was so good and it made me cry. if they don't well friendship over this woman can write this is not gonna be a book for you. well done sanderson and i loved it. tis the season to round and rave today we are raving. my top 10 best books of 2021. these are not books that came out necessarily 2021 these are books that i read in 2021. this list is as always according to me and my opinions so i did my best to rank them uh as usual the middle bit is not super married to that order but the top is the top and the bottom of my best books of the year is the bottom so in the middle it's more it could go different ways. again as usual let's do the worst best to the best best and on an extra positive note. number 10 on my list is malibu rising by taylor jenkins read. this is taylor jenkins read's new book. this actually did come out in 2021 and taylor jenkins read has become an autobiography for me. i picked up uh the seven husbands of evil and hugo because everyone and their mother was raving about it even people who don't read lit fic were like this book though and i was like well if everyone seems to like it every type of reader seems to like it. sans therese and i'll probably won't hate it and i loved it balled my eyes out. i was like okay okay so when people were raving about her next book daisy jones and the six i was like well i wouldn't normally pick that up but she didn't let me down with seven husbands people like this too i'll read that too and i loved it so when melby rising was coming out i was like i mean literally if anyone else was writing this i'd be like nope a book about surfers in the 80s just absolutely not my thing but i was like taylor you haven't let me down yet so i will read this as well and i loved it i don't think i think of the three books from her it's probably my least favorite but an absolutely fantastic book regardless and i absolutely would not like a book about servers written by anybody else i mean i guess it's possible there's another taylor out there but she just is so amazing at weaving a portrait of characters instead of a short amount of time of lots of characters and very real fully fleshed out feeling characters that you really care about them and their stories in a very short amount of time because you feel like you've really lived with them even though these are all standalone books and they are relatively short so the amount of time you actually spend with them isn't that long but she writes them so vividly so poignantly so realistically that you just you believe in them and they feel real to you and once again she did that with melby rising again i think i like seven husbands and daisy jones a little bit better both of them but melby rising was still great and i absolutely deserve to be on my best books of the year next up i have a brandy sanderson book skyward uh i have a video up uh not a review but um talking about why skyward might secretly be named of the wind which was a video done tongue in cheek like don't actually take me seriously on that i don't take that seriously but anyway skyward his the first thing is ya sci-fi series and it was just a good time it was a really good time i binge read it i didn't even plan to pick it up at all it wasn't on my tpr but uh jess and jessey and el were hosting a read-along in anticipation of the weeks of sci-tonic and i was like all right i've been meaning to read skyward for forever let's freaking do it and i didn't i haven't read starside or sci-tonic yet but uh skyward i just couldn't put it down i really enjoyed it i feel like a lot of the things that i tend to zero in on as flaws in his other books and his adult fantasy books these are things that are still present in skyward but they were appropriate for skyward so having slightly more juvenile characters it's a ya sci-fi series our main character is yeah having quite modern uh and simple dialogue this is a sci-fi series for our main character as a teenager so like the his storytelling isn't actually that different in skyward as it is from other stories but because of the setting because of the audience it's geared towards the type the type of story that it is those are no longer flaws if that makes sense this is where this fits this is appropriate and i was like yeah well here yeah that's what goes here even the thing that i thought i would hate the like animal companion slug thing that was so cute i did hate the fake square word that is in it but i almost always hate that it always feels fake and stupid to me like literally almost docked an entire star for that but overall could not put it down and i'm very excited to restart sites so this is a win for me um well done sanderson next up i have deathless divide by jacina ireland um i read the first book dread nation in 2020 uh and i read deathless divide um with mara who had already read dread nation and had not yet read this so we better read the second one together and we both really really loved it um i think we both thought the first one was slightly better but it was more to do with just sort of pacing issues the second one has a big time jump in the middle so it kind of feels weirdly segmented where it's sort of like two books in one so we kind of felt like how that was broken up may not have made a lot of sense it's kind of jarring to have that like gap in the middle but overall it was an amazing conclusion to the duology this duology i think is a master class in what both y a and alternate history fantasy has the capacity to be you don't know anything about this duology it is a y a alternate history uh fantasy i guess i mean it's a zombie book i guess alternate history horror where uh it asks the question what if there had been a zombie apocalypse during the civil war so i think it tackles questions that are from a more like historical grill building perspective extremely well like okay what what would that look like how was society the way that it was back then have reacted to the presence of zombies how they would have reorganized society or dealing with that how this would have influenced and affected what and how like what they did with and how they handled the having of slaves and how they would repurpose slaves to address this issue how this could present both hardship and opportunity for the people involved how it would change the civil war itself and the trajectory of like of america's development so like just from like a again world building and history perspective this is how you do it forget that it's y a like alternate history fantasy is one of those tricky things to do but i think you really have to pay attention to that detail and really do that thought exercise now just do things willy nilly if you want to feel real and she did it was amazing and then the story itself the characters it's again and a fantastic example of like just how real and gritty and dark why a can be while still absolutely being why a like it doesn't feel like well this should have been marketed as adult i think adults can definitely read it and enjoy it i did but it feels like it's it's still for a yi audience the way that it presents these things it doesn't shy away from presenting the dark side of slavery of racism of zombies but it handles them in a way that it's still appropriate and palatable for a slightly younger audience and it is just chef's kiss and the main character again is a fantastic example of having a feisty main character that doesn't become a caricature like she's sassy and she can be stubborn but that does get in her way and that does have negative impacts on her she isn't just like a sassy why a character like she actually feels like a flesh and blood human being that's dealing with some real issues some