Hey everybody, I'm Lance Coyke. Today we're discussing how to write your own workouts. We've already talked about the five basic training principles. Definitely review those if you need to. And last, we're starting to talk about the pieces that are required, the puzzle pieces to build the puzzle that is the workout. And we talked about training volume last time, that is doing more reps throughout a workout. Today, I want to discuss maybe the most talked about, maybe the most important piece of your program, and that is the intensity. So best way to measure your intensity is, in my mind at least, the rating of perceived exertion. So this is actually an acronym that people use, RPE, Rating of Perceived Exertion. What this is, is it's saying, this is how hard this set was. So I like to just use a 10-point scale, and I say, on a scale from one to 10, 10 being a really, really hard, how hard was that? And so if I'm training with a really high intensity, then I am going to be pushing myself towards those RPEs of 10 throughout any given rep range. So let's say I am controlling this program. I'm saying I'm going to do three reps every set, no matter what. And I'm going to gradually ramp my weights up so that I get to a weight that's really, really challenging, so that I get to an RPE of 10. And so I might work up, and I might do, I'm going to do eight sets. My first six sets are probably going to be six, seven, maybe eight RPE, if you're really good, and you're really tuned into what your body can do. You can get those to like nines or tens and still be able to recover and do your next set next time. But that's something you want to kind of look into. What else plays into intensity? So the speed at which you move plays into intensity. So if I take a weight that isn't the most weight that I can do, but I move it faster than I normally would if I'm going to do it for that many reps, or a heavier weight for that many reps, then I can still stress my nervous system maximally. And so a high intensity in this case, even though the weight is low, we might say the load is low, my intensity can still be high because I'm recruiting so much of my nervous system. Now the adaptation here is different. I'm not getting strength out of this. I'm getting something that looks a little bit more like power, a little bit more like speed, right? If I'm not using any weight, let's use three examples. So a heavy one rep squat, that is a strength thing. A kind of heavy four rep squat, that is still a strength thing, but if I move it really quickly, it becomes a strength power thing, strength dash power. That's kind of how we talk about things, or a speed dash strength, or I think that one would be like a strength dash speed. It's really confusing. The principle is I'm getting more towards power. I'm getting more towards a time demand and speed where I'm measuring how fast I go. And then if I just, instead of doing a heavy squat, what if I just do a body weight jump? Well, that is probably more of a power output kind of thing. I'm not really loading anything up, and I'm just trying to move as quickly as I can until my feet leave the ground. When I can't put any more force into the ground to jump any higher, I've kind of already determined how high I'm gonna go. Now, let's look at it another way. Let's say I have a newly through puberty female athlete who is, she's got this body that is now bigger, but she doesn't have the nervous system to go with it. She's really uncoordinated and doesn't really have the strength to support things. Now, if I do a body weight jump with her, that might be more of a strength, speed kind of thing because she has this heavy body that her body is not, her muscles and her joints and her nervous system are not really conditioned to working with. So for her, something of like a power training kind of implement might require unweighting her like throwing a band underneath her or putting on a little harness that pulls her up so that she's not quite as heavy as before. And that will allow her to move fast enough to actually train those power zones instead of strength, slow, slow speed kind of stuff, not fast speed kind of stuff. Hopefully those examples don't confuse you. This is a really complicated topic. One last thing, the other way to look at it is a percentage of your one rep max. So if you can do your best weight for 400 pounds, let's say a 400 pound squat, then I can use a percentage of that maximal weight to kind of determine where I want the rest of this to fall into place. A good example is Jim Wendler's 531 program for strength. Oh, sorry. Jim Wendler's 531 program for strength programs a percentage of your one rep max. So you test that one rep max and then you do three sets of five, three sets of three and then a set of five, three, one on weeks one, two and three. It's very simple and it's totally programmed for you.  And that is a really good way to tailor the intensity of this. So on your three by five week, your percentage of one rep max, the weight that you're using is lower. And then for the three by three, it jumps up a little bit and then for the five, three, one, it gradually jumps up as well. And that is a more stimulating, more challenging workout whereas the other two allow you to practice your technique. They still stress your system a little bit, but not so much that it's difficult to recover from. So your five by five week or your three by five week helps you recover from your five, three, one week. Just there's so many ways to skin this cat which is probably an offensive metaphor. But very, very important. Again, try to tap into your artistic side and do some experiments and see how your body responds to different training intensities.


