Jerry of the circus for Jerry of the circus there you are Mr. Randall I'm glad you got here I tell you I've been over and over these accounts and checked with the bank and I'm sure we didn't take in one bad bill in Evansville don't say that hardly seems possible for so much money in that town the very day we were there to have you ask me it looks like a plant what do you mean look the town is flooded with kind of it and happens the very day the circus plays a town not the day before all the day after well and the circus doesn't take in one phone of course we didn't take in some kind of it for them yeah but that kind of it was being passed around there for several days but if you remember the most of it was planned the day the fair clothes and pretty smart trick to less danger of getting caught the last day but it also was the last day of the circus Jim Bennett you're not suggesting that someone in this circus is passing out that kind of looks mighty like it don't it oh but Jim you know our folks why why most of them have been with me for years I know them better than my own family sure I know that as well as anyone but it looks to me like whoever these criminals are they're trying to make it look like the circus was to blame Jim I believe we've hit on something I always did say you could think faster than anybody else in the business of all the low-down sneaking me buddy yeah what you want I'm looking for Mr. Randall could you direct me to it and what you want with him I'm the manager my name's Hadley I've been sent up here by the Allendale police station oh yes I was expecting you I'm Randall come around to the side door here yes sir be right with you I'm sorry boss I thought he might be one of those busy bodies always take up your time and you're perfectly right Jim listen if you didn't get rid of half these people that bother me in every town I'd never get any work done well Mr. Randall you're able to check on the money yeah step right into the wagon had a this is Jim Bennett my right hand man how'd he been it glad to meet you Hadley and Jim's has gone through the whole day's take very carefully and we can't seem to spot one bad bill the counterfeit's been coming in in ten dollars mostly hasn't it yeah well Mr. Randall I'm afraid I'll have to hang around here today how do you mean well the chief said he wanted me to work here in the box office with your ticket seller and have a couple of plain clothes man stay in the crowd if any phonies come through the window I can tip the plain clothes man to follow whoever's passing well that's fair enough I'll be glad to cooperate any bad money picked up in this town yet no and there's not going to be if we can help it reports from Fordham and Evansville certainly should give you the drop on those guys if they pull me phony business in this place I hope so we've notified the main stores and hotels in town but it's not so easy there's a convention here it's pretty hard to check yes I heard there was a convention here from all over the state guess that would hurt our business done I hope to tell you well I've got a check on Belco's new act going on this afternoon you're not wasting any time taking Belco out of the side show and put them on the parade and no sir I'm afraid the major will blow up if I let Belco hang around the side show much longer I hear Belco went around the major after going through his routine for you this morning and then he gave that midget apoplexy with his bragging we'll make yourself at home Hadley I'll be back up to the parade and by then we'll know whether anything is coming in during the three genre admission please yes sir well business picking up and I'll be going to say I'm glad I got you have you got a minute well sure thing Kelly I've got to see Belco before the show starts but well how are your patients that's what I want to see you about that so a doc seemed quite pleased with their progress this morning so am I more data good meal again this morning how about the cat oh it's getting along all right poor thing was half star but something's wrong with his hand quarters you mind dropping by and seeing it of course Jerry's over there now trying to get the cat to crawl over to the edge of the cage well if it can't walk out of there get away from the edge and I don't blame you for asking you know that crazy new is gone bursar after we left he nudged the cat over into the middle of the cage in his standing guard over won't let anyone get near it that we ain't even been able to get food to it and listen when mods worked up it's no good for anyone to get near those horns of her so wonder she hasn't killed the cat she will if she won't let us fade it knew there's that cumbersome beast with those big books and I don't think we need worry about her stepping on the cat so far she's been terribly careful won't take those huge brown eyes of her off the stray for a minute well I've heard lots of strange animal friendships but this takes the cake a new and an ally cat oh well here we are boss right over here either Jerry having any luck no not a bit but I got an idea yeah what is it well as long as we can't get the cat over here to me we can get her food over there no use it starving to death say that's not a bad idea at that Jerry but then that won't help the doctor much he wants to look it over but at least it'll keep the animal from starving well maybe it's all for the best you know animals have great recuperative powers great what's that word recuperative Jerry that means to get well oh you know Jerry there's a tremendous life force in the body itself often left alone it seems to heal the body better than anything else oh I see yeah I've often noticed that with animals like one rag to say all he wants is to be left alone well of course in the native element animals instinctively know what to do sure often rags runs around and begins eating a lot of grass when he's been kind of sick you see most animals know what's good for them when they're left to their own instincts and but it's different with the circus animals Jerry especially in cages you see that they're not free to roam around and pick up what's good for them so we humans have to use what little we know to try to help them out and I'll tell you sometimes we feel pretty helpful and well I guess Jerry suggested the only thing you can do for this cat Kelly and I tell you one thing those two animals will certainly be a big attraction together like that yeah might be a good idea to have one of the guard station here to explain to the folks how the cats saved the life of the new say that'll be great the kids will be crazy about that and he might add that the new won't let anyone near the cat you better not mention the cat's back is hurt no you're upsetting the crowd I kind of have a hunch you'll get well by itself if the cat gets enough rest and food we hope so well it's nothing else in your mind Kelly I'd better go over and get Velcro started off in the right foot and so long Jiminy it's almost time for the folks to be coming in I say look here come the towners now right this way flows right this way last chance to buy your tickets for the big show sorry no reserve seats left only a few general admissions look like a sellout tonight then yeah the convention must be here in full force had Lee only a few general admissions left now don't miss this chance to see the most gigantic show ever presented to you the lucky citizen of Alameda I wish Mr. Randler to get here did you tell him about oh here he comes now excuse me a minute then I'll catch up with him I'll see you later okay hurry folks hurry hurry only a few choices are there Mr. Randler or Mr. Randler oh there you are I was looking for you now do you mind if we get off this midway I'd like a few quiet words with you of course here a duck behind this chain it'll be quieter good yeah this is better well I suppose you've heard the news you know nothing outside the fact that no kind of it was taken in during the matinee oh you haven't heard them the chief just sent word over that about 40 bad tens were reported about dinner time tonight no where did they did they catch anyone no seems that whoever was spreading the paper was working fast all over town and not one person spotted the bad money not at the time they weren't during the rush hour evidently waited till the stores were filled with customers this is terrible oh what about Bennett did he pick up any of that funny money at the ticket window night yeah two bad tens dribbled in I happen to know both men garage men who got stuck themselves didn't realize they were passing out bad paper did you explain it to them sure they knew me anyhow and I'm glad of that because as a rule if there's any mix up at the ticket window the towners think the circus is trying to cheat him and there's one more thing the chief sent the word that as long as this thing has happened the day your circus in town you'll have to take me on what do you mean well you may not be carrying the guilty party but the law isn't taking any more chances the chief wants someone with this circus who can watch things from the inside well of course anything I can do to help Hadley but I'm afraid you're chasing up the wrong tree most of my people have been with me for years and I trust them anyway I know the way things are you can see why the chief thinks that well looks pretty bad yes of course but how I explain your presence to the performers I don't suppose you want to be known as an officer I should say not oh just say I'm an old friend thinking of putting money in the show for next season and say that yeah I've got it yeah tell them I've always wanted to be a clown you're taking me on while to allow me to get acquainted with the outfit but are you a clown sure I can do anything you say I I've used more disguises in my career than most accurate I can well believe that well what do you think you can do best well I tell you I'm a practical Joker but nature why don't you let me be one of those clowns that mix with the audience and kid them oh you mean a heckler what well that's the that's the name we have for that kind of work heckler clown it's a good idea Hadley or don't worry I'll be so good you'll hate to let me go maybe you'll be so crazy about the circus by then you won't want to leave I hadn't thought of that well if you're working for me you might as well come on meet the gang now sure thing guess my old name is good enough just introduce me as Joe Hatton come through here I'll introduce you to bumps he's one of my best clowns and I'll let him help you with well anything you anything you may need the light it say I think I'm going to like this job I hope so and I'll Mr. Randall if you will furnish me with a complete list of everyone connected with the circus we can go over it pretty thoroughly probably we can check most of the folks in office being beyond report oh I'm sure we can anyhow we'll narrow down the most likely ones I can begin my investigations immediate I have a list ready for you right after the show had oh just a minute here comes a youngster I want you to meet Jerry Jerry come here a minute I want you to meet Joe Hadley Jerry glad to meet you glad to meet you Jerry Jerry will you take Mr. Hadley over to your wagon he's joining the show and I want him to meet bumps and whole crowd sure I'd be glad to I thought of something I'd better attend to you'll be in good hands Hadley I'll explain the bumps later and okay all right with me Mr. Randall and I'll see you after the show yeah remember we leave town tonight at 120 the last section pulls out then so if you've got anything to attend to you'd better get it taken care of thanks Mr. Randall I will goodbye Mr. Randall don't worry about Mr. Hadley I'll see you meet everyone well that's nice and friendly of you Jerry I'll say we got a swell truth you'll like bumps the clown how long you've been with the circus Jerry who me only this season but listen mr. Hadley I'm gonna spend the rest of my life with the circus if I can