dark things and the people around her also were very well written and just the whole the whole project of it was executed so well and it's just compellingly written like it's so intensely readable i hate zombies i avoid zombies at all costs but i picked this up because i heard such great things about it and it did not disappoint highly highly recommend this duology it is so good next up i have guns of the dawn by atrian tchaikovsky so well on my worst books of the year is a book that alan picked for me but on my best books of the year there's a book that alan picked for me so hi highs and low lows i liked guns of the dawn so much that i picked it as my pick for january's blaze and bodice groupers book club pick because i am certain that the ladies will like this as well and if they don't well friendship over guns of the dawn is a i keep wanting to accidentally categorize it as alternate history fantasy it is not actually it is just heavily inspired by history like historical place and time it feels very much like sort of like revolutionary war era it is flintlock fantasy but it does it isn't actually like england during the revolutionary war it is a fantasy world with like a fantasy country and fantasy problems and etc but it's very much that vibe and it is i think alan compared it to downtown abbey um i mean downtown abbey is the raw era uh i would more like in it to like pole dark or something i feel is you know very like that relationship kind of drama at least in the beginning and then the whole rest of the book is war and the war and the battle is written extremely well and to stand alone book which is always refreshing fantasy i think the world building is done very well uh you didn't have to do it too much of it because you know it leans on you recognizing revolutionary war era type type sort of aesthetic and political social norms etc and it executes them well so if this was historical like alternate history fantasy like it wouldn't be too far off the mark as it is but there's magic in it so we weave magic into it as well i mean you could go the route of having it be alternate history fantasy that includes magic but it's not it's a fantasy of its own world so i just i feel like yeah it just kind of has it all because it has this sort of a social relationship drama there's family drama there's like romantic uh lizzie darcy or like thornton and what's her name from north and south that kind of a situation there's also like epic war and there's political intrigue and there's magic um because like magic is part of the war and uh yeah it's just it's got it all i really really thoroughly enjoyed it i'm so glad alan picked it for me like i was when he talked about it i was generally interested in it so i probably would have picked it up eventually but i'm so glad that you know i was made to pick it up sooner rather than later and i'm excited to reread it in january next up i have girl in the tower by catherine arden this is the second book in the winter night trilogy um i reread the bear the night girl this year and then i finally got around to reading girl in the tower and the winter of the witch winter of the witch is not on this list winter of the witch is still very very good i don't want to say that's not but of the three books in the trilogy the second one is my favorite i think the whole trilogy is excellent without a doubt but the second book i just feel like is peak everything that i love about it i love the main character voss yes she is such an exceptional heroine feisty and independent without that being kind of like an overdone cliche the russian vibes are just off the charts excellently well done by catherine arden in terms of making it authentic and real lots of transliterated russian that makes it even more authentic but the clues the food the way they talk the way they behave the folkloric elements it is just like as russian-y and russian-ish as you can get without like reading a book in russian about russia and it is it it is the second book it maintains the magic and whimsy and wonder of bear the night and gale while still raising the stakes and making this a little darker a little more real and involving more of the characters that you didn't meet some of in the first book but sort of expanding things and escalating things and it was just an absolute page turner i didn't expect a book in the winter night trilogy to be they're immersive but i didn't expect it to be a page turner the way that the girl the tower was and i just i got sucked in and i loved it so so good the third book great too but second book so good next up i have the hundred thousand kingdoms by nk jemisin and nk jemisin oh my word this woman can write i i'm just staggered every time i pick up a book by her i read the broken earth trilogy and then i intended the uh is it the dreamer duology it begins with the killing man is that what it's called well whatever to be my next one but then my patrons picked hundred thousand kingdom does he buddy read so we won't with that and it was written before broken earth um so it was interesting kind of going backwards and seeing a lot of sort of like prototype versions of some ideas that are much more further explored in broken earth trilogy sort of seeing the seeds of those ideas where like some directions she's clearly interested in going and sort of like beginning to kind of like tease those directions or dipper toes in those directions and then again knowing where that interest kind of gets like fully fleshed out and like leaned into and broken earth so it's kind of fun to see hints of what was to come in this earlier work but it was once again just an absolutely staggering example of utterly original world building it does not feel like it's like that it's derivative or or imitating anything else and not that that's always a bad thing i mean there's certainly a great books that are heavily inspired and intended to be read as being inspired by specific places in specific times and that's absolutely their intent is for you to pick up on that but i think it's much harder to find truly original world building where it doesn't feel like okay well so you've basically taken x y z and then like made it fantasy and it also doesn't feel like oh like you are basically imitating another fantasy author like oh this isn't just like a tulkin redux or this isn't you know etc like it doesn't feel like anything else it's its own thing in a way that is so utterly uniquely jemisin and like the authorial voice is distinct and if you don't like jemisin's authorial voice there's no getting away from that but it's just a unique way both of building your world kind of telling the story like the way that she tells the story to you like the way that you come to know the story is also so inventive and unusual the way you come to the story the way you come to know the character the way you come to know what's going on is also different it doesn't feel like and here's the part where we get this and here's the part where we get this and this is the part where they explain that like all of it feels fresh and new and innovative and and captivating and again very bingeable and i just cannot put it down when i read a jemisin book because i'm just like wow what is any of this i must know so highly recommend i can't wait the other books in series are kind of like it's like a trilogy of stand alums that all are like tendentially connected to each other so it's not a direct sequel but i'm very excited to read the second and third books in the inheritance trilogy next up i have a very new edition uh the declaration of the rites of magicians by hg perry i very recently read this and even more recently read the second