Popular music doesn't always have to follow pop format. You know popular music is a popular person is what you make Right, though. It's just like what's up everybody once again? It's brand-man shining today Of course we're going over seven success tips from the boy black and you don't know He's relatively new to the scene as far as being hot, but I'm from Atlanta So I've known about for a while to do some amazing and he's had quite a journey a lot of hardships As far as making that go happen like a lot of artists do so check out the mindset that got him through it Was that like I guess strategic just to keep it. I guess under like 15 tracks Yeah, I mean and the the goal for me was to basically summarize my last five years But not make you feel like you listen to five years of music I wanted to give people like a general understanding of everything that I went through you know within detail descriptions of it So it wasn't just like you know surface level and I wanted it to be smooth and quick Just like you know, okay I learned about him in that 47 minutes and it ain't to say like I'm exclusive or anything like that But I think I just stick to my story like I stick to everything I've been through and I just make sure I tell that Yeah, but see what I say I think you could call yourself exclusive when it comes to that because at the end of the day it takes I think a strong artist period to Accept who they are as a person inspire the title free black right because it was a bad Yeah, I mean it just wasn't it wasn't the right fit You know like they had their vision and their vision was kind of centered around the formula that worked for him And my whole argument was it's not gonna work for me Like you know, and I'm not like I actually tried it obviously because I'm open to writing and recording and trying different stuff But yeah, it just got to the point where I was like this is not for me like and y'all can't make it I was I was open to like whatever sounds you bring in the studio. Yeah, let's try them out Yeah, you never know what you have to try it. Yeah, you don't like it Yes, like you never know what you can get because I've made some songs that might have that tempo that I'd be like You know, this would be great for somebody else. Mm-hmm. So I Kind of feel like that's one of the best intros that dropped last year Just for the simple fact that it has so much truth in it All right And that song in general was me telling the truth a lot of people had no idea that I had a baby on the way and a lot Of people who know me still have no idea because they listened to that song and they heard the line And they thought I was just maybe trying to rhyme instead of actually Letting you in on one of the biggest, you know, things I've been keeping from everybody Just kind of studying the game studying social media like I was I was around for a Lot of the stuff that's happened in the last four or five years on the internet So I got to see people come and go like I I learned a lot, you know, just from watching so in that You know though that little gap of what was that three years. Yeah, it was just a lot of stuff I got to like process and practice and take in and to the point where when we did drop the first two songs It wasn't you know, I didn't fall on deaf ears.  You want to be great but sleeping until the next day Why you do that unless you had a long night if you waking up past 11 o'clock You you got some you need this you need to get up a little bit early because I'm up at like 6 37 ready to go I've seen a lot of industry stuff to kind of know what comes with being with labels make your labels and You're not gonna get around certain things like they're always gonna be time for you bump heads and Things aren't always gonna be the way you want them to be but you know when you got leverage It's a little bit different and when you when you have proof and you have numbers then the conversation opens up for different things So like I didn't the whole time I made this project like I only met a couple of them and they will come Yeah, they will come and see you'll be like yo this is so-and-so from ready right from radio and I'll be like yeah Yeah, yeah, I'm working right now. So like I didn't have to talk to anybody. I just gave them my track list I gave them, you know my songs my cover art my videos and That was it. All right. I hope that was helpful Black is really in my being gonna be one of the hugest acts we've seen in a long time Closer to the weekend level not just another hot artist But anyway, if you think I should do somebody else comment in that section below other than that, you know what to do hit that subscribe button


To be honest, I didn't really know what the expectations were going to be coming into this. We were told that it was an educator tour that had a special forces showcase. So it just kind of came down with the impression of it was an educator representing the state of Maine coming down to try to learn what the Army has to offer with a twist to kind of special forces on it. I think my favorite part of today was speaking and actually interacting with special forces operators. You know, I think as a kid growing up or as a professional in the adult world, you think of Army soldiers and special forces operators as kind of, you know, cold and fierce and what they do. You know, today was a really good example of just how personable and how professional they are. I think the first thing I've remarked to my students is understanding that knowledge is power. And when you know more, you should do more, right? I think a lot of kids nowadays don't really understand the opportunity that the Army offers them. I think the first thing was, you know, my eyes were open in the last day or two about the different opportunities, the different pathways, you know, specifically special forces, but just in general, you know, what the Army actually has to offer them. The purpose of our educator tour is to get educators from the New England area, bring them to a major military installation. And show them what the Army is really about. How can we educate the educators and showing them what the Army is all about? So once a year I provided tour for these educators to come out to a major military installation. This year we happen to be invited to come see the Special Operations Command and learn all about special ops. Yeah, I think, you know, when they had the crisis situation that occurred during the KPEC, initially my gut instinct was just, how can I help? You know, and there was a split second where I guess I didn't actually realize that, I didn't really know what happened at first, right? I didn't even really know if it was part of the operation or not, realizing that, you know, we're in an environment where something could go wrong. So I think instinctively I just kind of looked in the direction and said, you know, like how can I help? You know, and then realized that we're selected to partake in this. And this is one of those things that you get into it, what you put into it. So I figured, you know, split second decision, I'm here. This is an opportunity to help. It's an opportunity to learn not only to grow myself, but to bring things back. So I just wanted to be involved in any way possible.


