already have a favorite drone that she'd have a pet name for at this point. On Wednesday, former presidential candidate Ben Carson had to be rescued from an elevator in Miami. We encourage our viewers to think of as many jokes as they can that begin with, so there's a neurosurgeon stuck in an elevator in Miami. Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, after being confirmed by the Senate after the GOP deployed the nuclear option, was sworn in on Monday. Although I thought it was a little cruel that they made Merrick Garland hold the Bible. Sean Spicer has come forward with apologies for his confusing statements the other day where he claimed that Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons against his own people during World War II. In part of his statement, he said, on a professional level, it's disappointing because I feel I've let the president down. Yeah, because the person that you should be apologizing to is someone who had nothing to do with the comments, not the masses of people who were murdered and tortured under a fascist regime. A man was physically removed from a United Airlines flight on Sunday after the flight was overbooked. He was dragged away, his face ended up bleeding, and he eventually was removed on a stretcher. So all in all, not much worse than a normal United flight. Allegedly, the United crew was trying to make room on the overbooked flight, which begs the question, how do you overbook a flight? It's not a mystery how many seats there are.  According to a morning console poll released Tuesday, Bernie Sanders is now the most popular U.S. senator, although that's kind of the definition of too little, too late. I mean, I could imagine Bernie reading the results of the poll and being like, where were you all during the primaries? The LA Times claims that car service Uber could be facing a $1.1 million state fine for not more closely investigating if its drivers have been intoxicated. Wait, you mean to tell me that you can get an Uber where the driver isn't stoned? 420, the marijuana holiday, is this coming Thursday, and millions are expected to celebrate by sparking up. However, there are some health concerns that come with smoking marijuana, and some have even indicated that it contributes to short-term memory loss. However, I personally don't think this is an issue at all with smoking marijuana. Lastly, in entertainment news, Harry Potter fans will rejoice to hear that Jude Law has been cast as a young Dumbledore in the upcoming Fantastic Beasts sequel. He was cast after his work in The Young Pope, a show which proved that he could really do what he wanted to do. The Young Pope is the most popular U.S. senator in the U.S. and has been cast as a young Dumbledore in the upcoming Fantastic Beasts sequel. He was cast after his work in The Young Pope, a show which proved that he could really do what he wanted to do. A show which proved that he could really delve into a character, but more importantly, that he can act in silly hats. That's all we've got for you this week. This has been the update. Take it easy.