Isometrics are strange because they activate the most muscle fibers and then they're safest because you're not moving. Now, how do they, why do you activate so many muscle fibers? Cause when you're pushing against an immovable object, let's say I'm doing a, a isometric squat where I get into a bar that I'm not going to lift, I get in good position and I drive as hard as I can for five to 10 seconds because the bar is not moving, my body summons a majority of my muscle fibers, then it summons the rest as I continue with this isometric do that, then go do your traditional squats. You just feel so supported. Like if you start with isometrics, you're, um, everything that is stabilizing, like at another level in, uh, you're really in tune with your central nervous system and that same recruitment process you would, uh, get from doing an explosive movement, you're just doing it in a, in a more controlled way. Uh, and then that, that same kind of concept applies, but also I've just noticed even more so that my joints felt strong supported, which allowed me to then, um, shuttle out even more force. Welcome back. All right. This is the last time I'm going to give away maps cardio. The new maps program we just launched, uh, but the final hours is the final hours of the launch promotion. It's on sale. You get free stuff with it. So this is the last time I'm going to give it away for free for a long time. Here's how you can win. Leave a comment below in the first 24 hours that we dropped this episode, subscribe to this channel, subscribe to the mine pump clips channel and turn on notifications. Do all those things. If we like your comment, we'll notify you. You'll get free access to maps cardio. Okay. So here's a launch that we have a few hours left to take advantage of the price is going to go from 117 to $77. So there's a discount there. 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You got stronger, faster, 10 of them. Oh, wow. Okay. I wonder of the 10, how many will actually be weird to people that are like out of the box and how many will be like, oh, I knew that. I think that maybe people will listen to them and say, oh, yeah, that kind of makes sense. But then when you look at the studies, it's pretty wild. Like let's, let's start with the backing behind them. Yeah. Let's start with the first one. Um, and this one is a, a much bigger athletic performance booster for fitness fanatics than just the average person. And, and I'll explain why in a second. And that is to have some salt, have some salt, increase your sodium intake. Now, the reason why this makes a big difference with athletes is because athletes or fitness fanatics tend to eat a diet that is not comprised of heavily processed foods. So the sodium take is lower than the average person. And then you couple that with the fact that they work out and sweat a lot, which means they excrete a lot of sodium. So supplementing with sodium or salt in your water or like what we like to use is elementy. We put that in our water, better pumps, better strength, better performance, better recovery. Yeah. It's an intramuscular fluid. Like it helps with aid in performance. Totally. Quite substantially. Absolutely. How, how big is the electrolyte market? It's got to be pretty big, huh? Oh, it's, it's, I mean, this is, I mean, this is something we've known for a while. I think we've gotten better about the formulations. I don't, I think people don't realize it's the sodium that makes the biggest difference. Um, I remember when I first learned us with endurance, uh, clients that I had where they, I would just tell them to take some Himalayan pink salt, take a pinch, put it in the water.  Yeah. I think, uh, as an athlete and, and drinking Gatorade and all like the thought was like, you just, you didn't want to lose too much sweat, like as you're out there in the field. And that was the extent of the electrolyte conversation. So in terms of it being an actual performance boost, I don't think people really realize even with weight training, like what that does, that can't be right. That's, I think 32 billion. It's 32. It's, it's, it says million. I know, but it's 32,000, 518 million. That means 32 billion. Yeah. It's a billion, billions of dollars in weird way to write it. Yeah. That's a really, we're really weird way to write. Yeah. That's a lot. Yeah. It's a lot. Yeah. And the other thing too is athletes often, especially people who lift weights will lead a lower carbohydrate diet, which also reduces the amount of fluid and sodium that you have in your body. So in fact, a lot of people going to ketogenic diet, we'll talk about keto flu. Sometimes it's because their sodium is too low. You have them introduce sodium into the diet, uh, higher rates and they feel a ton better. So that's, that's one that's. Now, is there, is there recent stuff that's came on? Cause what was interesting when Doug pulled that up, uh, not only is it, well, you know, 32 billion or whatever, but it's projected to grow all the way to 56 billion by 2030. So within, you know, the next six, seven years where they're projecting it to almost double the market. It's, uh, it's a valuable product that we've been, you know, athletes have kind of known about it for a while. Here, I'll read a study to you. Check this out. So this is, uh, uh, this was, uh, in science news, the effectiveness of salt on sports performance in triathletes is what they evaluated. The athletes who added supplement, uh, the supplement of salt to their usual hydration routines during the competition took 26 minutes less to complete a medium distance triathlon course, 26 minutes less. Wow. That's a close. Yeah. That's a massive impact. And I remember when we, when we first started working with elementy, I'm not an endurance athlete, uh, but I did it with my workouts and I was like, whoa, the pumps are way better. Yeah. It's so counter to what people perceive salt as being this evil addition that just for flavor and it's going to spike their, uh, hypertension and, you know, blood pressure issues as a result of that. And I think that, you know, we're just now coming around and realizing salt plays a, a pretty big factor in, in movement in, uh, any kind of like athletic pursuit. Okay. That's weird. Number one, what's weird? Number two, pick an awesome music playlist. Now people, I know it sounds funny because people like listening to music, but I don't know if you guys really, I'll pull up a study on this. I don't know if you guys realize just how big it, if, no, it definitely affects it for sure. It's a big impact. It's a lot more than, than, uh, than people realize, um, there's, I mean, I think, you know, I think maybe you may not realize it, but subconsciously you have to kind of know, right? Okay. Like you have, uh, like how, how much does music play a role in like your emotions? Like when you watch a movie, or imagine watching a movie, scary movie and like a herelic movie and you cut out the musical part. Like if you're, I've ever seen them do that before. It like, it kills it. It just shows you what an impact that it makes on you emotionally, right? Well, one study showed a 15 percent improvement in endurance, 15 percent. Just from music, no change in diet, no change in training, just music alone. An equal percent, uh, reduction in pain perception was also shown in other studies with music. So that's a big difference from music alone. And music is like, it's not even, it's not, again, it's, it just, you're right. It affects emotion. It affects perception and that affects your performance, but 15 percent, like name a supplement that has been shown to improve athletic performance by 15. Yeah, no, that's a, that's another great one. Throw Pantera on it. I don't feel any pain. It does. It's weird though now that I guess there's got to be such an individual variance though, how that would work, right? Because I've always thought it's crazy that people get hyped on like hip hop. Like I love hip hop music. I just, I