Well we're a week away from Christmas and as time winds down on your holiday shopping there's a group raising funds for an annual tradition in Brainard by holding a gift wrapping competition between local celebrities. Clayton Castle has that story. The holidays are upon us which means the shopping malls are packed with shoppers getting in the holiday spirit. At the Westgate Mall in Brainard the Brainard community action has once again set up shop to help with gift wrapping with a little twist this year. This year I thought it would be kind of fun to put a little bit of a twist on it and I invited some local celebrities in to compete against each other to raise funds against each other so that each celebrity is trying to raise the most funds. One of the celebrities participating is Central Lakes College president Harris Charlier who came out to get back to the organization that does so much for the community. Well it's really been fun out here and community action does so much for our community. They enable so much tremendous work here to help people. The competition features a wide variety of celebrities and gift wrapping expertise. We do have a wide variety of gifted rappers that we've invited down here. I invited roughly 80 people and I completely understand that people have crazy busy schedules this time of year. We were lucky enough to receive 22 local celebrities who are interested in helping us wrap gifts. While admitting that gift wrapping is not her forte President Charlier says she has learned a lot about the skill and is ready to tackle her own holiday gift wrapping. I have to admit this is not a skill set that I am comfortable with. In fact I'm a bit challenged when it comes to gift wrapping but you know Central Lakes College is all about learning and education and I've had quite a gift wrapping education today. In the end there's more to her presence than just the competition. It's also about giving back. I encourage everybody to come down and support this great group. They'll be here all the way through Christmas Eve. Reporting in Brainerd Clayton Castle Lakeland News. Proceeds from the Celebrity Gift Wrapping Challenge will go towards the annual Fourth of July fireworks celebration in Brainerd. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Actually, there was a forensic study on hot dogs published earlier this year in the Annals of Diagnostic Pathology to answer the age-old question, what is really in them? It was like a CSI episode. They found bone, blood vessels, nerves, cartilage, skin, but the kicker was that the amount of actual meat in a hot dog was less than 10%. Let's look at hot dogs. Same serving size, but the Bessie's over here has almost 5 times more calories, 150 times more fat, infinitely more saturated fat, and cholesterol. How did the meat industry respond to this devastating new cancer report? Well, the beef industry spin was that the report was bad advice, and that another scientific study found no link between meat and cancer, a study that was, in their words, independent, comprehensive. How the World Cancer Research Fund report could come to a different conclusion is perplexing, they wrote. Well, I found the independent, comprehensive study to which the beef industry is referring, and wasn't perplexed anymore. I was on to this study like brown on rice. Here are the so-called facts. Let's compare. The WCRF report looked at 7,000 studies, there's looked at 500. This report has 537 pages, this one has four. This report was written by nine independent teams of scientists, hundreds of peer reviewers, and 21 of the top cancer researchers in the world. This one was written by these two guys. You can't see, but the picture cuts off their cowboy hats. Time spent to produce, this one took more than five years. This one literally just says, last summer. And finally, the report that found a link between meat and cancer was overseen by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and funded by a leading cancer charity. This other one was overseen by a scientist's for-hire for-profit firm that has come out with similar reports downplaying the risks of pesticides— asbestos and, of course, cigarette smoke. This independent study, bought and paid for by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. But if you think that takes gall, wait until you see what the pork industry did. Smithfield, the largest pork producer in the world, launched the Deli for the Cure campaign, donating five cents to early detection for every pound sold of exactly the type of meat the WC-RF report says causes the most cancer. I guess it's the least they can do if they're going to give us cancer early. Might as well help detect it early for us, too.