book a radical act of free magic of the two books i think the first one is slightly stronger but as a duology i kind of want to put just like the duology on my best of the year and again sort of like what i was saying about deathless divide doing alternate history fantasy is hard and if you think that it's easy if you think that oh well that's much easier because then i don't have to invent my own world and i can just kind of like piggyback off of what actually happened in history if that's how you've approached it which many authors have that's wrong it is just as difficult if not more difficult to properly do alternate history fantasy because to properly do the thought exercise of not only how that place and time would be different if it had this new element be it magic or zombies or whatever also how the having of that would then have a ripple effect and change how things have happened or if they didn't change how things happened uh or if they didn't change what things happened they would have to change how those things happened so that that even if history ended up still bending to the same arc that we know it would still have to have a new reason to come to that if that makes sense so um i think this is just an absolute masterclass in how to do that correctly and i know this book doesn't have as high a ratings as other books and i think that's partly to do with how much care and attention is paid to the historical time in place and how history itself is being reshaped by magic or is being recontextualized or reimagined with the inclusion of magic so this isn't like big huge sweeping battles of sorcery on the streets of london and a lot of nonsense that feels stupid and unreal the having of magic by itself is has a massive butterfly effect for everything in your world which is why like a lot of big epic fantasies that have a lot of big world building big magic i'm like i don't think you've thought this through because even the smallest change the tiniest magical addition the tiniest thing to change the reality is the natural laws of your universe has intense ripple effects so anyway a lot of the book kind of deals with if you don't think about it it takes place sort of um in the enlightenment era so we follow william pit and wilberforce and and then in france we follow robespierre um in the colonies we follow uh tussan levorteur and they are all sort of i mean the figures that you know from history however this is a world in which magic exists and so a lot of the questions that were being grappled with in the in reality in that time and place in history to do with people's individual right the rights of the common man the rights of slaves the questions of abolition these are all sort of reframed to include or to we instead about magic and commoners having the ability to have access to and use their magic and enslaved people's being enslaved for magic by magic and whether or not they have a right to use their own magic and so the debates that would have been happening in the house of commons or in parliament um the kind of bills that were being put forth the kind of debates that were going on about whether you give rights to people or you don't give rights to people then we have war you know and so in wartime then you give extra rights to people then how do you take them back do you take them back is there any taking them back once you've given people rights to have access to their magic and it's just it's so well done reimagining and reframing everything with the inclusion of this question of magic so i just thought it was it was so good and i think the characters were actually i mean even though it was a little bit more dry a little more like history i really felt myself extremely attached to in particular pit and will before us the relationship is very well painted by the author i really feel it feels like a very real friendship and not just in a way of because of like what you know about history but i mean you really feel it between them how much loyalty and trust there is and how much it hurts when that's shaken because they'll end up on opposing sides of a debate uh now and again but how much faith and trust and love there is between them regardless and how that's great but also that's what makes it hurt so much if they're not on the same page about something it's just so well done i see why it's not that popular because again if you don't want a book to be about like people debating a bill in the house of commons uh this is not gonna be a book for you but if you are a nerd about this kind of thing and you also like a bit of magical flair cannot recommend highly enough we're down to my top three now so third is ship of magic by robin hob this was so good i was so excited to start the flagship trader series with mara uh and this month i will be reading mad ship but i haven't read that yet so maybe that's even better but you know i i'm sorry it missed my personal cutoff of i'm filming this today but i've just been loving hob so so much it was a toss-up between putting this and royal assassin on the list and i chose ship of magic one because i read it more recently and two because while i adored royal assassin i think just from a writing craft perspective i think ship of magic demonstrates like the next step in robin hob's like writing journey i mean it's not like she's an up-and-coming author but like i mean she's she wrote a trilogy about fits far seer and it was all from this perspective and it was an amazing deep dive into that main character but now telling a story with multiple perspectives interweaving perspectives overlapping perspectives that's like a whole different volume that is a new level of difficulty that i feel like is not that it's a it's better but it's harder so i don't know yet i've only read ship of magic i don't know yet if live ship traders will end up being a series that i love more than the far seer trilogy i just spent so much time with far seer that like right now that's closer to my heart but i think ship of magic just demonstrated hob's ability to just like turn things up expand them do them in new and fresh ways introduce fresh new characters expand her world show you more they're not just leaning on the fact that she wrote far seer but showing you a completely different part of this world that is almost unrelated to far seer and still weaving in hints of what she written before it just it just shows a level of craft that i think is why it's on here instead of royal assassin even the royal assassin has my whole heart night eyes has my whole heart but ship of magic was just like watching what was a very promising bud fully bloom and it's so impressive chef's kiss highly recommend cannot wait to read mad ship number two is empire of silence by chris hurakia i read all of what's released in the senator series with alex this year we have live shows on our channels about the individual books and we are super stoked for the fourth installment which comes out next spring i think in march but uh empire of silence i think people told me and alex um that the books get better and better and that empire of silence is the weak one and i mean i remember being shocked by that and being like one part of silence was like 10 out of 10 i don't know how you get better than that and i i mean i gave every book in the series so far 10 out of 10 5 out of 5 like knockouts but i think my favorite probably is empire of silence um and it's and i do not mean to suggest that the second and third books are like now steps down or like it's like going down in quality i absolutely do not mean that but there's just something about the beginning of the series where you first come to know all of this