One of the biggest points of stress, especially for fitness fanatics, is the following. I've been working out for a while, but now I need to work out less due to unforeseen circumstances. Maybe family life, maybe job, whatever. But the fear is, or the stress is, am I going to lose my gains? How do I do this, but keep all the gains I got during those years of training? So in today's episode, we're going to talk about the ways you can keep your gains while working out less. And believe it or not, sometimes you get more gains. Never go longer than two hours without eating. That was it for me right there. I really believe that if I wasn't eating every two hours, the muscle was falling off my body for sure. That's so terrible. God, that's two hours to the number that they gave us. It was. It was like that. I had like alarms that everything I set off. It's so crappy. No, that's not true. That's not one of them. But you know, I think it's important to know, and the data is pretty good on this, but it's actually pretty clear that there's a certain amount of volume and intensity and frequency. That's required to get your body to progress. And of course that's different from person to person. So the right dose, right? But there's a certain volume and then to keep that muscle is less. You actually need less work to keep what it took to build. This is a fact across the board. In fact, some studies show as much as or as little, I should say, as one ninth the total volume. So if you did nine sets for chest during the week, one set would keep what you built with nine sets. Now, in my experience, I think it's probably more like one fourth or one fifth, but nonetheless, still a big difference. It requires a lot less to keep what you got. And I hope that brings some people some calm. You don't need to do as much as you did to get where you got. You just got to do something. And we'll talk about that. I've seen up to one seventh. I haven't seen one ninth before. I've seen up to one seventh before. Still? Yeah, I know, which is crazy. I remember when the first time that I came across that, it really opened my eyes on how little I do need to do to just maintain that. And also changed the way I kind of looked at stuff. It used to be very all or nothing, right? If I wasn't hammering the weights and dieting, it was just like, oh, what's it all for? Why should I do it at all? When I remember reading this and realizing, oh, wow, even if I went to the gym and just did one exercise, you know, this is going to help maintain the work that I've put in in the previous, say, months or years. Now, to this point, how much of a factor do you think how long you've been lifting consistently for plays a role? I got to think that if you just started lifting weights and you've trained consistently, say, for six months to a year and then all of a sudden you reduced down to, you know, a guy, let's say, someone who's training six days a week, body part split type of routine, built some good muscle, made some good traction, and then you switch to a one day a week full body routine. And that's it.  Then also I changed to a one day full body routine. I feel like I would have the advantage because of all the years of doing that. And I find that at least this has been my experience as I've gotten older that the one advantage of getting older is that it's more years I've been consistently lifting for. And therefore I feel like I can do less to maintain as much.  Yeah, so there's a few factors I would say that probably play into that. One, the data is is clear, I guess, across the board. So wherever you are, and whatever you're doing to get where you are doing less than that will probably will maintain it. Okay, so that's that's true across the board. However, there's some interesting things that happen when you especially when you strength train for years and years and years. And most I would say strength coaches and scientists would say that it probably is due to muscle fiber hyperplasia. So when your muscles grow, the it's called hypertrophy, the muscle fiber itself grows. But then there's a phenomenon we've observed this in animals. And we've done studies on human that that I would say confirm this that not only do muscle fibers grow, but over time you actually those one muscle fiber can become two muscle fibers. Right splits, right? Is that what the theory? Yeah, so you get more muscle fibers. Now, why is that, you know, any different than hypertrophy? Well, when you when you lose muscle, it's when muscle fibers shrink. However, when you multiply or build muscle fibers, they don't go away. So you can shrink muscle fibers. But if you add muscle fibers through hyperplasia, they don't go away. So it's like more it's more permanent muscle gain, which is the same thing that happens with fat, right? Also fat is we do sale the cells just shrink. They don't go away, which is why it's so important to like and we've learned too that you could actually add fat cells in the in the past. We thought they just grew and they shrink. Yeah.  It's potential to increase the amount of fat cells. Right. And so there's the positive side of that, which is the hyperplasia side that you're talking about where you could potentially add more. So you that's what you would attribute that to. So I probably have over those two plus decades of training. You probably have more muscle fibers in your biceps now than you did, you know, 20 years ago or 20 years ago. I'm sure that's a factor. I'm sure too. Just like the overall understanding of your body and like the skill that you've acquired in terms of how to tighten certain screws just, just so. And you're going to get your body to respond.  And it doesn't really, like once you get to a certain level, I feel like it doesn't take quite as much if you can dial it all in together. Yeah. That's a really good point, Joe, because it does seem pretty dramatic for me. Like I feel like the reason why I keep going back to this is that, man, it's a big difference for me. Like I feel like the worst shape that I allow myself to get in in my late 30s, 40s is still better than the best shape I could get into in my early 20s. Which is crazy because I know the work and discipline that I was putting towards. Way harder back then. Yeah. Towards the weights and dieting in my early 20s. Now, to your point, there's probably a hyperplasia that is working to my benefit. And then to Justin's point, you're right. Just from decades of training. You know what to do. I've really honed in on the things that really move the needle. Like no, and we've talked on the show before the importance. Like for me, protein has been such a huge factor with me being able to maintain muscle really close, really easily. I can quickly become the guy who eats sugary foods, high carbohydrates, ignore getting enough protein intake. And that paired with reducing volume of training or eliminating training just is just muscle falls off. Yeah. And that's actually one of the points that we'll get to. Today's giveaway is Maps Strong. If you want to win that program, leave a comment below this video in the first 24 hours that we drop it. Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications. If you have the best comment, we'll let you know in the comment section. Also, we've got a sale going this month on some programs and program bundles. The first program that's on sales maps cardio. The program bundles that are on sale are the Shredded Summer Bundle and the Bikini Bundle. All of those 50% off. If you're interested, just click on the link at the top of the description below. All right. Back to the show. You know, what's interesting too about this topic is that fitness fanatics oftentimes are training too much to begin with. So there's a difference between optimal amount of exercise or strength training, which optimal means this is the perfect amount for your body at this time in the context of your life that is going to build the most strength and the most muscle make you feel the best. So that's optimal. But then there's the most you can tolerate and then there's beyond that, which is over training. The most you can tolerate is more than what is optimal. Now, what do you sacrifice with that? You actually sacrifice some gains. There's a perfect amount and then there's more than that that I can handle. So I can handle more and I'm working out more, but I'm actually getting less results because it's putting too much more of a demand or more of a demand on my body in terms of recovery and it makes the adaptation process harder. So there's optimal and then what you can tolerate. And if you've been working out a long time, what tends to happen through, you know, months and years of exercise is you start to slowly trend and move towards what you can tolerate. It's just natural. You'll work out. You've been doing it for a while. Oh, let me add more. This is fun. Wow. Let me add more. Oh, I think I can handle this. Let me do more. And you move away from optimal and you move much closer to just the most you could tolerate. So you actually sacrifice some gains. So what ends up happening a lot of times with fitness fanatics is they scale their training back because they're forced to and then they get better gains. This happens to me all the time. The first time this happened to me, I went on vacation and there was supposed to be a gym available where I went. They didn't have a gym and so I couldn't work out and it was like two weeks. So two weeks, no exercise. Then I went back, started working out stronger. And I remember thinking like, this is weird. It always trips people out. Yeah. Why am I stronger? And I realized, oh, I must have been over training before. And then there's other times when I've done six days a week and had to go down to three days a week and oh, I hit a new PR. Like, so a lot of people listening right now, you may not just keep your gains. You may actually see yourself progressing more by reducing the volume and the frequency. Yeah. The end game isn't to just keep piling on more and more volume and exercises, which is not really something that's like promoted often and people don't understand that it just seems like adding more of everything was always going to be beneficial.  You got to adjust your training to appropriately find that dose. Yeah.  Still this day. Yeah. That's why we talk about this so much is that when you, when you love training and you, and as we all do, I mean, it's what, there's a reason why we're in the space.  