Next question is from Braden Samay. How do I get bigger forearms? Oh yeah, good old forearms. Milk cows. Milk cows, that's what you did, right, for a long time.  Rapid squeezing, yeah. I saw you on Instagram. Yeah, I was throwing little jabs at you over there.  I love it. I don't even know. Yeah, so forearms are like any other muscle, so you wanna train them in order to build them. You have to train them through a full range of motion, different rep ranges. Some of the best forearm exercises, a lot of people are just not familiar with. Like one of my favorite forearm exercise, especially for the top of the forearm, this kind of meaty, you know, brachioradialis muscle here on the top of the elbow, reverse curls with the thumb under the bar, a tight grip with an easy curl bar. Like practice those. At one point, I prioritized forearm training. This had more to do with grappling than to do with it. Go light. At first. If you haven't done those, you know, for a long time. Yeah, it'd been years since I did that. I remember, oh my God. You just did that to the wrong guy, right? Yeah, start easy because this is gonna be a tough one.  And to be honest, the most success I've had with developing my forearms, actually, believe it or not, was not really focusing on developing my forearms. It was doing heavy deadlifts and farmer carries. Those are all great exercises. Yeah, but they were not, I wasn't doing them because I was like, I wanna build my forearm, so I'm gonna do farmer walks. They just had to keep up with your back. They had to keep up. I mean, when I was progressing my deadlift from, you know, originally like 200 and something pounds to getting all the way up to 550, boy did my forearms grow and the strength of them, the size of them, and then also things like farmer carries. As you progress that weight, if you could hold on and carry four or 500 plus pounds across the gym while you're holding on to a bar, I promise you those forearms will grow. No wrist straps. Yeah, you're bringing up a good point. A lot of times the reason why people's forearms are lagging isn't because they're not training the forearms, it's because they're protecting their forearms from doing a lot of work by wearing, you know, wrist straps. That's a big one. Like, you know, I've trained clients who had long histories of working out and I would tell them we're gonna put the wrist straps away and they were blown away by how much their forearms responded. It's like, well, yeah, every back exercise you do, your hands have to keep up and because you're wearing this thing that holds on to the bar for you or the dumbbell for you, your forearms are not required. It kind of reminds me of the last question we just talked about with developing your glutes. You know, you can do these forearm exercises where you really feel it in your forearms but if you end up doing all these little, you know, wrist curls with 10 pounds, I mean, you can do wrist curls with 10 pounds every day for your forearms but I guarantee you if you progress your deadlift and you get a hundred pound heavier deadlift that will develop your forearms more than that direct hit. Yeah, the mass builders for the forearms are heavy deadlifts, farmer walks, you know, gripping and pulling heavy things. Then you have your kind of like your exercises that you can pump the muscle, you can add more volume without tons of damage which include wrist curls either where you're going in the reverse or in the front, I like them behind the back. That's an exercise I'll do sometimes but reverse curls, that's a great one. I got to the point where I was able to reverse curl as much as I could, you know, supinated curl. I really did a number on my forearms so don't wear wrist wraps and add a few exercises at the end of your workout to your forearms and they will respond, you know, just like any other muscle. And here's the thing about forearms, we instinctively, this is funny too when they do these polls, the last women like what body parts on men do you find the most attractive? Hands and forearms is always up there.  So you actually don't have tons of strength.  It's because of their hands and their forearms. And again, we, you know, we're primates. Our hands, although they're very, you know we can move small things with small details and we're very, very intricate with our movement. Still, again, we evolve from primates. We should have hands that can support any weight that our body can lift. And the fact that we constantly avoid that that's one of the main reasons why people's forearms lag.