you first come to know the characters you first come to know this world there's just something so i don't i don't know if there's a word for it but that's what makes it my my favorite i think so far is just coming to this world and coming to know it for the first time that like continuing to be in the world is a treat because it's well written and there's new and staggering things that you learn that completely re contextualized which you thought you knew so it continues to be like mind-boggling but you can't really repeat that like that first high if that makes sense of like this first introduction of this world and being like wow kind of similarly to the broken earth trilogy i have that experience where the fifth season like is probably my favorite but it's partly just because like that's your first time seeing what this writer can do and what this this world is all about and after that like it's still that like it's still absolutely on that level but it's not your first time tasting it you know your your first introduction to like holy shit this is amazing so um bar of silence is that like first high that you're chasing so if you don't know anything about um bar of silence um well you clearly didn't watch me in alex's live shows but um this is an epic space opera that i think fans of red rising will absolutely love actually i did a video about like should you read the sign eater so leave it down below as well if you're interested in that but um suffice to say like this does everything right this is everything that i want out of a space opera it has incredible world building incredible main character to follow it has similar to those red rising vibes of a sort of more archaic social structure but placed in a far future it does have something that red rising doesn't really ever tackle at least so far and that is alien life and it handles that so anthropologically which coming from me high praise indeed and it was just as i read it i mean while i was just like enjoying the story as a reader the entire time i was also just sitting there going like but from a craft standpoint like the way you've thought this through the way you've built this out the way that you've paid attention to all this detail i'm just like staggered from a technical perspective i think it's a rip roaring can't put it down story that is intense and dark and dramatic and mind-bending and expansive and just just amazing you highly recommend this series and empire of silence the first one is just like wow and the number one book of 2021 i'm sure you've already guessed it is um the wisdom of crowds by jarbra croppy this is the third and final book in the age of madness trilogy it is also the last book that we have that is planned that is scheduled to be in the world of the first law he has indicated interest in writing more in the world of the first law the way that wisdom of crowds ends it certainly leaves scenes for future historians to grow but right now this is all we've got and all that we are planned to have and this is the first book that abercrombie has written that has made me cry and not just a glistening single tear i was ugly crying i joked that i would cry when i read wisdom of crowds because it was the end and i mean that that's sad but that's not why i was crying holy shit it is i mean i think it's the best thing abercrombie has written from a writing craft perspective i mean i have an intense love for the original trilogy uh that i don't think anything could ever release a plant but like it's inarguable that as a writer from a technical standpoint he has gotten better and better and better and the new trilogy is as tight and as polished and as just lean and completely like perfect as it could possibly be i don't think that i could possibly argue that the original trilogy is from a technical standpoint better than the new trilogy the new trilogy is like peak olympic performance and then the third each book got subsequently better a little hatred i was like holy shit i'm this is the best thing i've read from you so far and then trouble with peace was even better and i was like that's ridiculous and then wisdom of crowds was so good and it made me cry and i just i i mean i have a review for it on my channel leave that thing down below i also interviewed abercrombie which was low key the best thing of the year so leave that thing down below too it's a third book in a trilogy that is also like the 10th book in an ongoing world so i can't really say too much about it except that way to stick that landing sir i was nervous going in because sticking the landing of any series is difficult it's impossible for me not to have high expectations because i hyped it for myself so intensely and it's still managed to surpass my ridiculously high expectations so hats off just kiss you're the goat i just wow wow so those are my top books of 2021 let me know in the comments down below your thoughts and feelings about my thoughts and feelings uh let me know if there's any books on this list that you have read that you want to read that you you hated and think they belong on the worst books list or that you were surprised that i didn't have on this list that you expected to see whatever you want let me know i post videos on saturdays other random times of all that i think saturdays so like and subscribe join my patreon if you feel so inclined and i'll see you when i see you bye


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What is up everybody? Jake here. We're back with episode two of Eat Big, Get Big, Train Big and that is exactly what I've been trying to do. Things have been pretty hectic lately. I between work, you know I've been working every day, today I've actually got a day off finally so that's why I'm making this video but it also ties in with being exactly five weeks that I've been on this this bulking diet so the last video was made after three weeks and this one's being made after five so it's been another two weeks and I'm just going to update you guys on my diet, my sups and my training and at the end I'll do a little bit of a physique update as well. I haven't even done one myself, I mean I haven't even wanted to look because you guys know once you've had a six back all you look at in the mirror is your midsection and it's slowly, slowly, slowly getting softer so that will be interesting but we'll do that after I work out because I'll have a pump of course but yeah as I said things are pretty hectic you know I've been I've been training every day that was another thing I was going to mention is that yesterday was actually my first rest day in five weeks and that was just due to the fact that I'd done deadlifts three days before and I'd done heavy legs two days before and then I did my push workout when my back was fucking sore and then it was meant to go onto back again yesterday and man there's absolutely no way in hell that I can train my back I can't even do rows man my back's so sore obviously I went hard on deadlifts so what did I get I think my top set was 170 kgs which is 385 pounds for nine stop-start and so if I was you know if I was going to do tap and go I'd be able to get more probably but it went from nine down to seven and down to seven reps and then from there I went back down to 140 kgs which is 315 and did a couple of sets on that as well so I really ripped it out fucked my backup but in saying that with all the nutrition that I'm taking in that's definitely going to be growing isn't it so that is a good soreness and I'd have to say that deadlifts is probably one of the one exercises that actually can make me sore so I I obviously can go as hard as it needs to fucking you know fuck some shit up so anyway