Now that conversation is different for my client who admittedly hates coming to the gym and doesn't want like, so it's like, I'm always very careful like how I communicate this message because, you know, there, there's the other, the other portions and I know there's people are listening like, that's a terrible message because most people are lazy and yeah, okay. Most people put out the effort. Right. But most people also that are those people don't listen to a fitness podcast. People who listen to a fitness podcast tend to be people that are into working out and they want to improve how they work out and they're trying to dial this in and figure out all the hacks and figure out how to do it better. Well, so when we communicate this message, I think it's important to this audience that they understand that when you like to work out, when you get momentum, we tend to overreach and I learned this lesson at least once a year every year, at least once a year. I'm in some sort of a zone and getting after it and feeling great and it's be like your point of vacation comes up or maybe I even get, I haven't had situations where I get sick.  You're barely feeling better.  Like that doesn't make you look better. That's where you like, it really opened your eyes. It's just like, wait a second. I know my body should not be feeling amazing right now because I just got sick for four or five days and I'm back in the gym. I missed my routine and then I come back stronger. That's always very glaring to me that, oh, wow. I had been overreaching. Yeah. And even to take it to a more extreme level for advanced lifters, taking time completely off. Oftentimes is a way to get your body to progress. You know, they've done studies on deload weeks and a deload week is really a week that you go to the gym and you barely work out or don't even work out at all. You can even consider an all week off a deload week and studies show that people progress faster by including those. In fact, one of our latest programs maps on a bullet advanced. We programmed in a deload weeks and people are saying that they're getting great results just from doing that. So it's easy. It's hard to build muscle. Losing it takes a little while. It's not like losing stamina. Like if you run four days a week and then this week, you know, last week and then this week you ran none. You lose stamina pretty quick. Strength sticks around for a little while. It does. Of all the adaptations, strength sticks around, I would say the longest. So that's working for you. Now, the reason why I'm saying all this is to kind of calm people down because the biggest enemy in regards to this particular topic is the fear. Overcorrecting and stuff. Yeah. Like, oh no, I'm not going to work out. I'm going to lose everything type of deals. Like, no, the data is very clear on this. Even if you did nothing for a couple weeks, you're not going to lose anything at all. And oftentimes it'll come back and feel much better. But let's talk about, you know, people have been working out for a while. They work out a lot. Something's happening in their life. Maybe they're about to have a kid or change of jobs or something. And they're like, okay, I know I'm not going to be able to work out as much as I always have. How can I really keep progressing or maintain, you know, what I've built? So we've got some tips here that'll help you do that. The first one is to change the phase of training that you're in. Okay. So a phase would be like a rep range or a rest period or even like a goal, like a mobility phase or a strength phase or like a pumping phase type of deal. Changing the phase stands a new stimulus to the body. It's novel. And that usually gets the body to progress. Well, if you reduce volume but then change the stimulus, even if before you were doing the right amount of volume, that changes stimulus is often enough to offset the reduced volume. So changing phases is something I always had people do when they would have to cut back on their volume in a substantial way. And again, this often would contribute to better results. Yeah. And a lot of times people think that this has to be like a real intense thing. And I'll give you an example of like how I recently have changed a phase up. And part of this, I was forced into this because of an injury. And that was, you know, I had been getting great momentum, heavy deadlifting, heavy squatting. Now I'm kind of like recovering and I'm easing my way back in. And I'm like, God, I don't want to say mind prod thought is like, I don't want to lose all these gains. They work so hard to get so strong. But yet then I also know better, I don't want to go right back to squatting three plus plates and potentially injure myself again. So, you know, the thing that came for me was like, well, you know, when was the last time I did a lot of unilateral leg work and stability stuff. And so here I am doing, you know, light, single leg, deadlift type of movements, walking lunges with a, you know, balance component in it, multi-cause squats, which I never would do with some stability involved in it. So, and man, my legs are so sore as if I squatted three, 400 pounds because it was so novel to my body. And so that is a way of progressively overloading. People always think that in order to either get gains or continue to grow and build muscle, we have to keep adding more load and there's other ways to change up the way you're stimulating that muscle to continue to build muscle. And so I know based on how I feel afterwards, like, oh, I definitely sent a signal to my body to build muscle because I'm sore from that and I didn't have to load. Right. I always look at it like kind of like this pie chart and I know NCI has kind of created something with like the longevity and the aesthetic and the performance focus. But for me, it's like what I haven't touched in a while. And so if I'm doing a big strength phase for a long time and I'm just working on low reps, you know, I need to move more into the higher reps, you know, if I'm in hypertrophy, if I want to, if I haven't done anything with endurance and stamina, you know, and it's been a long time, like, okay, like to shake it up and get my body respond completely differently. Let's go into that and let's do that for like three or four weeks, you know, mobility. So there's, there's different, there's different pursuits that if you just like change the rep ranges of tempo, like a lot of these sort of acute variables, it's going to get the body to get sort of that, that stimulus that's like, oh wow, it's almost like when you first started your training program in the beginning. Yeah. Now the next one, this one is one everybody tends to do. So I'm going to caution people because you can overdo this as well. But if you do it right, it's actually quite effective. And that's to increase the intensity of your workout. So if you were doing 15 sets in a workout, now you're doing five. Well, if you did those five harder theoretically, you should be able to get the same kind of results. That's to the point where the lower volume now doesn't matter.  So I've seen people do this. But if you're smart, increasing the intensity and doing less can actually be quite phenomenal. So we'll use the example of like stopping your sets short of failure, let's say two or three sets versus going to failure. In my experience and some studies will show some of this. It's about one third the volume when you go to failure to get the same kind of results. Okay. So if you were doing nine sets, you would be doing two sets. But instead of stopping two reps short of failure, you go to failure.  So increase the intensity is one way. That's one variable you can tweak. So you bring the other ones down, increase the intensity volume and or, or, you know, intensity meter. And that can offset quite a bit the reduced volume. Well, there's there's also people again, this is perfect follow up to the original one because it's right with the advice I gave for the change in the face. This also was a way of increasing intensity without necessarily adding more reps and more low. You know, it was, I was sweating. It was an intense workout because I was so unfamiliar. I hadn't done that in a long time. So, and trust me, it was frustrating. There was a part of me that actually wanted to not do it because it was so bad at it because it had been so long since I had done single leg deadlifts and I was, I kept, I'd do a rep or two and then I'd have to do this. I was, I was shaking. My glutes were firing like crazy. I'm sweating by rep or by set two and I'm going like, and I'm frustrated because I wasn't even doing a very heavy weight. Easily, you know, I want to default bail and go do something that I'm good at, but this is a way to increase, not only change the face with a different type of a phase type training that I'm doing. It's also increasing the intensity without adding a bunch of reps or load all time. So there's other ways to make a change. And by the way, my goal is to have big legs so that it's not like I'm going away from my goal. That goal is still to maintain as much muscle on my legs as possible. Yeah, you can even just do this. Like let's say the main reason why you need to reduce your volume is because you need to work out less in terms of time. So that's usually what it is, right? It's a time issue. Well, if you're resting three minutes in between sets, you know, 45 second rest, now you've increased the intensity and you've also cut the time of your workout. You don't even have to cut it. But because you're resting less between sets, you've increased the intensity as a result. Short punchy workouts. I remember when that hit study came out, then this was like everybody just jumped on it and that's all they did and promoted forever. But yeah, there's lots of different ways to do that. So yeah, you cut the rest. You can just like hold more isometric poses with weights without weights and just really work on, you know, intensifying and tensing up your muscles. Now this next one is my favorite one. This is the one that I tend whenever I need to do this. And that is to eliminate quote less worthy exercises. Okay. So what are the less worthy exercises? Well, these are exercises that are not dead lifts, squats, presses, both overhead and horizontal presses, rows, pull-ups, dips, like those big, you know, lunges, those big kind of gross motor movements. Those are the worthy exercises. All the other stuff is less worthy. Now there's value in all of them, but they're not as valuable as the ones that I just mentioned. So to give an example of what this would look like, let's say today was a chess day and I was going to do bench press and cable fly and incline fly. Let's say, for example, let's say I was going to do three sets each. So that's nine sets. Well, I would cut off the fly exercises and then I'd add a set to my bench press. So now I'm doing four sets of bench press, but I'm still not doing nine sets. That one extra set of bench press oftentimes makes up for all those other sets of those fly exercises and oftentimes what happens, they get stronger at this