Hi everybody, Joe for jaspeaskacebrakes.com with 2019 Panini National Treasures Football. Four bucks, pick your team number 29 from jaspeaskacebrakes.com. Big thanks to all of these folks for getting into it. Thanks, a lot of number blocks as you can see. Right with that last bot mojo. So there are three different number blocks. There was just one for the Giants. There was a 14 team which ended up turning into a 13 team one. You can see that video in a different video right there. And then there was the one with the Arizona Cardinals. So we're going to show you the results of that right now. Alright, so 13, there was a team that we added that we didn't add. Then we gave away money instead. Alright, so that's the number block for those sets of teams right over here. And there was a one for those teams right here. Now this one has a hit list promo. So we'll keep track of people who went hit list and then we'll randomize your names. $50 a break credit. We'll go to somebody. And then there was one just for the Giants right there. Good luck. Got that one right there. I guess we'll set this one next to me right over here. Good luck. It's kind of heavy. Felt a little heavy. Full of hits maybe. Good luck, ladies and gentlemen. Here we go. Box number one. NT football. I think there's still fire being pulled from these cases, right? So let's hope this one follows, continues that trend. Bird on the bottom there. Okay. Blank card to hide the hits. And we're going to lead off with Frank Gore. $50 out of $99. Buffalo! Porterhouse steak. With that. Tyler Boyd to $50. Terrell Davis, $12 out of $99. Broncos are a number block team that goes to Denver too. It's on this side, Mark Sheridan with Denver too. Kenny G, Lions. That is 81 out of $99. Lions picked up by Matt Medlin. Picked up straight up. We got Devin Singletary, $68 out of $99. Buffalo! Goes to Darren Porterhouse steak. $14 out of $26. Miles Sanders for the Eagles. Jonathan. Jonathan T with the Eagles. Jonathan Tori. Tori Pines. $21 out of $25. We've got Meekle Harbin Jr. NFL gear, triple relic and autograph. For the champs, that goes to the X-Line. And the Chiefs. $15 out of $25. Patriots, Nikhil Harry. Pats are part of that big group. $15 out of $25. Patriots, $5. We'll go to Elvis Ekman. There you go, Elvis. In the building. Ricky Williams, Saints Edition. $3 out of $49. Saints are also part of that big group. Saints III is Daniel Posey. There you go, Daniel. And there it is. I thought I saw a bird on the back of the card. $61 out of $99. And Tyler Murray. Three-color patch. On-card autograph. Rookie patch auto. Now the Cardinals were not picked up straight up. That is a number block team. So it will go to Arizona 1. Travis Donahue. Nice. It's a nice RPA right there. So far so good. All right. Box number two. All right, good luck everybody. Here's your question. Paul Horning to $75. That goes to Charles and the Packers. We've got Devin McCority for the Pats. Just $25. $13 out of $25. Patriots III is going to be for Daniel. Juju Smith Schuster to $99. Steelers, Fred. Ladanian Tomlinson, $43 out of $49. Chargers, that's going to go to a big group over there. Chargers III. Another one for Daniel Posey. Here's Damien Harris. $59 out of $99. Patriots IX is going to be to say. Tyler Murray again. $21 out of $99. Another one for Travis in the number one. Here's Tristan Hill. $94 out of $99. Dallas IV is Chris Erickson. Triple Relican Autograph, Ryan Finley. $26 out of $99. Bangles VI is Regimel. Bangles VI. Treasured Moments, Kurt Warner Warner. Delivers with long TD pass. $9 out of $10 for the Rams. Rams IX to say. Here's the nine right there. Rams IX. Here is Jersey Auto Gardner Minshew. Nice. $66 out of $99. The Porterhouse steak with the Jags straight up. Nice one, Darren. Now all the Jags need to do is not do something silly and draft a quarterback. Got to keep him playing and hopefully he does well. Right, box three. Halfway through this full case NT break. A bit of a fatter box here. Just a fatter hits. A book. No, yes, a book. Wend's Optic Sello. Whenever it sells out. Oh, it's sold out. So we'll add that to the schedule. I haven't gone through orders yet, Joss. I've been in the middle of a break, as you can see. We'll figure it out. Probably in that 730 time slot. So not for a little bit. There's Leveon Bell for the Jets. That'll be for Scott Corwin. Khalil Mack to 50. That'll be for the number block. 