listen to it all the time, but doesn't do it for you, but doesn't do it for working out, like for working out for parties. Yeah. I need, I need justice type of music, your type of music for working out. If I'm getting after it, like if I'm trying to cruise and I actually don't want to improve performance in the gym, I might listen to hip hop or country. Well, reading articles on this, uh, part of it is, uh, a big part of it is the association you have with the music. So like for me, uh, you guys are going to laugh, but obviously if I work out to like a Rocky soundtrack, because as a kid growing up watching that movie, that was such a, you know, impactful movie for me. And you had the montage which one is it? Is it the Eye of the Tiger or any of the opener? Any of them. But Rocky 4 is my favorite. The montage is on there where he's running up the mountain and draw a go and do all that. I feel like that movie has created so many emotions for you that you'd almost be like confused in the gym with that. My turd on right now. I don't know if I'm horny or I'm like ready to work out. I don't know, babe. My performance isn't that good. I don't know how I feel right now. I have the time. All right. Pick the right playlist. Yeah. That's the point. Let's do it. We're going to have a lot of fun. That's a good one though. I like that as a weird one. All right. Let's number three. What's the third weird word? Training the afternoon. So studies on the best time of day to work out. Now we've talked about this on the show before. The best time of day that you can work out ultimately is the time that you're going to be the most consistent because at the end of the day, that's what matters. Yeah. But if you want to boost performance, studies show consistently. People are stronger. They can run faster, longer, just have more everything, better performance across the board by working out like around early afternoon, one o'clock, two o'clock. You're like fully acclimated. Everything's turned on and like all your systems are go. I would think I would think they also nutrition. Like you had some food. You probably have a meal or two inside you, which I would think makes the biggest difference. Yeah. I think that makes more of a difference than it actually being new to one when you're getting your lift in is that you've been up early enough that you've already had at least one, if not two meals. And so your body's fueled. Yeah. I know for me, it makes I mean my early afternoon workouts. If I want to hit a PR or I really want to like, you know, push it and see what I can do. I'm the best right around like a couple hours after lunch. So for me, it's around two o'clock.  I work out early in the morning just because that's when I can be most consistent, which also happens to be the worst time for performance. But it might it's consistent for me. But yeah, if I want to like lift heavy and train my hardest, it's around that lot of nostalgia there because that period it was between clients, typically you had that kind of break in the afternoon. Isn't that funny? That's true. And or when I was in school, that was when I had like, you know, break between classes. And again, my workouts were way different than they are today. But it's just you got to do you got to do to be consistent. Yeah, is that the best time for you guys still now? Oh, it's yeah, no, it's such a difference for me that it's hard for me to do the other other times. It really is. It takes a lot for me to be motivated to get up early in the morning, or it takes a lot if it's already like five, six o'clock, and I'm going to go out there and go get it. I really have to be on a kick where I'm like, I have a goal in mind that I'm trying to achieve. And I'm like, I've already committed. I'm not missing a day. Otherwise, I find myself talking myself out of it. If I can't make my noon noon to two somewhere in that range. And for me, it's been it's more about food. And I've noticed that from like, you know, training and tracking so much. It's like, oh, when I have two meals, I got breakfast and a lunch in me, I'm fueled up even just having breakfast and then say working out at like, say 1030 or 11, not as good of a workout. I need that second meal to really load all the way up before I feel good. Yeah. Now this next one doesn't really have any studies to support it that I could find. So this is going to be anecdote that I've experienced myself and I've also experienced training of the clients and just managing gyms. And this this is probably more true for a fitness fanatic. And that's to work out in a brand new place. I mean, of course depends on the kind of place but I know for me, if I when we've done shows where we've traveled and there's a new gym that we're near either there's that one in Reno we went to or there's, you know, Ben Pekolski's facility or there's that one, you know, powerlifting gym. I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head. It was in Texas. It was amazing. Maybe we can if someone can remember big techs. Yeah, great. We actually went in there to film.  And we all decided to work out that day, if you recall, because it was just a new place. It was different. It's exciting and fun. Lots of energy. It was very inviting. And yeah, it's it just kind of it brings new interest into the workout itself. And you kind of bring the fun back in. It's the novelty of it.  You had like memberships to so many different gyms. Yes, I totally would do that. If I was not motivated to go to one, I go to the other one like that. So and I different mindsets. I wanted to be in different ones. So if I was like it was a kind of a chill like I didn't this is didn't need to be an intense workout. It was more of like a recovery. I'm going over to club sport where the steam room and sauna a little bit slower pace than gym. If today was like I'm getting after it's a heavy deadlifting day, I'm going to go golds where all the dudes are lifting really heavy. And today's kind of touch weight kind of aesthetic stuff like that. I'm going to go over into my 24 fitness gym where there's a lot of machines and stuff. So I mean, I absolutely I love this along these lines and you didn't have it on your your where tips, but you could also throw in there changing the workout. I mean that that partially does it. And I think it's a new place. Yeah, a new place either a new place or a new workout gives you that kind of novel stimulus and just excited. Oh, it's something new. You know, it's just the same thing you get with anything that's part of it for me. When I work on a new place, I almost always do different exercises because there's new machines, different pieces of equipment. So I typically don't go to a new place and do the exact same routine usually changes things out for me. So that that's probably a big part of it. Here's another one. And I love this when I have this opportunity. I don't get it very often these days. You know, I'm a father of three kids. I have a fourth one on the way. Obviously we have this business. But when this happens to me, I frickin love it. When I have twice as long to work out as I normally do, I do the same work out. I just rest twice as long and I take twice as long. And I have some of my best work out. I love this. Yeah, no pressure. I love this tip because it doesn't happen all the time.  It's a Saturday. I'm going to get in the gym when it's not really busy in there. And I'd sometimes be in there for two to four hours, even break it up with like a shake in between to refuel a little bit, then go back at it. And it wasn't I was doing a ton of volume. It was just, I was taking my time in there. And it just enjoying the process of being in there. I think that in itself, I think, and because again, back to the kind of novel thing, I think you get from this too, because you don't get to do that all the time. I used to love doing this. But I also think it's the double rest periods.  