the first part of this video is going to be going through what sups I'm using so I'm a natural bodybuilder Natty I guess I can say I'm a bodybuilder now because I've actually been on stage but you know if I can say one thing I don't enter into the fake Natty half Natty debate anymore although I do realise that if I want to put videos out there that are going to go viral and get popular all I have to do is mention fucking Simeon Panda and a fake Natty in the same title and it's going to get thousands of views but I'm going to say now on the record that I think Simeon Panda is true I think it's a natural man I think I'm a believer I am a believer and I am going to show you guys what is fucking possible because if there's one message I want to put out there to especially young guys smaller than me I mean I'm seeing guys that are 18 19 that are bigger than me naturally so you know it's definitely possible genetics is huge but if there's you know there's one thing I want to say it's that the power of the mind is extremely important you believe you're going to do something and you're going to get somewhere you're going to do it if you don't believe it you're not going to do it I mean I honestly think that thoughts can literally change the result of physical things including this so in another eight or nine years fuck I want to be as big as Simeon Panda and I will have been training as long as him then but for now I've only been training you know four or five years and I've got the gains I have and we're about to make some more but if you're going to go men's physique if you're going to go nabba bodybuilding um in the weight classes if you're going to go WBFF man you don't need that shit seriously maximize your genetic potential first and then if you do choose to juice after that you're going to get so much better results I mean come on you get a skinny cunt who jumps on who jumps on gear um they're just going to look bloated big soft and fucking shit so don't do it build your base first and then do what you want to do do the research do it safely do what you want to do but build your base first man give it five years and saying that let's go through my supplements guys it's already five minutes into this fucking video I'm a bit of a rambler but let's go through the sups so the first supplement which I'm extremely slack and taking is creatine we all know what creatine does I probably take 10 grams a day every three days three or four days actually I've been fucking slack I wake up in morning I'm so rushed to go to work I just yeah don't do it so that creatine is one the protein powder I've used recently is this one um I've got so many empty containers of MTS Way in the house it's ridiculous so um and they they sold out in Australia so I couldn't get any more so I bought this I had it in New Zealand as well it's it's my favorite tasting protein powder ever um but I don't trust this brand as much as I trust MTS that's for sure so anyway that's finished it's finished now so I've gone through that and I'm going to have to buy some more today probably um but yeah protein powder I actually haven't been having too much um probably two scoops maximum a day usually after a workout or in a morning smoothie um just to just to bump up the protein when I can't be fucked eating meat and you know anything else with protein in it so that's how I use protein powder I've heard of guys having you know multiple scoops multiple times a day and it's just not necessary I mean I'm trying to hit 250 grams of protein a day two scoops is 50 grams that leaves only 200 grams left to get but it's not that hard as far as a pre-workout goes I've been finishing off my gold standard pre I do like this stuff although the creatine is ridiculous only three grams and so I have to and the beta alanine 1.5 grams so really if I really want a nice hit I've got a double scoop and that's way too much caffeine which is 350 milligrams so what I usually do is just go one scoop of this and a scoop of oxygen which is um it's going to increase your well they say it doesn't increase your vascularity but I swear it fucking does increase your vascularity eh and also um it's got a volumising agent in there to give you a better pump and to be honest I'm a supplement whore so I bought it and that's all gone too but um what I was saying is pre-workout I have one scoop of this and also another scoop of amino energy just to give it a nice taste and also a little bit extra caffeine um and some BCAAs in there too but this is also something I use throughout the day like I'll I don't drink coffee really I'll have one of these in the morning um I'll also have it you know it's your afternoon pick me up um and if I don't have a pre-workout on hand I just have three or four scoops of this as a pre-workout and I love this shit man I'm a huge huge fan of amino energy I've been going hard on it for probably two years now and I can't see it stopping so that is one of my favourite supplements and the last one I'm going to talk about is the newest supplement I've bought I've never really gone for an intra-workout sup um intra-workout carb supplement but I have decided to buy one and I've gone with glycogex on their on their reviews and people that I've talked to have had it and it tastes alright and also it obviously doesn't come from from sugar it comes from it's got no sugar in it it comes from complex sources of carbs so what is it derived from potato rice and corn it's got citrulline malate in there um and a couple of other ingredients because it's not only an intra-workout carb source but it also is designed to accelerate nutrient transport and volumisation anyways watermelon flavour tastes pretty good it's fucking expensive but two scoops is 50 grams of carbs and I put that in a shaker take it with me and um I definitely do feel the difference um especially through a leg workout or a back workout halfway through I'll start sipping on this and could be placebo but it's not because it's 50 grams of carbs so it's given me energy and I do feel it and I do like that as a supplement so anyways that is the first part of the video guys and it's shit 10 minutes oh my god if you guys are still watching thank you it's going to be worth it because um we're going to go to the gym now I've got a chest no I've got a a push day so chest shoulders and arms well chest shoulders and triceps um I hit triceps two days ago so not sure about them but chest and shoulders definitely going to get a fucking good pump we're going to go kill it so uh I'm going to have a pre-workout meal because it's first thing in the morning and then I'm going to have a pre-workout drink and then we're going to go to the gym and smash it so after the workout I'm going to go through my uh my training schedule I've I've got a training log that I've been doing for the last five weeks I've never done that before so I've been well I'll show you guys when I when I get there it's on the computer so we'll do a bit of a voiceover thing and have a look at it so until then I'll see you in the gym all right guys what is going on we're here with a push workout at any time fitness no it's not any time fitness it's outback gym and fitness here in Alice Springs um it's a wicked gym it's it's big it's nice and open um there's a couple of little rooms off to the side that you can see uh squat room deadlift deadlift platform it's fucking cool but uh today we're doing a push workout obviously starting off with the incline smith machine most of my workouts these days or for the last five weeks at least have started off with like a compound movement um either five by five or ten by ten so obviously I can use a certain weight and overtime