49 out of 50. To say. Chris Godwin, 38 out of 49. He had a nice season last year. Buccaneers, Jeremy Anderson with Tampa Bay. Now that he's got Brady throwing to him, too. It could be interesting. Greg Olson, 4 out of 49. Panthers 4 is going to be Chris Erickson. There's some nice color popping in that window. Sam Darnold, Colossal Relic for the Jets. Another one for Scott Corwin. J-E-T-S Jets, Jets, Jets. 25 out of 25. Matt Ryan, Calvin Ridley, Dual Relic, Falcons. John Wickham got the Falcons straight up. Trent Center, are you reminiscing there? Yeah, that was a pretty unbelievable hit. Ostruck, stunned. Jay Slay, to 99.  And Andy Isabella, 3 out of 89. 3, color patch. An on-card autograph. Cardinals, number block 3. Michael Moro with number 3. The book is Damien Harris, 91 out of 99. Nice patch, nice autograph right there, nice book. Which one? Chris Erickson. There you go, Chris. Great, but there you go. Some slider boxes for that. And we got Bears, David Montgomery, 78 out of 99. Triple Relic and Auto, Chicago, 8. It's going to be Elvis Eckman. And the last box. What kind of surprises do you think are going to happen in the NFL Draft? Have there been any big surprises in recent years? I feel like the Bears trading up for Trabisci, I think was a bit of a surprise, at least to me. Was there, I don't know, was there anything like kind of jaw-dropping? The Bengals get, that's got to be a concern, right? I had him saying the Bengals get hacked and take an offensive tackle. Oh man, or like a corner. And we said cornerback, not, we said cornerback, not cornerback. Mark Andrews to 99. Yeah, I guess hacking's got to be a bit of a threat. And to say with number nine, Bobby Wagner to 50. That's Arizona Group, that's the Arizona Group, Daniel Posey number nine. So this doesn't count as a hit, Daniel. So you're at nine spots, still eligible for that 50 bucks. Joe Borot to the Jets, there's Rashad Penny, 37 out of 99, Relics do count, Hans with number seven. Nice group of patches here, Leonard Fournette, 21 out of 25. I think Fournette was in Trabisci's class, right? I'm pretty sure the NFL Rookie Premier here in Los Angeles, way back when we were in attendance, I think Leonard Fournette was there. And Trabisci was there too.  Darren Porter with the Jags. And Trabisci, who's a nice dude, it seems, was just like, I didn't know it was going to happen. He goes, I was just a surprise to everybody else. 55 out of 99, Tony Pollard. And that's Cowboys five. That'll be for Elvis. There's a randomizer right here, 27 out of 99. Niners. X-Line has a shot at this. Jaguar's Porter House. Steak has a shot at this. Carolina seven has a shot at this. That's CJ. And Steelers has a shot at this. Fred Schultz. There's Curly Culpe. Two out of 25. Old Chief going to the X-Line. Old Kansas City Chief. There's David Montgomery. 67 out of 99. Napkin, but a nice autograph. There you go. Bears seven. That will be for CJ. Bears seven. We'll get a slider box for that a little bit after this break. Mahomes. Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes. 25 out of 25. Pat Mahomes. Autograph. That is a 2018 First Team All-Pro Selection autograph right there. That's Josh X-Line with the Chiefs. There he is. There you go, Josh. That's what he was listening for. Oh, is this the last one? Looks like Steelers colors. It is. Two-color patch and autograph. Deontay Johnson. 12 out of 18. His jersey number. Going to Fred and the Steelers. Last spot, Mojo. There you go, ladies and gentlemen. Nice break. All right. So let's randomize that. And we've got to figure out who is eligible for this break credit here. So let's actually go back to... Let's go back to this group right here. So we had the Rashad Penny to Sells. 37. Andy Isabella was three. This Kyler was one. And this other Kyler was also one. So that was pretty nice for Travis. Sorry, Travis. No break credit for you. You got the Kyler Murray RPA. And then the Relic is considered to hit 12 out of 99. So that's number two. Okay. So I need two lists here. There's dice. List one. So we'll same dice roll for both lists. Let's do the Quad Relic first. San Francisco, Jacksonville, Carolina, Pittsburgh. And then let's grab this group here. And then one dice roll for both lists. Four and a one, five times. Good luck. And a one, fifth and final time. Jacksonville on top. And that's going to be Darren Porterhouse steak. Nothing exciting in those relics there, but... I'll go to you. All right. And the break credit. Four and a one, five times. Fifth and final time. Daniel Posey. There you go, Daniel. You went hit list. I apologize.  But a little consolation prize. $50 a break credit going your way. Joe for Jasper's Case Breaks dot com. I'll see you for the next one.