Well, you perform better. Yes. That's just the thing. You're not battling any fatigue or any urgency to get to the next. It's whenever your body feels really ready to go again. So it's a nice change of pace. Now, the key to this is you're not working out twice as much. I want to be clear. Working out twice as much is not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is same sets, same reps, everything the same, except you're probably going to go heavier because you're stronger. Just take twice as long literally sit there and rest twice as long as you normally would and then watch what happens to your performance and watch how you feel the day after and how your body responds from that. All right. This next one's really interesting because they're really studies on, you know, what's called post activation potentiation or studies that show that going heavy and then do an explosive movement or do an explosive movement and then going heavy. This combination tends to activate more muscle fibers. So if you're somebody that's got some experience and you can do plyometrics, try doing five to 10 minutes of plyometrics for your target body part. And the way plyometrics work is you don't go to failure. It's not a fatigue based type routine. It's literally about how fast and explosive as you can be. Do five or six explosive, for example, push ups, then rest a few minutes and then do it again. Even if you can do 20, just do five or six and push as hard as you can. Then go do your normal controlled bench press. Watch how the muscles feel. The ultimate recruitment protocol, right? So it's like I can summon the troops as many muscle fibers as possible early on that you can then pull from throughout your workout. So it's a pretty interesting feeling once you, once you nail it down in terms of like being able to be explosive and then go into your strength training.  For example, like one of my favorite things to experiment with, I remember the first time I connected this was, it was like a day where I really want to get after pull ups and going and doing just one or two really heavy reps on like a deadlift and then go over and do body weight pull ups. Have you ever done that before? It's a tension. Oh, it's insane. It's insane how all this how light your body weight feels after you go pull something close to your max weight and you're not trying to do 50, you're not doing four or five sets. I'm just gonna do one or two sets of one to two pulls of a really heavy weight and then go over to pull ups and my pull ups. I just feel like my body weight. So I think it's similar to I think because what explosive reps do is you summon a lot of muscle fibers because of the force and the speed that you're trying to accomplish. But with a really heavy lift, you're doing something very similar, right? You're summoning more muscle fibers and then they're turned on. Then you go do your normal workout and you're just more connected to everything. So what I'll do with this is I like bands for explosive movements, bands or medicine balls. So what I'll do with bands for example, say it's back day as I'll take a good heavy band, put it on something that's anchored really well and I'll do five or six, you know, explosive rows. Now the explosive the explosive part is the pull I'm more controlled when I come back, but it's come back with the explosive row come back and I'll do like five or six of those. I do like two sets. Then I'll go do my normal rows and it's like everything is turned on. The pump is crazy. I'm stronger. It's really it's really weird. This reminds me it's it's kind of funny because just intuitively when I was in high school, I used to do this ritual before I bench pressed. This was when I would bench like the most was well in college, I benched more, but I used to do this thing that my friends used to make fun of me for where before I get down, I would do these really fast explosive movements like this. Yeah. And I was just literally like as fast and as explosive as I could because I just knew it feel it felt like I had more to give once I got to the bar. And so it was like pretty much like that intuitively you knew it didn't really interesting. All right. So the next look dorky the next one. Okay. The next one has tons and tons of literature supporting it's actually one of the more studied forms of resistance training. And that's isometrics. Isometrics are explosive movements. Great. They turn on lots of muscle fibers. The risk factor with explosives out movements tend to be high. Isometrics are strange because they activate the most muscle fibers and then they're safest because you're not moving. Now, how do they why do you activate so many muscle fibers? Because when you're pushing against any movable object, let's say I'm doing a isometric squat where I get into a bar that I'm not going to lift. I get in good position and I drive as hard as I can for five to 10 seconds. Because the bar is not moving, my body summons a majority of my muscle fibers, then it summons the rest as I continue with this isometric. Do that. Then go do your traditional squats and watch how you feel. This was a favorite amongst the Eastern Bloc nations during the reign of the Soviet Union when it came to strength sports. And it was a great way for them to and it shows in the studies you build more muscle, you build more strength. One crazy thing was you just feel so supported. Like if you start with isometrics, you're everything that is stabilizing, like at another level. And you're really in tune with your central nervous system and that same recruitment process you would get from doing an explosive movement. You're just doing it in a more controlled way. And then that that same kind of concept applies. But also I've just noticed even more so that my joints felt strong, supported, which allowed me to then shuttle out even more force. Well, especially when it's focused it focused on the target muscles that we're trying to really light up, right? That's it. I feel like it's more targeting. I feel like most people's experience with isometrics in the in the gym world is planks. Everybody has seen planks. Planks are really like and so people hear isometrics and like, I'm going to start doing planks again before my workout. There's nothing wrong with that. I think that's OK to do planks. But I think a very focused, targeted, isometric hold on something that you're getting ready to go activate and work is even more beneficial. And I would actually lump in this this part of the conversation are priming too, right? Would you not put that? Well, priming is is somewhat isometrics. That's exactly what it is, right? So when we are when we're priming the body to get ready for these workouts, that's what Maps Prime is and Prime Pro all about is is we're trying to wake up all those all those areas, right? Normally around a joint that we're trying to work on mobility and stuff. And but same concept of getting ready for that, right? Yeah. So like, for example, let's say you're going to work your back. One thing you could do is you could do a pull up where you pull yourself up and then hold yourself at the top and squeeze your back as hard as you can, squeeze your hands as hard as you can for like five to 10 seconds and then let go. There you go right there.  Watch how you feel, right? You just for biceps. I could take a preacher curl machine, curl up heavyweight, squeeze it as hard as I can at the top for five to 10 seconds. The idea is really to summon a lot of force.  It's your glutes.  Watch how you feel after you do that. It's a very interesting, strange feeling. You feel more turned on, more connected to the muscle that you're trying to target, especially when you do it in the shortened position. So one little thing I'd like to add to this is if you have a weak body part, like a body bar that doesn't respond, that's where I would place this focus. Isometrics before your traditional workout on your weak body parts is a great way to get you connected to those weak body parts, especially in the shortened position, shortened meaning fully contracted. So like it would be like a squeeze here for pecs or a squeeze here for rows, that type of deal.  