increase the weight or increase the reps and then I can measurably make progress so today you're seeing warm-up that I did before I got into my first first set of ten so I did some some rotator cuff warm-ups really focusing on on actually rotating the shoulder not just forcing it using a nice and light weight I used 2.5 kg plate to warm up my rotator cuffs and then went and did a first warm-up set with 10 kgs on each side um just ripped it out I think I got 20 reps or something and here is my first set of 10 of the 10 by 10 um and don't ask me why but I actually recorded every single set and rep so I do speed it up here's set number two and we're just going to roll through it so the rest of the workout went as follows after this 10 by 10 I went to the seated dumbbell press I did four working sets uh starting off with with 15 kilograms I went up to my normal working set weight with 32 kgs and honestly guys as you'll see um I just did not feel it I felt like my shoulders were going to rip after doing all this work um on the incline press so I decided to drop it down which sucks of course no one likes not using their um their usual weights but I dropped it down to 25 kg and did another three working sets on that um then following that I still wanted to do some more some more pressing so I just used 20 kg dumbbells and did some standing dumbbell press as you'll see so I did two sets of that to failure um following that we went to some isolation exercises did some seated side laterals um I'm always looking to build build the side later uh side side delts always looking to make make myself look wider um that's all about that illusion on stage isn't it so seated seated side lateral raises I did a full warm-up set as you'll see um with a 5 kg 5 kg dumbbells um that got my shoulders really nice and warm and then we went into some um big drop sets with as many reps as I can doing full reps and then 10 partial reps after that so you'll see all that guys uh following that the last exercise was a pec fly so we did two compound movements and two isolation movements it felt really awesome after this workout um you know everything's all good I may not have hit the numbers I wanted to but I got the pump um I definitely got the volume in and it was a good workout so keep watching guys here's a wicked track that I found it's called defeat the night it's a non-copyright so you guys can all listen to it and you can use it in your own videos and yeah I'm just going to wrap it out here I do come to the camera again at the end of the video or the end of the training session um in about three more minutes and then we continue on in the video so thanks for watching and here is actually yep no so those are 32.5s um I have rep those out for eight before but today I just wasn't feeling it too much work on the chest already so we dropped it down to 25s and wrapped it out so here we go guys I'll catch you guys later thanks for watching drop set and then I'm going to go weigh myself and then we go do it for z cup that no triceps just shoulders so post workout let's go find somewhere to do a physique update see how fat I am very soft at the moment um there's no way no way around that but uh some days I feel good some days I don't we're five weeks into a bulk um if I'm already feeling like that it's probably not a good up really I have only myself to blame and I can see exactly why because I've tracked everything that I've eaten and drunk the whole entire time the whole five weeks I've had a 35 day streak on my fitness power so I've actually been more more um you know consistent with tracking my calories and macros now that I'm on a bulk than what I did when I was on a cup so that's pretty stupid but anyways it means that any results that I see on the scales or in the mirror I can see exactly why so basically over the first three weeks I I wanted to bring down my fats so my fats are probably at about 130 grams a day over the first three weeks and that's just because you know I was sort of binging on a few things post comp and stuff but I did manage to keep it under control so 130 was pretty high I wanted to bring that down to about 100 grams a day um carbs was around about 550 I wanted to keep that about the same maybe 600 and protein was up around 300 grams a day um which is way too much so I brought it down to 250 and was meant to stick to that so over week number four November 11th to 17th um my average calories were at 4,387 and that's what it looked like there so that's pretty much the same amount of calories as I had been having in the first three weeks um and the macros average protein was 250 average carbs was 585 with 200 grams of sugar which is a lot but I do have some fruit so some comes from that and fat was down to 109 grams a day so that was I was pretty happy with that um probably you know that's a good amount of food like I'm not I tend to like get more hungry the more I eat so you know that that is actually quite a good amount of food I mean I know I'm putting on fat but fuck it you know I'm going to enjoy this sort of off season as well so I'm never going to be real strict on myself when I don't have a competition or something to um to prepare for so that's what dieting's for anyway so that was week number four 250 protein 585 carb and 109 fat and then last week I've just finished uh just finished the seven days and protein was averaging 268 carbs 608 and fat 123 so it was actually quite high um and I actually haven't really checked these results until now so I'm probably not that happy with that I mean I would have put on put on too much body fat for my liking last week I'd say but we can only get better from there so coming moving forward I'm going to try and stick at the same amounts 100 grams of fat a day 250 protein and 600 carb and continue on my way up to 100 kg so you saw my weigh in before that is with my shoes on which weigh like over a kg so I'm probably weighing like yeah in the morning straight away in the morning without eating or drinking anything probably like 93 and a half and my lowest weigh-in was 86.9 and that was you know pretty dehydrated so yeah I've put on six kgs in five weeks but uh I put on probably three of those straight away so yeah probably three kgs in five weeks well four kgs in five weeks and we're going to continue with this and see how we go guys so I'm going to go inside now make a feed which I have been enjoying man I've been enjoying being able to eat a lot of food that's that's awesome because I do like to eat and another thing is 10 000 calorie challenge is uh on its way so stay tuned for that that'll be fun either way I'll run you through my training of talks for another fucking about five six minutes it's going to be a long video again luckily I'm not making them too often so stay tuned and we'll run through my training all right guys so here is the training log that I was talking about so it's pretty basic I mean weight training record from Monday the 19th two days post comp we started on the Monday with chest and biceps and I weighed myself and I was 89.7 kilograms from there I just continued it I didn't know how long I was going to keep this up I just wanted to make sure that I hit everything twice a week basically so we started at 89.7 went across by Thursday I'd already gone up to 91.5 and then basically from there it's just slowly slowly the weight has increased and on a day when I've when I've hit a PB or when I've hit a good a good set or something I've recorded that too so I can also you know check back on what weights I was using and in the future I can make sure I'm making gains so yeah as I said so I mean with chest for example chest there chest chest again chest