really fundamental lift, right? A squat. You can do some squats or deadlifts or overhead presses as well. Yes. Stick with those compound lifts. It's funny. I immediately think of like Wayne and Garth. They're like, we're not worthy. You know, these exercises, but just age yourself. I did. I did. Hopefully they put a clip of that. Yeah, it's it's those those exercises to that just are like single joint typically and you know, and I'm trying to kind of like get a good muscle pump for a very specific muscle to incorporate those exercises that will bring a louder signal to the body. Let's just focus on that for a while. Yeah, you're cutting out the fat. I mean, this is maps 15 to me. This is this is the beauty of that program. And one of the things that I was really fascinated with even running it myself was realizing like, wow, like how I actually made gains, you know, switching from kind of a traditional routine over to math 15. And I think that's why I think what ended up happening what and because there's a lot of single joint exercise that I enjoy and I like. And I was starting to put too much energy and prioritizing those too much that it was starting to take away from the ones that were the bigger bang for your buck a limiting those completely conserved all that extra energy and resources that I was allocating towards those single joint movements put it all into one or two really important big bang for your buck movements. And I got more out of it. And so I can't stress this one enough. I think this is one of the biggest mistakes like young men and women make going to the gym is they get caught up in all the whatever the, you know, most viral tick talk or Instagram person showing creative, you know, they're using machines all weird and saw a kid yesterday in the gym doing the sideways, you know, peck deck thing. And it's just like do and he's on there doing like five sets of that and just like meant one more inclined bench press. Done better than that. Well, we're is going to build your chat.  Then you will for that. I wish somebody would have spit that game to me when I was that young because I was the same kid who did that type of stuff, saw these unique exercises and was always chasing something different or novel versus more effective. And I think that this point speaks to that of like, man, just cut the fat out, get to the get to the things that really move the needle. And even just doing one or two of those movements a day, you'd be surprised how killer of a seek physique you can build just from that. Absolutely. Now the next point you actually mentioned earlier, Adam, which is to keep your protein intake high. You know, it's interesting about this one. So here we're talking about healthy fit people who are working out and then they cut their volume and they want to keep their gains, maybe even progress a little bit. So keep protein high. You know, what's interesting is that there's data on protein intake and people healing from traumatic injury from getting burned, people who are healing from surgery, people who come back from injury. All of them show that a high protein diet accelerates all those. So if you're healing from something like a cut or bruising or burn or injury, keeping protein and take high helps that as well. Now why? Protein is the building block of your tissues, all of your tissues. Your body uses protein to build things up. And now there's a limit to that. It's about, you know, it's close to a gram of protein per pound of body weight for most average weight individuals. So beyond that doesn't make a difference, but if you keep it up at that point and you reduce your volume, even if you went from perfect volume to less perfect volume, that high protein is more likely to preserve your muscle mass than lower protein. So one mistake that a lot of people make, and this is what Adam was talking about, is they'll cut the volume of their training and they'll simultaneously cut their protein intake because people tend to connect protein with strength training. So, well, I'm not working out as much, so I'm not thinking about eating protein as much. Don't do that's a big mistake. You reduce your volume, keep the protein where it was, you're more likely to maintain the gains that you made working out in the first place. I know there's some people that this doesn't really affect. I definitely think there is obviously it's unique to each individual. If you just have a greater propensity to avoid high protein foods and gravitate more towards it. So if you know that, I'm definitely a starchy carb, sugary type of eater. That's how I was my entire life. It took a long time for me to discipline myself to look at a meal and always attack like high protein first. So if you're that person, I think this advice is even more important. I think it's important for everybody for the points that you're making, but I really think it's important if you know that about yourself. If you have the behaviors of snacking on crackers and chips and carbohydrates is what you gravitate towards more than likely when you do that you fill up on those calories, you don't get enough protein. If you're not getting enough protein to even sustain the muscle on your body and you're in addition reducing volume and cutting back training. Oh, you're going to lose muscle. So one of the best ways that you can keep that from happening or at least slow that process down. And there's plenty of research and studies to show this is by keeping that protein and take high. This has been probably one of the biggest differences that I've made as I've gotten older is knowing that hey, even when I'm being inconsistent is to make sure that I'm still targeting that protein so that there's not this huge fall off when I'm being inconsistent with my training. And again, a lot of people have to reiterate this. A lot of people connect their protein and take to the strength training. So let's say you work out and you always have a protein shake after you work out. 50 grams of protein. But now you're working out less. You're now taking 50 grams of protein less a day because you're not working out. So why would I have this protein shake? You got to eat the same amount of protein you're eating before in order to help you keep those gains. Don't drop your protein because you dropped your training and pay attention. You got to pay attention because this is a sneaky one. Like I said, people tend to, especially fitness conscious, people tend to eat more protein when they're working out and less protein when they're not working out. So pay attention to that. Lastly, you can use an advanced technique known as blood flow restrictive training or BFR training on your off days. What's cool about this is on those days you're not at the gym. You know you're training with less volume. You can literally do three sets of a body weight exercise on your limbs, arms and legs with blood flow restrictive type techniques. Super lightweight too. Very, or body weight, right? Yeah, body weight or super light weight. It simulates lifting heavy weight. That's what's so cool about this. So studies on this are exceptional, phenomenal. It's great for rehab, but also great to help you keep muscle. So okay, I'm only working out twice a week right now. Well, on the off days I can do five minutes of BFR on my arms and legs. And there's also this kind of radiant effect on other muscle groups as well. But at least arms and legs. And you're going to, you're going to keep you're more likely to keep muscle by doing that. Well, this is the reason why this is great for recovery. So we've known this in the professional sport world for quite some time now. I believe that's, I think it was hockey players where this became. Were they the first ones? Yeah. Were they the first ones to really apply this and it become popular. Now across the board there's not a professional athlete that rehabs and does not utilize BFR for this reason. And so it's a great way to be able to, you know, stimulate the muscle without loading. I mean, I'm using this for weeks. Oh, because you have your injury, right? Yeah. Because of the injury again, I can't load. So, you know, talking about stability stuff that I'm doing, a lot of multi-planar type things challenging myself that way. And then also BFR have been the things that I've been doing because I can, that's why this topic is really cool right now is because like my number one thought process right now is that I can train the whole rest of my body normal right now except for my legs because of this injury. And what I don't want to happen is I don't want to lose on my legs. And so I'm utilizing everything we're talking about right now. So everything we're talking about right now, I'm having to apply just to my legs because I can't train them the same way that I'm training the rest of my body. And I want to create this complete lopsided thing where my upper body is super jacked and fit and then my legs dwindle away because of this injury. So I'm utilizing these techniques. BFR, I've used it twice in the last week for this exact reason. Yeah, you know, for people who don't know, so BFR, I would use a knee wrap. That's probably the best thing to use. And I would tie it around my upper arm just tight enough to where I could feel like it's building some pressure in my arm. You don't want it so tight that you don't want to cut off circulation. No, you have YouTube videos. But we have videos on it. We'll link them here. But it creates some pressure. And then what I do is I do some curls. Let's say, let's say normally I do curls with 30-pound dumbbells. I'll grab a 10-pound dumbbell. Do some curls. And what it does is it prevents or restricts the venous outflow. So blood will go in and it's not going to come out like it used to. Right. Waste builds up in the muscle.  Intense pump. And it simulates, it simulates lifting heavy weights. It fatigues and burns out your fast-switch muscle fibers as if you were lifting heavy. Except you're not. You're lifting very light and you're using almost no equipment. So that's what makes it so awesome. That's why people love it for rehab because you hurt your knee. I can't squat 30 pounds, but I can squat my body weight here. BFR, your quads and hams don't know the difference. When you've seen lots of products out there like the electric stim and that always comes back into favor and people putting them on their abs trying to think that just by massively getting shocked it's going to maintain or keep their gains muscle wise. This is a way better technique in terms of actually stimulating that muscle response. And we have YouTube videos of us showing how to do it and then we also have a BFR guide where we teach people how to implement it into their routine also. Excellent. So there you have it. If you are going to take some time off or work out less or you're a friend that's going to do so, share this video. Also, if you want some more free information from us go to mindpumpfree.com that's where we have all of our free fitness guides. You can also find all of us on social media. So Justin is on Instagram at Mind Pump. Justin, I'm on Instagram at Mind Pump to Stefano and Adam is on Instagram at Mind Pump Adam.