That's a common one that I would help like a client who says they do squats and do the deadlifts, do these exercises that are great for the glutes, but feel like they can never feel it in their glutes. So getting that client on like a floor bridge and doing a squeeze or a hip bridge, right? And squeeze at the top really do an isometric hold for five seconds on the glutes. Do that a couple times and then take them over to the squat, watch how much more they have a better time. Two ways that I really experienced this before. One was overhead carry before shoulders. So I would take the kettle bells or dumbbells, put them up and above us, you know, straighten arms out really, really tall and then I'd walk, which is essentially an isometric for my upper body, right? And then I would go do my traditional shoulder workout and I'll stronger. I just was stronger in my lifts. The other one was a farmer walk. Farmer walk. Yes, you're walking, but a lot of it in the upper body, if not all of it is isometric. I'm holding and maintaining good posture and I'm keeping everything tense. Then I would go do my deadlifts or my rows or whatever. And I was just stronger. Everything was just more turned on. I got a better pump, you know, from from doing that. So the next one, this one's really interesting and that is to get cold before you do your workout. So studies will show that when you're when you're somewhat cold before your workout. Now you don't want to be cold during your workout because that makes things a little bit different. But if you go into a workout feeling a bit chilly and cold, you see because your body is able to regulate its temperature a little bit better, you see increased and improved performance and longevity. You can work out longer. Now, obviously, the opposite is we've all experienced.  Do you know what the research says on how much that affects it? Because I actually felt a dramatic difference in that when I first was introduced to cryotherapy. Oh, that's right. So when we first started the podcast was when cryotherapy was getting really popular and we had a friend that had had one. And I got the opportunity to use it. And I remember he was it was Dr. Brink, right, a good friend of ours. And he told me he's like, I was actually using it more like a recovery thing.   And I'm like, before, that seems weird. I was like, he's like, no, watch how you feel. Man, and I only got a chance to do it like a handful of times, like maybe four or five times. It feels like caffeine almost. It is I've the workout where they were some of the most amazing workouts I've ever felt. I mean, and I don't know if that's because of how how much it brings all the inflammation down, plus the adrenaline rush that you get from being super cold. Maybe it's the combination of those two things. I don't know what what the research says on why it's so effective, but that's to me, that's what makes sense. Right. You something getting super cold like that, you're going to bring down any sort of inflammation that you have going on the body. Plus you get this massive like energy spike, like when you go into a cold plunge because you're getting that cold and that adrenaline rush combined with inflammation down. I would not only do I have the energy, but my body felt good. Like I just I almost even though I'm cold. I felt warmed up before going into the workout. Well, I definitely have heard and we talked about this a bit with that study putting a sleeve over your hand that would cool you down. How weird was that? Mid competition. So it extended the ability a lot of these athletes had to then compete at a high level because they're regulating their body temperature and bringing it back down. And it was very much related just to their core temperature. Yeah. What was that? Do you remember? Andrew Huberman did the did a study. It was like a crazy. It is a great. It was like eight times more volume. It was ridiculous. It was dips, right? Body weight dips. Yeah, it was something that was way more reps. Yeah, way like eight times. Yeah, it wasn't it wasn't like three more reps. Yeah, yes. It was like a crazy amount of more that he could do by just simply putting his hand in that. So super fascinating. So yeah, I bet I'm sure and Andrew Huberman has. I think we still I know due to know we'd love to have more to explain this. Yeah, yeah, I know I know we have I know we have plans to I don't know when we are. But I mean that that was super fascinating. So I'm not even familiar with all the different mechanisms that are at work that cause it. I just remember firsthand playing with it and being like, whoa, this makes a huge difference. The only thing that I could think of was, OK, it's bringing down all the inflammation. Plus, I'm getting this adrenaline rush for my body being so cold. The combo of those two things one makes my body feel so good and recovered and loose and ready to work out. The other ones got my adrenaline going energize the combination of that just it resulted in incredible incredible work. I would agree with that. All right. The next one, this is, of course, some more of a psychological phenomenon. But that is to bring a workout workout friend. Now depends on the friend that you bring, right?  Yes.  I don't work out with workout partners for the most part. But I will say some of my best performing workouts were ones where the random rare occasion I work out with like two or three people, right? We're all working out together. We're having fun. A little bit of competition sets in and everything gets more exciting. And I feel stronger and I can push myself more in my performance. My performance just gets better.  That helps. Did they clap after every rep? Yeah, they're like, whoa. Cheering me on like, I'm just, you know, squatting. You know, I rag on the workout partner probably the most out of all of us because I'm big on solo working out. But I will say there is something that I do remember that I liked about having a partner. I actually like the timing of having a partner. It automatically kind of builds in like a really nice rest period.  I just go, go. The whole thing is go. Like it's like, I feel like, but your, your, your rest are built in because the other guy's got to go between and then you got to get ready for the set right afterwards. So it does present like a really nice flow and consistency with rest periods. Excuse me, having a workout partner. So I do like that aspect of it. I remember we haven't worked out together, except for maybe a handful, literally a handful of times. But there was early days. You guys remember it was a workout. It was at the place that you trained at. Yeah. Way back. We're in the grass and we were, and all of us were like picking exercises. So I think we, we like, we did some slag drags and I think that was just someone to do that. Of course, deadlifts. That's my favorite thing. And we were, we were doing different things and using bands and chains. And it was a really fun. No way I would have worked out like that on my own. So I'm pretty sure my performance improved. That was a fun one. Yeah. It was, it was a lot of fun. All right, this next one. What I, I, you know, I learned this as a kid just because my first, you know, gym or weight set was in my parents' backyard. Now it was in the backyard under like a patio overhang. Right. So I'm kind of outside, but kind of not. But then I remember, I don't know, this is early on, right? So it's like within the first few months of working out, it was sunny outside. It's in the summer. And I would take the barbell and I'd walk out to the sun on the lawn and I'd work out outside. And I loved the way that I felt. This goes all the way back to like Muscle Beach, right? Muscle Beach is one of the first well-known bodybuilding gyms. I mean, that place goes all the way back to the 1940s. It was