Styling forms sucks, but luckily it is getting a little bit easier with a new addition to CSS in the property of accent color. Hello my friend and friends and welcome back to the channel. I'm so glad that you're here and if you are new to my channel, my name is Kevin and here at my channel we learn about how to make the web and how to make it look good with weekly tips tricks and tutorials that mostly focus on the wonderful world that is CSS. And I've known about accent color for a while now, I know and it's sort of been on my radar thanks to Adam Argyle posting about it a while back, but I hadn't been thinking about it too much because the browser support just wasn't there for it. But then I saw a TikTok from Adam's podcasting partner in crime, Una, and in that TikTok she let us know that browser support is pretty much here for both Chrome and Firefox, which is just super exciting. I've also started my own TikToks, if you want to follow me there, you definitely can. So as this video is coming out, it is already supported in Chrome and support for Firefox is just around the corner and I know for sure some of you guys right now are going, but what about Safari? So I'll talk about them at the end as well. All right, so here is a pretty simple code pen that I put together with just a few radio buttons and a range slider and some check boxes and stuff just so we can see how this actually works. And the first thing to do is all of these are input switches nice because we can select everything with one selector. And then it's a new property called accent color just like that. And you can just put what you want. So I can put red and watch this, they're all going to change those accent colors are changing. Isn't that cool? Everything just switches like that. So so easy to do.  And no, we don't have complete control on the styling of it, but it looks really good. And one really nice thing with this actually is that it comes with accessibility built in. So right now you can see that my checkbox is here. The check itself is white. And let's change this over to an accent color of DDD, which is a really light color. And then the checkbox is automatically switch over in their color to black. So accessibility is built in, you do not have control over the check. It's either going to choose white or black based on the contrast of the color that you've chosen as your accent color. So lime green, something like that. And you can see it switches now for me, something that makes a little bit more sense is actually having a custom property here instead. So you could have your var color accent here. And then of course, it will follow whatever color you've set up as your custom property. So you can just bring in your brand's color and plop it in there and it's going to work. And if you want to play a little bit with this and just see what you can do and see how that contrast ratio thing works, I have set this up so you can choose whatever color you want. You can try this in the different browsers to see if it's working or anything like that as well. Because if it's not working in a browser such as Safari, and I said I would address them, what would happen is basically this, they would just not get the experience of the color changing. Now hopefully that's not a deal breaker for you because it might not look as nice. It might not be exactly what you're after, but everything's perfectly functional. It's all there. This is just a progressive enhancement. We can have a little bit of a nicer user experience for people who are on either Chrome or Firefox. And then as soon as Safari actually does get support for accent color, well, magically it's going to start working for them as well. So yeah, I just think this is so great. It's so easy to do with just one line of CSS like this. And if you like this idea of really easy to style things that used to be kind of hard, I do have a video for you right here that looks at how easy it is to give custom styling to bullet points in CSS now, or if you like the short and to the point videos, I have a custom playlist right here of a bunch of short to the point videos that I think you'd enjoy a lot. And with that, a really big thank you to Zach Randy and Stuart for being my supporters of awesome over on Patreon, as well as all my other patrons to the monthly support. And of course, until next time, don't forget to make your corner internet just a little bit more awesome.


I think it's something that's just ingrained in my nature. I love working with patients. No one goes to hospital when they're well to actually be there to help them that's something I love doing. Grew up on the Gold Coast. Gold Coast born and bred, lived here my whole life. From a young age I've always really wanted to travel and not just to all the places that you would suspect but also into some of the third world countries and actually provide access to healthcare services where they don't actually have any. One of the things that really stuck out to me was Griffith's global status. That for me was really important. I've just found since starting the degree that there's just been countless opportunities available to me. One of those being the Royal Flying Doctor Service it was just phenomenal. I spent two weeks travelling all around Queensland and retrieving patients and delivering patients. You're enabling people who lived in these areas to gain access to the healthcare that everyone in the city has. The fact that I've found something I love doing at such a young age is one of the things that I'm really thankful for. I think it's really important to find something that you love doing because at that point you then never work a day in your life.