chest chest chest chest chest chest and chest today so obviously chest I'm hitting twice a week that's something I really want to bring up so I'm making sure but everything else I am as well or at least trying to so this has really come in handy I tend to forget what I've actually trained so I'm definitely going to keep using this and as well as that I've also got my nutrition little log here so all the data that I get from my fitness pal I bring over into this it makes it a lot easier for me to read I get averages of the week I can calculate different things and it's just really easy it gives me an overview of everything and yeah I'm really enjoying like really making the most of this and that's actually meant to be so I'm on day 35 right now so let's change that and delete that so this is the I'm today is day 35 I actually haven't haven't put that data in there yet but I will so yeah a really great tool to have it just takes a little bit of effort to to you know set it up and then you're sweet you're all good so eat big get big train big episode 2 is done and dusted it is fucking long sorry guys I hope you enjoyed it but basically yeah I just want to bring you guys a real real account of a bulk phase I suppose and um yeah just bring you guys something different I'm a natural bodybuilder I will continue to be so and please keep following me because we're gonna we're gonna make something good out of this so cheers guys I'll see you in the next one


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Welcome to Effector from the Electronic Friends Here Foundation. This is the audio edition of EFF's email newsletter geared towards keeping you on the bleeding edge of your digital rights. Check out the links in our description for all of our stories. This is Effector Volume 33, Issue 1, answers for internet creators on new copyright laws. This issue was published on February 25th, 2021, and I'm your narrator, member outreach assistant Christian Romero. Let's start with some top features. 1. Copyright for Internet Creators Town Hall Anyone who makes or shares things online is affected by copyright law, whether you're a YouTube creator, a fan fiction writer, or just interested in watching or sharing transformative works, or pretty much any other online content, you won't want to miss this town hall on how content creation is affected by copyright and what to do about it. On February 26th, at 10 a.m. pacific time, join EFF's Catherine Trenda Costa and Cara Gagliano, as well as Professor Casey Feisler, a member of the Legal Committee for Archive of Our Own. They will discuss a recent flurry of changes to copyright law, how copyright filters work, or don't work, and answer any questions you might have about copyright. This event will be live streamed via Twitch and is free to attend. It will also be streaming on Facebook Live and YouTube Live. Student surveillance vendor Proctorio files slap lawsuit to silence a critic. During the pandemic, a dangerous business has prospered, invading students' privacy with proctoring software and apps. In the last year, we've seen universities compel students to download apps that collect their face images, driver's license data, and network information. Last fall, Ian Linkletter, a remote learning specialist at the University of British Columbia, became a part of a chorus of critics concerned with this industry. 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EFF is proud to be a part of the first-ever virtual B-Sides SF, a conference dedicated to advancing the body of information security knowledge. Be sure to check out EFF's session from our Director of Investigations Dave Moss titled How to Observe Police Surveillance at Protests. And lastly, we've got some mini-links for you. This first one's from Gizmodo. Minneapolis becomes the latest city to ban government use of face recognition technology. With a unanimous city council vote, Minneapolis joins Boston, San Francisco, and more than a dozen cities across the country that have banned government use of face recognition technology. This next one's from the New York Times. The best law you've never heard of. Americans should feel angry about companies harvesting every morsel of our data to sell us sneakers or rate our creditworthiness. But a data protection law that few of us know about should give us hope. This last mini-link is from Politico. 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What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here So we're mostly going to be talking about horror updates in this video here today But at the end of it after I'm done with these horror updates regarding the scream seven saw X and Nightmare in Elma Street I will be including a review for Transformers rise of the beast Rise of the beast if you want to stick around for that So just to kick it off with scream seven Melissa Barrera talked about Sam's future in a recent interview with digital spy, but I could have sworn She's actually talked about stuff like this in the past, but maybe it's just a little bit of deja vu She stated this with digital spy in regards to Sam's future. She said there are so many places that Sam could go That's one of the reasons that when I read the script for screen five. I was so interested in the character There's so much potential here of where she could go with her mental health. She's just unpredictable I find that darkness in her makes her that much more interesting to play and to watch She's the hero, but she's also kind of the villain It's this contradiction in her that I find fascinating and if we get to do another one I would love to see the writers have done a really good job with her up until this point So I trust them just to know where to take her in a way that will be unexpected and cool for the fans Now I've seen a lot of people say where they should take Sam is into the direction of how will the death of Tara impact her I've seen that tossed around Melissa Barrera has actually gone on record to say she would She wouldn't mind not that she I guess would prefer Sam to be ghost face But if they were to make Sam ghost face, she would love to play ghost face in that role now in terms of How they could explore Sam in the future obviously killing Tara and seeing how that would impact her could be quite compelling But that's only being brought up because of the assumption that there's a chance that Jenner or Tega might not participate But even still if Jenna is or not to participate the death of Tara very much So could lead to Sam having one of the most incredible arcs out of the trilogy if we're in a play up this mental health Issue and this idea that Tara was what kept her grounded. I've talked about this countless times on this channel But jumping into the next topic here Robert England recently let it be known that he's too old and too thick to play Freddy Krueger anymore But Devin Sawa has recently expressed interest in donning the classic fedora Sawa recently is known for his three roles in Chucky which all resulted in his death And then of course we all seem to recognize him if you are someone who had a great childhood with horror We recognize him the most from Final Destination and for being the original stand if you're in the know with your rap culture Sawa shared this sentiment in a tweet Honestly, I'm down for anything that can give us a quality performance with a design similar to England's makeup That's just my own opinion there Dave McCray I seen recently did an iteration of Freddy for Dylan's new nightmare I believe is the title of this fan project And I think it'd be badass if Dave was actually offered a role as Freddy for an official cannon entry into the franchise