We've been shut out So he's got the better half for the deal bottom line So like I said, I wanted we want to be able to start winning games It's not about me getting interceptions me getting stats and things like that and we didn't win a ball game It was obviously not enough. So that's kind of my thoughts on that Not at all. I go into every single game and I tell the guys all the time It doesn't matter what the office is doing doesn't matter how many points are scoring if it's six points of this 30 points We have to do our end of the deal and keep trying to play dominant football We had to keep trying to eliminate those big plays things like that to give our office opportunity when a ball game at the end You've been here a while you've seen number eight make a lot of place to win games for the scene Right, is it hard for you to believe you guys are in the spot that you're at now wondering if he's gonna start the next week? Yeah, I mean this whole situation is tough when you're not winning ball games these type of things happen But if it's quarterback decision coach decisions things like that number eight has had this entire team Especially my support since he's since I've been here and since he's been here We let that guy to death and we're gonna always support him no matter what but this is a coach's decision You know the coach is always gonna make decisions as best for the team and Whatever he does and whatever his decision is we're gonna support him We support 17 as well since since he's been here as well So it is what it is at the end of the day on our side of the ball doesn't affect us at all We just have to keep playing football Kevin You guys haven't given up more than 20 points in a game this year yet you're two and four how frustrating is that from a defender's perspective? I mean we've been playing pretty good football, but at the end of the day is I Don't think we're necessarily having a lot of fun because you know we're not Going at the end of the game looking at stats like hey We only gave up this amount of points pointing fingers anything like that man. We're trying to get W's That's the most important stat in everything. We can give up 300 passing yards 100 rush yards or whatever But if we win against we're gonna come here on Monday and feel good no matter what's going on It's always gonna be things to fix on the film We're always gonna need things that we have to keep getting better at but wins is the most important thing We're trying to come out on Sunday. I think it was Kenny yesterday We got to play even better. I mean is that Feasibly possible for a defense only giving up 15 points. It's always possible We can always play better and that's the mentality that we have to have coming in on every single week because like I said When we're not winning ball games, there's no point fingers in this locker room. There's nobody in here is going to say Hey, it's their fault. It's their fault. We're going to look at ourselves and say hey What could we have done on Sunday that can that can be better giving up big plays a big run towards the end of game? Like it's been happening too much So we have to fix those things and like I said really control weak control and not worried by any any outside things Like thought to one of you guys on the defense you maybe as a leader the defense kind of saying hey We got your back. Just do what you do. We got your back. Does that need to be said? Uh, yeah, I mean I think just always having those guys support because at the end of the day Um, they're nice not like they're going out there trying to lose ball games Or they're trying to go out there and not score points or they just tell them That's hey y'all go out there and do what y'all need to do You know I'm saying it's just one of those deals where you know They're just having a tough time, you know putting up points on the board I mean that's bottom line But at the end of the day they're always gonna have our support because towards the end of the game But they would have scored a touchdown We would have had to keep playing good and keep them in the game So like I said, it's just a tough deal right now when you when you're losing games these type of things It's going on So we had to just find a way to the router troops rally everybody together and see if we could turn this thing around It feels from the outside like this team especially this season is at a crossroads. Do you feel that? Uh, I mean it's tough to say like I said, uh, we're not even at the halfway point We're two and four. It's not the spot we wanted to be in But I can kind of point to a team last year that went one and five End up winning like 10 games straight. So it's not like it's not possible to happen. It's not like, you know We're always talking about next year or rebuilding things like that. No, this is still a long season We have to keep doing we're doing we're not going to sit here Like I said the point fingers coaches make a decision on the quarterback things like that but From my perspective and our defensive perspective we had to keep building on what we've been doing in the off season We've been doing this season and just try to keep fighting man. That's bottom line We can't come in here with our heads down and things like that that's not going to help anything We have to come in here and just keep fighting keep fighting And we'll see what happens. Uh, we'll just see what happens this week I mean, honestly, it's not even really about the charges. It's about the Titans It's about what we can do to get better and uh, that's all we're going to do at this point Do you have the culture to weather this storm for sure? I think we have the right guys in this locker room Like I said, it might not be things that might not be looking good in the wind column right now But we have a lot of great guys in this locker room a lot of leaders In every single room. So like I said, when when things aren't going good, that's what you find out about the coaches So we'll definitely find out about that real soon


He's got great length, uses his hands really well, keeps blockers off of them. The motor is what's set out the most. Running to the football, the toughness, getting off blocks, fighting to get to the ball, and that excites you when you watch them. Yeah, I think immediately the size sticks out the length. The second thing is really just the play demeanor and the effort that he plays with. We're talking about a great person. We're talking about some of the loves football that's passionate for it. It's a hard worker. Really just fits the ethos of what we're trying to build from a football character standpoint, a personal character standpoint, where we're going to get in the community. He'll fit right into that room simply because he fits in with the guys that we have on one of those lines of loving it, going to work every day, and the consistency of the person and the personality and what you're getting every day is something that really excites you. The number one way to limit the league is with power. And he has power. So we're getting a guy that, you know, he does a lot of good things. You know, there's some other things we're going to develop and give him a change-up pitch.  It's a really good combination. We're excited about the pick.