on or maybe even before it's on Venice Beach and you had bodybuilders working out outdoors in the sun. And some of them said that that was their best workout. So I love sometimes, obviously, if the elements aren't too crazy, I love training outside. It gives me a totally different feel. And it does improve and help my performance. And I've done this with clients too. I've had it where clients come in and, you know, we've been working out for a long time or whatever. And I'll say, hey, meet me at the park. I'm going to take a kettlebell and a medicine ball. They sure there's a massive psychological component to it. You know, I love working out outside just because it just it brings this new energy, this new stimulus. And two, I think it's some about like the fresh air and the sun and all that that kind of it sparks movement for the most part. I think being like indoors without, you know, any moving air and under our artificial lights, a lot of times I can kind of dampen the energy and bring things down. I think even if you don't have the luxury to go train outside or there's not equipment out there, you don't have a kettlebell, whatever, I actually even think just going for a walk right before a workout, you can reap some of those benefits. Yeah, good point. So like something's really common here, right? So and today will be one of these days.  Today I'll stay in the gym and I'll workout. But we've been in here all day long and like just going out there. It's really tough for me to get into this. So I'll actually sometimes go walk our block like two or three times. Like maybe it's like a mile, you know, of walking outside, just a fresh air of the sun and that'll rejuvenate me and it'll prep me for my workout. And I swear I get more of versus if I just go out there right now and try to get into the workout, I won't have as good of a workout. So even if you can't train outside, I think that's a small hack in itself, especially if you have a job where you're like under fluorescent lights, you're indoors all day long, and then you drive to the gym, the gym is inside also, like actually taking a nice little walk for like 10 minutes outside absorbing the sunlight, fresh air go in. I bet you get a lot of studies on productivity because of the circadian rhythm and exposure to the sun, like they show that if you have a desk next to a window, so you get some sun exposure, you're more productive, you also sleep better. So you know, opening the sunroof in your cars or studies I'll show when you drive, opening the sunroof in your car will contribute to better, better sleep and better productivity. So it does make a big difference. In fact, my dream, I think I've told you guys this and you guys thought it was a great idea. My dream of one day if I ever own a gym just for fun, not to make money, but just for fun, would be to have a gym with a retractable ceiling roof. I would love to be able to hit a button, pull this pull the roof back, it's sunny outside, maybe in California like we are here and we could just work out in the sun. Watch out for the random bird that flies by. Yeah, that's the only thing.   Look, if you like our information, head over to mind pump free.com and check out our guides. We have guides that can help you with almost any health or fitness goal. You can also find all of us on social media. So Justin is on Instagram at my pump, Justin, you can find Adam on Instagram at my pump, Adam, and you can find me on Twitter at mine pumps out. How do I incorporate cardio and not lose muscle? Seeing people do this before where they'll start to lose the sharpness of their muscles or they'll start to lose the sculpt a little bit. And that's disheartening. But if you do it right, then you minimize that muscle loss or that metabolism slowdown. In fact, if you do it right, you can actually speed up your metabolism at the same time that you build stamina and endurance. You just have to be able to kind of program it properly. And the way to program it improperly is just to go and do it as much cardio as you can for as long as you can. Right.


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The first Scottish War of Independence is full of fascinating characters, from Edward Longchanks to William Wallace, Robert the Bruce to many others. Yet there is a figure in this war that is a forgotten hero. Wallace has a statue, Robert the Bruce has a visitor centre, yet most people walking down the street in Scotland today do not know who this figure is. Let me tell you more. Today I've taken you to Bothwell Castle, a medieval castle in South Lanarkshire that changed has numerous times between Scotland and England during the Wars of Independence. It was home to Clam Murray for a period as well as the son of the Black Douglas, Archibald Douglas, who married into Clam Murray. Construction began on this castle in the 13th century by ancestors of Clam Murray, and it is a member of Clam Murray that is the subject of today's video. This is the story of Andrew Dew Murray, otherwise known as Andrew Murray, a major commander during the First Scottish War of Independence who played a crucial role in the first phase of the war. In fact, without Andrew Murray, William Wallace may never have become the figure we know today.  In all seriousness, it was the unity of the forces of Murray and Wallace that became such a pain for England and led to Wallace's greatest victory on the battlefield. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Now, given that I'm standing here in front of a castle, it should hardly come as a surprise that Andrew Murray was from nobility. His grandfather, Sir Walter Dew Murray, began construction on this castle, and his family held lands in the province of Murray in northeastern Scotland, amongst other places, including Bothwell of course. Andrew Murray's father was Sir Andrew Murray, Lord of Petty, a Scottish baron who held the position of Just Stisher of Scotland, which was the most senior legal office in the High Medieval Kingdom of Scotland to the north of the River Forth and the River Clyde. His mother was a unnamed daughter of Lord John Comm and the First of Badanock. Although little was known of his youth, he probably trained to be a knight, learning military skills and strategy that would go on to serve him well in his later years. Resistance was undoubtedly in his blood. Both Andrew Murray and his father, Sir Andrew, fought at the Battle of Dunbar in 1296 for King John Belio. The Scots were defeated, however, and both Andrew and his father were captured. His father was taken to the Tower of London and died there as a prisoner in 1298. Andrew, however, was considered of less significance and was held prisoner at Chester Castle. Within a year or so, he managed to escape and made his way back to his father's lands in the north of Scotland. This was at a time when resistance was rising in Scotland. Violence was breaking out across the country against English rule, with the taxes imposed on the people of Scotland and conscription into the army being two main reasons for the outbreaks. As a chronicle from May 1297 states, the perfidious race of Scots began to rebel. In Central Scotland, William Hessellrigg, the English sheriff of Lanark, was murdered in May 1297 during an attack on the town led by William Wallace and Richard Lundy. In the north the same month, Andrew led his own uprising in Murray, raising his standard at Ork. News of Murray's actions drew supporters to him. Sir William Fitzwaran, the English Constable of Orkard Castle on the shores of Loch Ness, wrote to King Edward in July 1297. Some evil disposed people have joined Andrew Murray at the castle of Ork and Ross. King Edward I sent more detachments north to try and suppress the rebellion. Murray pushed on regardless, almost taking Orkard Castle from English hands. A report sent to King Edward describes how a very large body of rogues swept through the province of Murray towards the spey. Destroying the lands of Duffas, laid