So I've also seen people talk about Jamie Campbell Bauer Who has been the name that I've seen tossed around my fans who loved his work in Stranger Things as Vecna But do you think that Devin Sawa will be a good choice for Freddy? Why or why not let me know down in the comment section below me personally I don't see it being a good fit That's just me and now that I think about it I am starting to think that I would love again for Dave McCray if at all possible for him to be offered the next Then or for him to be the next iteration of Freddy that we get and again It really all just comes down to the makeup because I think again for Jackie His biggest issue was that makeup because Jackie the more more I think about it and the more I revisit that remake over Years Jackie did a fine job. But again, let me know if you think that Devin style could be a good Freddy wire. Why not now? Last thing here for horror. We're gonna talk about is Josh Stolberg who shared some Q&A style updates about saw X over on Twitter Which by the way saw X viewer non says that they've been told this is the best entry in the series So I'm intrigued but this came from a friend at lion's aid apparently anyway That doesn't mean that of course it doesn't mean it's true But they work for lion's gate, although I guess depending on the department. It won't really matter Maybe they didn't have too much of a direct tie to saw X. But since they work for lion's gate They just were able to maybe see a cut and they're not as Bias towards it because they didn't actually work on it. They just work for lion's gate now Josh said this about saw X He said was it always called saw X No, we first started pursuing the storyline even before spiral at the time This was saw 9 when we first pitched the story in our pitch document. It was simply called John Kramer We've never been able to make a Kramer centric film I mean, we've all been hearing that saw X is going to be an Mid-cool set in between the events of one and two I believe and John is expected to travel and deal with a doctor who is a fraud For working what he calls miracle operations or something that was the alleged plot synopsis Well, actually that also came from viewer 9 now It was leaked that the iconic location from the original film will return Shanice Smith is back according to trusted sources that have reported on this all in all saw X to me It just has no business being worse than spiral Josh also seemed to tease the return of Billy the puppet Which isn't too shocking knowing that this originally this was originally our saw 9 makes me think that a lot of passion must be Going behind this one. I just have a feeling because this was originally going to be the movie We got before Chris Rock saw film spiral Which again, I enjoyed spiral. I do think it's one of the better entries I know it has its naysayers, but I I am on the side of gonna be defending Spiral although as I rewatch spiral it does have some things that I will admit are Highly flawed in terms of filmmaking now last thing here No more horror horror updates This will be a spoiler free review for Transformers Rise of the Beast now Transformers Rise of the Beast It's my favorite since that original Bane movie as I mentioned in my tweet I'm not saying it's better than the Bumblebee project because it isn't but in comparison to base sequels This is the best film since that 2007 Classic I would say from my childhood anyway now this film of course is directed by Steven Capel Jr. It stars Anthony Ramos Peter Cullen Pete Davidson Dominic Fishback and some other Other known names that I'm not gonna really get into as there's too many But the story revolves around Optimus Prime and the Autobots taking on their biggest challenge yet With a new threat capable of destroying the entire planet emerges They must team up with a powerful faction of Transformers known as the Maximals to save Earth now We have great human characters in this one who actually are given a lot to do They aren't off on side adventures with the government entities So the story isn't juggling a lot with its human characters and keeps it pretty simple and not overstuffed Noah who was our main human character is played wonderfully by Anthony Ramos He's given a lot of hurdles to overcome that make him more compelling than someone like a Sam Whitwicky who I still love but Noah's hurdles make the inevitable along make make the inevitable alliance with our Autobots and Maximals that much more rewarding There's even a little rocky start between him and Optimus that blossoms into a mutual understanding over time since Optimus and Nora are trying to overcome similar hurdles Noah struggles to find a job it has a shaky history with the army and is trying to keep his home together But nothing seems to be working which Optimus can relate to when it comes to his home planet of Cybertron and some of his own Struggles, he's dealing with internally about blaming himself for how they got trapped on earth and can't get home, but The script is mostly held back By rough dialogue bits and some exposition dumping that mostly comes from Elena who Dominic fishback plays I believe that's Dominic fishbash. Yeah, sure. Let us know what's happening But show don't tell is always my preference show me don't always tell me like this Elena is also pretty one note as a character to me But that could change on a rewatch Dominic is great in the role which probably ended up saving it the conflict between our Autobots maximals and terracons with unicorn leading them is kept simple and not overly complex The voice cast does a wonderful job, but Pete Davidson as Mirage is easily the standout Like I mentioned some of the dialogue is hit or miss especially with the jokes But Mirage's material works every time there's a moment where Noah says Mirage is just a work friend And he's like work friend, but you were inside me. I just lost it at that at that point It was just delivered so well the joke might not hit for everyone But it's definitely Pete's best role for me The soundtrack is filled with bops and the 90s era is captured quite well Much like my love for the screen movies in a formula that we see over and over again But still praise rise of the beast is not something I haven't seen before in terms of a Transformers movie But it's still executed well enough compared to past franchise fumbles Admittedly some of the story beats weren't able to sell me on the stakes It wanted to because it was like I've seen this before so I know how this will eventually go down And of course it ended up going down how I thought it would and yet the outcome was still heartwarming and fun to watch Due to the execution again being so well done I wasn't the biggest fan of the editing a lot of times cuts every other second is a very big issue for me when it comes to Filmmaking, but the action sequences are thrilling to look at and easy to follow for the most part I wouldn't say I was also too crazy about the CGI either although. That's not to say that it was terrible Movie doesn't overstay its welcome clocking in at about two hours But the pacing for the third act can feel a bit rushed all in all I would have to give rise of the beast a Seven out of ten. Yeah, I'm gonna give it a seven out of ten Let me know just think about all of this down the comment section below if you haven't already of course Make sure you subscribe turn on post notification in this video in the description. I'll have links on my social media accounts I'm on Facebook sort of Instagram you can message me there Of course, there's any movies news reviews let me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


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