Along with the many other currently unexplained feats of engineering present within the ancient ruins of Baalbeck's temples is undoubtedly the variety of ancient stones that were somehow incorporated into the structures. Although modern academia and indeed its supporters, who are all seemingly suffering with selective research syndrome, claim that Baalbeck is a Roman ruin, we feel, as mentioned, the sheer size of the ancient megaliths that were installed masterfully into its construction are obviously far too large for our Roman ancestors to have transported from distant quarries and who have installed into the structure. We are more than open to this proposition that they were indeed installed and built by Romans if we can be provided with one single logical explanation as to how this was done. But as of yet, this remains elusive absent any academic explanation as to the site. As mentioned, the astonishing array of ancient stones is also an area that is rarely covered by individuals attempting to convey an air of all knowing to the masses, as these features are, just like the enormous megaliths present at the site, currently unexplainable. Specifically, it's the pink granite columns. The reason for our focus on these particular stones is the fact that this pink granite is only available at one known ancient quarry, that being the famous quarry of Aswan, located within modern-day Egypt, an astonishing 1,500 kilometers away. Some of these stones, weighing in at more than 10 metric tons, this achievement, we feel, is clear indication of the fact that the builders of these ancient sites were far more capable than that of our more recent Roman ancestors. For example, as previously covered on our channel, Henri Léard brought two lemmasous weighing in at a similar size around 10 tons to London. This task took over 18 months of arduous suffering for hundreds of our modern ancestors, placed a mere century ago to complete. It included several near-disasters, and included loading them onto wheeled carts, complex systems of modern polis and levers operated by dozens of men, the utilization of over 300 men in total, a barge and a custom-built ramp to haul them up the steps and into the museum. How these same curators, historians and academics alike can continue to claim that our Roman ancestors completed such tasks, along with the placement of such enormous stone megaliths, is to us absurd. Was the unfinished obelisk found within Aswan the work of the same civilization? We feel that these pink granite columns could, in all possibility, be a link that connects these two ancient sites, and in particular, the Great Pyramids. Is Balback, with its enormous granite megaliths, built by the same people as the Great Pyramids? Is the giant megalithic exoskeleton of the Great Pyramids, which we have already exposed, built with the same techniques as Balback? We find the evidence to suggest such, highly compelling. Jordan, a precious area of our planet with a number of jewels, still surviving from what we claim as a lost antiquity, Balback. With megaliths, which, if not in perfect placements, would simply be unimaginable, as the ancient objects used to create these enormous temple complexes, littered with numerous blocks estimated at well over 1,000 tons in size. It is a site whose explanation for construction is, predictably, avoided by modern archaeology. Although once dismissed by academics as immovable, the stone of the pregnant woman, for example, has since, due to more modern digging, been proven to, in fact, be merely a block part of another temple, which is now still mostly buried under millennia of strata. Another incredible find, and one that pushes the sizes of what these ancient civilizations were capable of, is an enormous stone upart, known as the colossal hand of Hercules. Excavated in Amman, and due to the find's proximity to what is now known as the temple of Hercules, it is now thought to have been a hand of a gargantuan marble statue of Hercules himself. However, regardless of identity, when one begins to estimate the past size of the statue in relation to the hand, the statue itself would have been many, many thousands of tons in weight, undoubtedly towering into the sky. There exist many legends of statues, built in many other parts of the world, some in Docklands, some in capital ancient cities, some, Topol, such as the obelisk of Aksum, even over the thousand tons in weightmark, and many unfinished, yet this statue would have dwarfed all in size. And the fact that it was found in Jordan, a boiling pot for unexplained antiquity. A simply gigantic stone megalithic site, its discoveries made all the more intriguing, and we feel, can be legitimately used to argue, or rather push, the capability of this lost civilization's capabilities of moving ancient stones even more advanced and astonishing in capability. Unfortunately, we feel due to the sheer age of the statue and the fact that it lived through a catastrophe of global proportions, only this fragment of hand and a portion of the elbow exists, subsequently found at the site. And reiterating the sheer size of other artifacts at the site, again gives credence to the past existence of a complete statue, and regardless of whether it was indeed once of the mythological character Hercules. We find the hand, and indeed its possible origins, as highly compelling. There are many astonishing ancient structures located within India, arguably some of the most intricately detailed structures to be found anywhere on Earth. We have, in the past, covered a number of these structures, not only due to the astonishing detail displayed upon their stonework, but also many other compelling enigmatic details that to this day remain unexplained. A personal recommendation for an alternative archaeological researcher of Indian ruins is Praveen Mohan over at phenomenal travel videos. Yet, due to the countless ancient anomalies that can be found within India, we rarely step on each other's proverbial feet. For example, during my own personal research, I have not only found that many of the hillside temples seemingly hewn from the bedrock of Earth would, even to this day, be incredibly difficult to replicate if not impossible. Some of the most astonishing, not only attached to religious belief and historical rumor to a mountain in the Himalayas, a factor we have also previously covered, with my personal observations, regardless of the fact that many locals pertain to it being an ancient pyramid, discovered noticeable evidence of the entire base of the mountain, once having been hewn into an artificial crescent. What also remains unclear is if the entire mountain is a man-made pyramid, disguised by the erosion of many millennia. The research team claimed, quote, the stratum is horizontal with the layers of stone slightly varying in color. The dividing line show up clear and distinct, which gives the entire mountain the facade of having been built by giant hands of huge blocks of reddish stone. Let the stone quarried out to create the astonishing temples and accepted artistic masterpiece, just like Yongyu Cave in China have never been found. Additionally, during my own pursuit for clues as to how and indeed who could have created such temples, I have identified signature tool marks in several areas that match that of many other ancient ruins, indeed such as Yangshan Quarry also in China. Having strong evidence that whoever was responsible for these ruins may have indeed been the same civilization, or as our Atlantean videos have postulated, were commanded to be constructed by a dominant civilization, sharing such technologies with the native populations, employing them to create such wonders, thus this would also explain the matching signatures of advanced stone cutting tool marks found on different continents. Take our research into the variation into ancient stone clamps, a method that was undeniably shared throughout the globe, yet the methods of creating such clamps and the resulting metallurgy varies from continent to continent. As we have previously stated on many occasions, whoever was responsible for these incredible ancient sites seemingly vanished at some point within antiquity, leaving many ancient quarries and temples unfinished. One of the temples that we used to link the tool marks with other sites around the world, Vetevan Coil. One of the precious, abandoned sites that like so many other ancient advance ruins that were being built around the world, vitally shows the rough stone cutting signatures left by an advanced machinery that was once responsible for their initial cutting, this before the refinement of such structures carvings. With many other sites in India that, due to their geographical positioning and thus protection from erosion, still possesses these same signature tool marks. However, the purpose of today's video is probably one of the most peculiar anomalies in India and could be perceived by some as one of the most compelling pieces of evidence of advanced ancient machinery having once been responsible for these ancient structures. One is the Tanjore Brihadiswarar Temple, which was supposedly constructed by the Cholas. However, the temple possesses a characteristic which was not only out of the capabilities of the Cholas dynasty, but to me is compelling proof of a pre-Diluvian civilization having been responsible for its construction. As atop the temple, at a height of 216 feet above ground level, is a solid lump of granite carved with perfection yet has been realized at an astonishing weight of 80 tons. To put that in perspective, according to academia, an ancient culture with no advanced technologies, especially lifting technologies, a dynasty well-studied and explored by modern academia, the heartland of the Cholas was the fertile valley of the Kaveri River. Although their power was considerable and was probably complimented by such claims of astonishing feats of architecture, regardless, the question remains, how did this civilization raise such an enormous stone? It seems to us that such claims were merely made to impress their enemies and allies, and the fact that academia is severely lacking any explanation as to how such a feat was accomplished strongly supports my suspicion that the temple is in fact an anti-Diluvian ruin, and as such highly compelling. If you enjoy our content, if you think our battle worthy, please help us to continue our voyage of discovery in unraveling the mysteries of history. Links to donate can be found within the description. 