waste and captured the castle. King Edward tried to use Scottish nobles he had released from prison who he thought were loyal to him to suppress the revolt, although this had little effect with English officers suspicious that these nobles were playing a double game. Then in summer 1297 Murray faced a dilemma. King Edward proposed to release his father, Sir Andrew, from imprisonment in the tower to serve in the ranks of the English army in Flanders, if his son was prepared to take his father's place as a royal hostage. A safe conduct allowing him to come to England was issued under the King's seal. It is not known if this letter ever reached him, but if it did it was ignored, as his father died in the tower the following year. By this point England had lost control of large parts of Scotland. In September 1297 Wallace and Murray met at Dundee and joined their forces. They soon marched their army south to Stirling to meet an English army heading north. What ensued was the Battle of Stirling Bridge, a resounding victory for the Scots and a great piece of strategy from Wallace and Murray. They positioned their armies on the north side of the river forth and the narrow Stirling Bridge. Stirling Bridge is no longer here, but it was a narrow wooden bridge, with horsemen only able to cross to a breast. It literally would have taken hours for an army of thousands to cross the bridge. When the English forces finally crossed it meant that their army was split in two by the river, with the English soldiers on the north side trapped on the three sides by the loop of the river. Wallace and Murray waited until as many of the enemy had come over as they believed they could overcome. Then they ordered an attack. The English force on the Scottish side of the forth was obliterated, with a few hundred on the escaping by swimming across the river. It is estimated that around 5,000 English soldiers were killed in total. The English on the south side of the river retreated to Berwick. Murray said to have played a key role in the Scottish strategy at the battle. Andrew Murray was mortally wounded in the battle however, when a straight arrow was said to have pierced down. He died in the months after due to his wounds, although the precise date of this is not known. Two letters sent to the mayor of Lubeck in Hamburg, two of the leading towns of the Hanseatic League, suggest he survived until at least November as they were issued by, and note that Murray's name comes first. Andrew do Murray and William Wallace, leaders of the Kingdom of Scotland and the community of the realm. There is debate as the pythory was alive at this point, but regardless he died around this time. He lived a fascinating life nonetheless, and if he wasn't mortally wounded at Stirling, he may have changed the course of history, given his lineage, political connections and accomplishments. His son actually went on to marry one of Robert the Bruce's sisters, but that is a story for another time. Many have argued that if Murray hadn't of died after the battle of Stirling Bridge, then Wallace would have won what turned out to be his greatest defeat in the battle of Falkirk. But what is the truth about the battle of Falkirk? To find out, please click here. Thanks for watching, please subscribe and hit the bell, and I'll see you next time.


All right, well, let's check this out. I'm gonna play the whole thing All right You got notes for every shot here. So shot one I Leaned his body forward a bit and moved his body down for anticipation I also moved him forward a bit when he jumps All right, so forward and down for dissipation Hmm don't really see that So you have a bit of a lean forward. I guess It really feels better in terms of not just kind of Exploding out of that pose. There's a bit more proper mechanics to it. There are a couple of things about this first shot. So It's a bit tricky. So a couple of things here as you go this low, you definitely want to start dialing up your foot rolls It's just painful to watch when you have the shin so close to the foot. It feels like your Achilles heel is gonna pop and Blood is just gonna come out here So watch out for that. You definitely want to start adding Compression on the foot sideways roll and tilt just some Movement, otherwise it looks like this is cut off and this does are just IK feet doing nothing The other thing is on a jump you always want a full extension on your leg And this seems this seems a bit weak in terms of the force So you want to be further stretched out toes down And you can even have one more fully and then start have One leg to go back into this pose So they're not doing it at the same time. So right now this just feels a bit soft in terms of posing How he jumps off? I Think you could potentially I Will potentially try a higher pose with him with his butt So that he's higher up here that you have a bit more room for this arm, but it will also create Maybe hopefully a bit more negative space between the body the thigh and the arm So that there's a nicer silhouette with this hand here But it will also give you room to be if your butt is this high. So it's a bit of a That's probably too high. That seems more like a weird sitting But just maybe split the difference between this and this high So maybe the bodies around here I'm just trying to find a pose where you have room to go down and then jump so that he's in a pose goes Down leans forward and then jumps out there Foot roll extension on here This still seems a This hand could be a bit more relaxed the fingers could be a bit more straight on the index just a bit more relaxed pose This has a bit of a claw like pose to it But what's weird then is when you when you move Everything kind of moves at the same time So you have hands arms the whole body now given that this is a bit more realistic Yes, I mean you want movement everywhere because the movement realistically the body is always moving No, there's always some keep alive, but the thing is heck goes down Arm goes up body forward. It all just feels a bit too post-to-post starting at the same time so you want to do potentially Do you want to be in this pose and then his arms go up and then he leans forward Or do you want this and then maybe the head is a bit lower and he looks somewhere and then the head goes up Arms go up and then he goes forward or he's like this leans forward Then the head drags and then the arms you mean like you can pick whatever you want This is kind of depends on what you want to do in terms of acting But also stands out on why and why mentioning is because your arm is here your hands and then one too So with two frames you have this sudden arm shooting up here and then it stays put and it's almost on a straight Well, I can't even draw a straight line Here and then the arm it's kind of stays put over two frames two three frames And then it goes up and then over so it's just a bit messy in terms of spacing and arcs Just that whole beginning He still feels like he's been like there has been an explosion Bam And he just falls and goes ah ha ha ha like this seems like someone that's out of control with legs like this it just doesn't feel like a You know a person that's in control Where you have potentially Jump here and you want to you don't look down here And you can always still look at where he's supposed to go so imagine straighter legs cleaner jump Head potentially still looking here Wherewards his arms so maybe he jumps here and you do a roll so at this point You know his arms could still be again He could be like this arms could still be a bit higher one obviously offset and then or maybe even higher that he jumps up and brings brings up You know straighter legs body bit higher head looking this way An arms potentially a bit higher so then then you can swing them back So there's a a bigger feeling of he jumps up and goes soup and then tucks his arms under and that's the Momentum and inertia that he's using for that roll like right now. It just seems