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Big win for Stevens in the day 95-44 over Gallaudet, Glenn Clark looking like a particularly short man as I'm standing next to Devon Jones and Nate Arrington. Devon I'll start with you obviously great day 14 points in that first half. Did you wake up this morning just kind of like knowing today might be your day? Yeah you know we had I had a great two two days of straight practices um you know I feel like the team definitely helped me in terms of getting my confidence up and just coming in very prepared to you know just have a big game.  Sometimes but uh my teammates do a great job of giving me the ball so I can't complain. I mean obviously it's working out so far so good five straight wins for this team as you head into conference play. Devon what what's different about this team this year why are you guys clicking so well on this non-conference portion of the schedule? I just think the chemistry is a whole lot better where we're definitely coming together not only on the court but off the court we're getting familiarized with each other a lot more and better practices are a lot better more competitive and we're pushing each other each and each and every day and you know for us it all starts with the preparation and I think our preparation has just been outstanding.  Yeah that just makes us all the better in practice we're competing so our practices are actually harder than the games so that's what makes it so easy in the games. It's remarkable it's obviously it's paying off big time right now all right I'll give it to both of you who do we need to give a shout out it's holiday weekend obviously I'm sure you weren't able to get to spend all the time that you would want to who do you need to say hello to who do you need a shout out to start with you Devon. Just family that you didn't get to see on Thanksgiving you know always shout out to them you know I know they were watching today you know on a telecast and everything so I just want to give a big shout out to them. And Nate what about you who you need to be a shout out to? Definitely shout out to my dad mom and brother who I got to see briefly so that was good shout out to them. Did you get to enjoy it I mean you guys got to stay in shape right now you got games to play did you get to enjoy any like food it was there one there's maybe one thing on Thursday like I don't care if I got to weigh in tomorrow I got to get something what was it? Definitely Peacock Pie. Oh yeah that's a winner what about you Devon? Definitely my honest famous macaroni and cheese that's a that's a must. That's a winner right there Nate Devon congratulations on a big win best of luck as you get in the conference play this Wednesday all right. Thank you. Thank you. Devon Jones, Nate Arrington, Glenn Clark, gomustangsports.tv


Senator Bernie Sanders put out a tweet that offended some individuals who choose to do propaganda at the behest of American oligarchs. So Bernie wrote, we are in a moment in American history where two guys, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos own more wealth than the bottom 40% of people in this country. That level of greed and inequality is not only immoral, it is unsustainable. Now if you're a reasonable person, I don't think you're going to find anything particularly offensive about that tweet. However billionaire Shill and Elon Dick writer Zachary Sheahan of Clean Technica decided to vocalize his outrage over Bernie Sanders tweet in an article titled attacks on Elon Musk for his wealth are truly ridiculous. And as you can see, he's confused as to why Bernie Sanders would refer to Elon Musk as greedy. I mean, that's a lot of question marks. So he's definitely trying to figure out how anyone could fathom that Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet could be greedy. Bernie argues, greed is just a strange word to use in this case. I've yet to see any sign that Elon Musk is rich because he's greedy. I'm sorry, what?  Or are you just being purposefully obtuse because you're trying to do propaganda for Elon Musk? I don't even know how to respond to that. You haven't seen any evidence that the richest man on the planet is rich because he's greedy? What about, first of all, Elon Musk didn't earn the billions of dollars that he has. His workers produced that wealth and he appropriated the value and the wealth that their labor produced. On top of that, ask yourself why Tesla factory workers are pushed to the brink. Obviously, it's because he wants them to produce more profits than they're already producing. And he's literally shut down efforts by workers to unionize for better working conditions. And he's even fired workers for organizing unions. He also pressured his employees to work in the middle of a pandemic during lockdowns, which of course resulted in hundreds of Tesla factory employees getting infected with COVID-19 because according to Elon Musk, their lives are expendable because profits are more important to him. And on top of that, he also openly supported the US backed coup in Bolivia because the socialist government wouldn't give the United States access to their supply of lithium, which is needed for the batteries and Tesla cars.  But really, this is just about him being an Elon Dick writer. He's just writing this because he wants daddy Elon to notice him and mission accomplished. Daddy Elon noticed you. So congratulations. And Elon responded to Bernie Sanders tweets saying, I am accumulating resources to help make life multi-planetary and extend the light of consciousness to the stars. Oh, OK, so that's why you should be the richest man on the planet. That's the justification because you've unilaterally chosen that right now the human race should be venturing out into the solar system. All right, Bernie Sanders responded to this saying, space travel is an exciting idea. But right now we need to focus on earth and create a progressive tax system so that children don't go hungry. People are not homeless and all Americans have health care. The level of inequality in America is obscene and a threat to our democracy. Yeah, obviously. I think that most reasonable people acknowledge that it is essential that if the human race is to survive, we have to venture out into the stars. We have to colonize other planets. The issue is we can barely sustain life on this planet. We're killing the planet that we live on currently. And you expect human beings to possibly terraform and live on other planets. How about we not kill this planet first? How about we terraform this planet back to its original state before we decided to pollute it before we try to colonize other planets? And furthermore, maybe it's not acceptable that a billionaire decides unilaterally what's the most important thing for the human race. Perhaps our species isn't advanced enough to venture out into the stars yet if we're literally still killing each other over oil, if we're still not feeding the millions of people around the globe who are literally starving to death. How about we focus on that first? No, but Elon Musk says that we have to do this first. While we're killing our planet and while a pandemic ravages the world. I'm saying that we have to focus as a species on colonizing Mars, on venturing out into the universe. That sounds really great, but I'm sorry. I'm a little bit skeptical that we're able to do that if we can't even stop global climate change, if we can't even provide Americans with healthcare. And I'm sorry, forgive me for being a little bit skeptical that this billionaire wants to paint himself as a pioneer who wants to fund these scientific advances and wants to elevate the human race to the next level.  He refuses to vaccinate himself and his children. And yet this is the guy that's going to propel human civilization into the stars. Maybe you just start by trusting basic science. If human beings cannot even tackle a pandemic without overcoming greed and forcing their employees to work when there's a pandemic going on, maybe we're just not advanced enough to colonize space. Maybe we should really focus on saving lives here before rich people create some lifeboat that they move on to after they've thoroughly destroyed this planet. It's just ridiculous that it's even a question that the richest man on the planet would become rich because of how greedy he is. And it's even more outrageous that Elon Musk thinks that this is an adequate justification for the grotesque amount of wealth that he possesses. Absolutely not. Here's the thing in a late stage capitalist society, wealth also equals power.  So I think that this story speaks for itself. Rich people have become absolutely shameless and the shamelessness and brazen behavior of rich people is predictable. But what shouldn't be a thing that we see are so-called journalists doing propaganda and defending them. What is clean technical? I've never even heard of this outlet. It's supposedly focusing on clean technology. But you're just doing CNBC level of propaganda. So how embarrassing if you're a journalist, is this really what you want to do, Zachary Sheahan? You want to do propaganda for billionaires who support coup d'etats so they can get access to another country's resources? Is this really what you want to be doing? I just, I don't understand people. Yeah. Human race can't even fight a pandemic without making it a making fools of themselves. We have people screaming about wearing masks into a grocery store, but yet you think that the human race is able to colonize space that we're even to that point. Please, maybe when we start killing each other and doing war in general, then we can talk about the human race evolving and colonizing space. In the meanwhile, let's try to work on fixing the issues we have here at home first. How about that? I did. Recovery mode. My brain. Recovery mode. My brain.


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Guys, how you doing? This is your boy Rich from Rich TV Live and richtv.io, an ecosystem built by investors, for investors. And today I wanna talk to you about the fact that we are in a bear market. We've really been in a bear market for 14 months. You can clearly look at the charts and see that the stock market's been kind of down or sideways since February of last year. So I'm not really surprised about where we are in the market. Cryptocurrency also in a bear market. A lot of people forget that five days ago, Bitcoin was at 40K and now Bitcoin has been flirting with 30K, so down 25% in five days. So the markets are going down, cryptos are going down. So yesterday I'm getting phone calls all over the place. Rich, you gotta start to short, Rich. You need to start to short, Rich. Well, I don't like to short. Shorting is inherently risky. A very small percentage of the market actually successfully can short and win because if you short something and it goes up, you can lose everything. You can lose more than you have. So shorting is huge, huge, huge risk. So what I would do instead is I would consider using the CBOE volatility index, the VIX. You can short the market by buying the VIX if you think that the market's going to continue to sell off, which it has been really for now close to 15 months. When the market goes back up and has a relief rally like we've had today, that is the time to start thinking about buying the VIX. And in my opinion, we're gonna go through the video. I'm gonna show you the zones that I would consider buying the VIX. Now, when people start saying it's time to short the market, it's probably already too late. So chances are this is not a really good time to short the market. Everything is really down. So it would have been good to short the market when everything was up and then you could have made money on the way down. Now that everything is down, we could definitely go lower. So I'm not saying you can't go lower, but I believe that we're kind of near a bottom. So I would wait for the market to rally, go back up. And if we get the Dow Jones back to 35, 36K Dow, that's where I would be looking to position myself in the VIX expecting that the market's gonna go back down again and you making the money on the way down with the Dow Jones at 36 all the way down to 32. But with the Dow Jones now at 32 and at 52 week lows, how much lower can we go from here? That's really the question that everyone's trying to figure out. So in today's video, I wanna talk to you about how to make money in a red market, how to make money in a down market, how to make money using volatility without shorting because shorting is extremely risky. You can actually buy the VIX and make money in a down market. And let's take a look at this video and explain exactly how we do it. Don't touch that dial. Make sure you subscribe for future updates. And if you like these videos, please smash the like button, comment down below. Let's take a look at the VIX and the chart, shall we? Hey guys, how you doing? This is Rich from Rich TV Live and I've been getting calls nonstop from investors saying, what do we do Rich? The market is crashing. What do we do? How do we make money in this down market? So I wanna make sure that everybody understands that everyone's saying to me, we should be shorting. And I'm like, well, shorting isn't something that's easy. It's also not something that I really like to do. And it's something that very few people are doing.  And typically people buy things at the top and people short things at the bottom because the market is not that easy. And by the time everybody decides that something is high or something's low, it's usually too late. So I wanna talk about the VIX, the volatility index. So one of the reasons why I don't like to short and why I don't short is that shorting is inherently risky. And if you get short squeezed and you short something and it goes up on you, which the market has been up for 13 years before this year. So we've seen a lot of shorters get absolutely annihilated and literally go out of business, especially when we had Memania last year with GameStop and AMC, a lot of shorters literally got short squeezed and got put right out of business. So I don't like to short because it puts a huge amount of risk on your portfolio and your assets. But if you're looking to make money on a down market, one of the best ways to do it is with the VIX. So you can see here with the VIX in June of 2021, it was at $14. Yesterday it hit right around 35. It's sitting right now today because the market is green again having a relief rally. You can see that the VIX today is down 5%. So when the market goes up and strong, the VIX will typically go down. And if the market goes down because the market is weak, the VIX will typically go up. So you can see here, if we actually zoom in to the one month, how it has really jumped here. So this is to me, like when I look at this, I get a little bit concerned because when people are like, oh, short the market, I'm sitting there thinking, the market's already made its move. What do you mean short the market? Like the market's already made its move. Now, not to say the market can't go lower, anything's possible, but I just don't know if that's in the cards because look at this move in the VIX. Like the VIX made this big move up here from 1999 and yesterday it was right around 35. So it's made this big move up. So wasn't that the time to short? Wasn't that the time to buy the VIX when it was at this level? And look at the date, April 22nd, and today is May 10th. So only three weeks ago, it was at $20 and it goes up from $20 to $35 essentially, which is like 75% in three weeks. That was the move. To short now, which is what I was being told yesterday and I didn't agree with it because all the indicators were telling me that the market was heavily oversold. It was too late to short at that point and clearly you can see the market's having a relief rally and had you bought the VIX today or yesterday when it was at its high of 35, you'd be down 6% today. So with investing, timing is everything. So if you wanted to buy the VIX, the way I would do it is I would wait for a day like today when everything is green and that's when I would buy it. Now, because you can see this has clearly made this move up and it's doing just a little pullback here, I don't think this is the time to buy the VIX, but that's just me, right? That's just me. Now I'll take a look at a chart and I'll look at the one year chart and the one year chart tells me a story that this has come down when the market's been hot very aggressively, so you have to be really careful and it's been as down as high as 14. So if you buy this right now, thinking the market's gonna continue to go down, you could take a huge amount of risk because we've seen this go down to 14 and if it goes back to 14, your investment's gonna get crushed. Now, the reason why I like the VIX is that you don't actually have to worry about getting short squeezed because this is a stock. So because this is a stock that you can buy and hold, if it goes down to 14, you can literally hold it and then if the market crashes again and rips back up to 35, you can sell without ever having any concern of being short squeezed and losing your entire account. So that's why I'd rather buy a stock that is, but I don't wanna buy it at these prices. I wanna make that very clear. Where I'd be looking to buy this would be at 20 or less. So if this goes to 20 or less, that's in the zone where I'd be thinking about positioning myself and that's how I would treat this. But this is a stock. You don't have to worry about getting short squeezed. And if you think that the market's going to continue to go down like it has been really for the last 14 months we've been sideways or down. And that's why you see the VIX is high. It's near the top, right? Look at the VIX, the highest it's been was at 39 in January, right? And you can see it's been as high as 37. But for the most part, when it gets to this level, it goes down. So that tells me that the market right now is near a bottom. But the question is, will it continue to go lower? Or does it bounce from here? Today it bounced from here. So that is a really good sign that the market is having a relief rally so far today. And if that continues, that's a good sign to show that the market isn't going to continue to go lower, maybe won't go into a recession. Maybe we won't go into a depression, but we will be able to bounce from here. So I'm not telling anyone to buy the VIX. The reason why I'm making this video and the reason why we want everyone to join us at richtv.aio and richpigsdaily.com is so that we can teach you guys how to have good investing strategies and how to make money in every single market. And there is opportunities in every market. And this is a tool that you can use to really arm yourself. And you can go to richtv.aio, join our trading community and we've got chat rooms that we are building and we want you to go into those rooms and talk with other members about these trade ideas and give your opinions about what you think is going to happen in the market so that we can, as a community and the ecosystem, come up to a good decision. But the reason why I like this is if the market does continue to go down, if you believe the market will continue to be going down, you can buy the VIX and you can make money on a down market. This is a way to hedge your bets. This is a way to make money in the down market. This is a way to make money where there is nowhere to make money. Like yesterday was a 90% day where like 90% of stocks were down yesterday and cryptocurrencies. It was considered a 90% day. One of the five worst days in the history of the stock market. And I felt like we'd have a relief rally today and we did. So it's really good sign to see that. Now will that continue? I'm not sure. It's going to be a really long summer. So I wanted to arm everyone with the tool that can make the money in a red market. And I think that the VIX is a great tool. It had a huge day yesterday when the market was deep red. The VIX was at 15% yesterday. Now the market is having a relief rally today. The market is deep green and the VIX is down 6%. So this is a tool that you can use in a red market. Obviously the market is green today. You can see it's down 6% and it looks like it's going to continue to go down on the daily because it looks as though we're having a very strong relief rally today. So love to know your opinion on this. Do you own the VIX? Do you buy the VIX? Do you trade the VIX? This has been actually one of the better trades all year. And if we go to let's say the six month you can clearly see how it's made these huge moves up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down because we've been in a very choppy market. We've been in a very choppy market for about 14, 15 months now where the market literally just goes up and then it comes down and then it goes up and then it comes down. So if you're going to short you want to really short when the market is up and the market is not really up today. This is just a relief rally. I wouldn't be thinking that this is the sign that you should be buying up. I think that we are near a bottom. You can see that on the chart. So we're near a bottom. So things could definitely bounce from here and they are today. However, we're in May and typically the summertime is the slowest time for the stock market. So June, July, August, I think the next 120 days are going to be really tough. I think that we will have a rally between September and December. We typically always do. It would be very historic if we didn't but if history repeats itself these next three and a half to four months May, June, July and August are going to be really choppy. Liquidity will probably dry up and slow down and there's going to be a lot of volatility and I just don't see what is going to be the momentum for the market. So that's why I believe if you're looking to make money on a down market, the VIX is a great tool. I think everyone should consider using it. I just think right now it's too high. So I wouldn't buy it now. But if it gets to that $20 mark or lower which would probably mean that the Dow Jones is at like 34, 35, 36K down. We had a big rally. That's when I would buy the VIX when everything goes back up. And then when everything goes down you're going to be making money on the VIX going up. But I would be looking at getting it at around $20 or less. If it goes down to that zone that would be my signal that, hey, maybe the market's going to go down again because we're in this tough environment, high inflation. The Fed is going to be increasing interest rates in Canada and the United States. So that puts a lot of pressure on the markets. And you can see the market is having this really choppy movement. And everyone's asking me, should we be shorting? And I don't like to short but if I'm going to make money on the market going down I will buy the VIX. I'm just not buying it right now because I feel like it's too high. And I think that we need to see the VIX come down to 20 or less. And then I would consider buying it. And if I buy it, I will let you guys know. Thank you guys for watching. If you're not winning, probably not watching. We bring you the winners, we bring you the analysis and we bring it to you first. What do you think about the VIX? Is this something you're planning on using? Is this a tool that you're going to use against a down market? Love to know, comment on the video. And we will create a chat room for the VIX after this video as well that we will post on richtv.io. Love to have you join that chat room, talk about it and let us know if you're using this tool if you're a boy rich or rich to be live and richpigsdaily.com and richtv.io and I'm out.