like he just kind of lazily jumping It's the kind of that has that same a bit of a lazy look and this is almost over cranked how far back your arms go So I'm since he's kind of jumping just kind of falling it could just be Jumping out again arms potentially out and then they brings the minge. I'm looking for something. That's just a bit more elegant and Purposeful where he seems in control and he's a bit more stylized And I'm not saying I can in terms of a cartoony pose, but just you know, it's spider-man's you want to have some more Spider-man he poses and this just feels Like that feels very straight with a sudden 90 degree angle. It's just and these arms are too far back It just there's a certain elegance. That's a bit missing But I'm especially reacting to this with arms so far back this and getting into this He just feels like again, he's just kind of falling versus I'm jumping with purpose and I'm not trying to roll like I'm doing the roll here So again, it could have a nicer line where the body is bit bends the head is bent here And then you can kind of potentially have the foot go through here and then maybe Well, that's a weird line here Then the leg could be in a more bent pose You know, you want to have a bit of a nicer line of action and this just seems a bit messy. So I'm still not Super smitten by this And it's a fast shot. It's just this seems a bit soft in terms of a jump. Just watching is in real time Feels like that could be a bit more power a bit more The more we snap out of this and this in real time going wait, what did I see? I just see flashes of these poses in real time So that's what I'm seeing for like, hmm, this feels slightly Too straight these guys and then the bent legs. It doesn't feel like he is like I said in charge of that pose It feels like he got shot So explosion right through there. That's kind of what I'm seeing here Shot to change your care and position and tweak this body not to look like a wooden piece moving in one direction Cool, I think you could potentially Tricky thing given that he's going off-screen. We could potentially cheat with the pose sync up meaning I Mean he's already on his back and then here. He is already straight, you know, up and down So it's already a bit of a cheat. So What's a bit tricky in this one is that there's so much movement from here to here and It feels Like he's not falling down. It might be because the camera's following it too fast. There's doesn't Leave the camera enough or the camera doesn't gain enough. It is something where he feels like he's stuck in space pivoting off of here Where it doesn't quite feel See this here this one I'm also reacting to so he feels like he's stuck in place. I think this big rotation out of his out of his pelvis area versus a Bit more the center a bit more of the chest area to me It feels like because he's not really just kind of moving forward I mean it could be centered here But the weird thing to me is that it's it's in one place and then shoot and then we're just losing him like how is he able To go forward so quickly right So this feels like he's stuck in place and the sun accelerates forward and then he does this like I don't mind this here from like here on This seems cool The only thing I would say is I would take the camera and tilt down and follow him more because now we're so close to the edge and we're leaving so much room here and this probably I It feels if you do the silhouette test there's a bit of a muddy silhouette which is kind of stumps coming out So you might be If you're already doing a swing here you could cheat and so that the head is here bodies here feet are here But maybe one arm letting go or both arms out this way So you see a bit more of the body for something that's a bit more like this Imagine a pose like this but reversed Because once we get to here, it's just kind of a ball This silhouette is not that clear and he kind of lost his forward Momentum with the feet going up and just kind of going straight. So this feels a bit weird too at the end But to go back to this here While he's doing all of this He needs to keep falling it feels like if this these are the buildings right and he's falling down that He's actually not falling is doing the whole rotation while staying straight and then he suddenly falls But you have to look at turn the physics of he is always falling always falling always falling always falling only by now Because he has the web through that is going to kind of stop and kind of bring his legs down That's why the legs go down too because that for momentum is being stopped by the the web and then that pulls them You know that changes direction then he can swing forward and Right now, but this doesn't quite make sense why he's doing this in place and then suddenly accelerating there So watch out for that Shot three I changed his body bit to a wall to avoid Twinning so they're a bit more offset. I think you can still get away with him being a bit here leaning this way and Then and then he lands around here ish Yeah, hold on. Hold on because we're saying I Mean, it's not crucial. I'm just looking at in terms of real space. He's going technically visually. He goes left or right Now we're kind of centered. It's not too bad but technically He's swinging from here to here And I know then it might feel weird going this way and this way I don't think it would be that confusing and I don't think people will go away. It's green direction but it feels like Just in terms of contrast and more interest and this is it's been a while since I've seen it So if I go back on a critique that I gave before Apologize but seeing it now it feels like you could get away with even starting here I will personally start just a bit more here and then land here So it's a bit more right to left again if that contradicts something as it before apologize It's just something that I feel you could push but it's not super crucial I think for this though in terms of posing legs are kind of I mean the height is definitely different But the width of it is a bit So it's kind of the same here then it's bit of a change there I think you can push this and again we can go from this here right where the legs are out and again I will bring it bring one leg further out than the other one and then as he swings in This could be swinging forward so that the legs are a bit more closed So then in terms of contrast I could see this being legs are actually together. So it's a nicer clean or more Elegant line so then you go from closed legs and a bit of a straighter clean line to all the way up here Where you can have whatever leg you want Right now you're having a screen right one screen right bit higher and this one just a bit lower So there's a bit of a bigger contrast of two legs down and one leg up. This feels like we're having Two legs somewhat apart within two legs somewhat apart just higher. I think that contrast could be pushed But the way your arms let go even though one is higher still fills a bit twins even this here we're a bit of a Too too much of a similar pose and they let go at the same time. So I would still push the timing and I wonder if through here You might have to recompose but I wonder if you can go on the longer lens a wider lens So that there is a bit more of a visual he's small and comes closer to us There's just something about him being pretty small and then still being pretty small Again, that's up to you It just was like the shock could be a bit more dynamic and if it comes a bit closer to us I think the distance scale difference from small to big And the bigger change in posing of straight to like a higher leg I think that contrast could be more interesting This is still cool So one two three four, I don't see anything here I still feel like this arm is funky so you're going from this line And now it's still either bring up that elbow or bring it lower, but you want a bit of an elbow break This seems like a kind of a short arm visually But see this he lands and goes Boom and as the arm goes down That's it And then he goes straight up in almost the same pose if you just look at the posing of this right arm screen right his right and screen right See this it just goes to win. That's it if you're landing. Oh, and this is a bit of an unfortunate Geometry you might have to cheat and take those vertices and bring them up just for a better silhouette that's my stomach but on This impact here I would Bring potentially the wrist up a bit higher set up. Oh, we can bring that wrist down a bit and then Bring that elbow down again. Maybe you want to bring that elbow higher and then down So that is not too much overlap between the leg and the arm But what I'm trying to get to here is that when he lands Like you want elbows down shoulders down So that when you do with this it doesn't feel like it's like even this shoulder up You're kind of starting shoulder up and then boom. It's always the same versus if you're doing like this where potentially As you go down. Oh, let's go back here Boom you have almost not a reversal, but that shoulder will go down it will go down You're up here and go boom you want to have that weight going on the gravity going on You want to change in the posing of his arm as well You want a bit more than just this down and then going up like this seems just really stiff and locked up shoulder up and arms kind of doing the same thing here, I think that's okay It's a bit fast in how it stops and then how soft the the residual action there is I I just see a big contrast of a lot of speed Suddenly stopping and then this move being pretty even meaning in a graph editor if how we just generally Show this it would be fast and suddenly slower but very linear in terms of timing versus Kind of he's in wow or may my go up and then go down a bit of a settle in his arms Just a bit more complexity there. I think it would be cool Venom I animated all of his rotation to XYZ's animated spider-man's hands and body a bit while he is staring at venom Alright Yeah, that's there. Sorry. There's not enough I see hands here and I see a dropping in his shoulders and arms even though they're both kind of doing at the same time And this feels like it. This is one big piece Just moving down. It just it doesn't feel broken up enough and the thing is you have a ginormous hands coming here This could even have a bit of camera shakes if he's if he's in this pose He will go maybe take a little step back or just kind of go back bring one arm forward one arm back Kind of just change and then brace for impact then This goes up here then again could have a subtle bit of a subtle change I was a bigger change subtle maybe in the room But something bigger in this area where maybe now it's a bit of a step back or or leaning forward and maybe a Readjustment and the risk going Getting ready like he's ready to fight. This is ginormous thing in front of him. So I think this could still be pushed and In venom As he goes up. I think once you have done this Or going up here this feels like well this hand is just kind of on here and then nothing versus There's my hand here your hand would do this and then as he goes up it would be Is it's the hand is up and tightening and then pulling himself up. So you want more You want more grip here more force then as he gets up So it feels a bit a bit Soft there This feels like it goes up in one axis stops goes in this axis here Now there's a bit more complexity there and now a bit kind of just one axis forward in the chest All the head does one and wise. It's a bit more complex, but it just it still feels a bit simple Right and you have to look at is he holding on to something or is he standing right so If he's holding on just that building you definitely have a grip here another arm So maybe just to simplify it He's just down and standing up holding on to this still but standing up so you can still play in terms of You know something where he rolls up and then shoulders down a bit of a sidestep and that's small It doesn't have to be like Moving away from the camera, but still a bit more complex and then shoulder and And then the heck going Something a bit more Threatening and right now it just flows more like This feels very tired These guys here, I made him run and punch venom at the end That is one still feels a bit funky hate to say it, but hey steps are very fast in terms of Not saying that he can't take small and quick steps right but in terms of super hero He just feels like Very quick like it feels a bit a big kid like So you could have And even that net Shooting out feels just a big casual And then that's it and then as he jumps Again, it's very magical. He just has He goes down anticipates as good right and then he pushes off But then during all of this there's no change in the upper body and the head just kind of floats forward He's done pulling himself forward with this arm. This leg is just kind of stuck He brings his arm back and there's something in the shoulder, but I'll probably I'm there something in the chest as well, which is good But there's no really an influence on the head the head orientation is always the same and that punch is kind of on the side And I don't know what that is. Is that now his fist or the chest? You know, there's something where he would be He's even this seems very default where I would bring one leg for one leg back So it's a bit more he's a bit more ready like this and goes back and then you can turn him And then you can take one two and a bigger down and then Like a bigger silhouette like change in the body and in the head orientation for the punch And then forward where the whole body changes and really punch the center of the screen So my camera it will be Into a punch into camera just seems all very very relaxed here So not not a massive fan of this But I think again has potential I would just kind of push the poses give this a bit more Hero pose at the beginning a bigger change In terms of upper body and the head especially when he's jumping You know, he could be standing like this gets ready down and then he leaves Is he leading with the head? Is he leading with the chest or is he? Wow is it exploding with his arm back is his arm leading for for a and dissipation into the punch You've kind of look at that idea of what you want to do here and even the Web could be the spider web thing could be he's getting ready and it's more like a bigger reach and then show and then get really big pullback for To get a swing for you mean it just feels like everything feels kind of timid I think you just pushed opposing more Alrighty, hope this helps. Thank you. All right. There's an email you can sign up You can start whenever you want you can submit whatever you want you get 16 submissions either way a like and subscribe would be awesome All right. Thank you


Hey everyone shiver 1000 here today, we're going to Tin up the tip on this Weller 60 watt 6.4 millimeter tip Got a new one because my old one doesn't doesn't work right it I think all it needs is a tip, but we couldn't find any tips so Like you said just just get you a new one for now So this is cheapest one I could find it was a 25 dollars It's got the little tiny tips in there that I need for other things I think I'm gonna be using this tip today. It looks like it's already tinned up So we may not have to Do anything with that But we're gonna try this out It's got what they call the halo Lights around it here. So this should help us working what we're going to do. Sorry about that shadow there But I got a light up here that um Just um It's behind the camera. So sorry about that Well, it's not behind it's above the camera, but the camera's kind of in the way of it That'll help any so we're just going to solder a few wires here I got a new stereo for monkey's truck. Excuse me Ah Alright, let's just skip to the intro real quick. Okay. Sorry about that. I'm back a little under the weather today I'm not sure what's going on but not for the Not for the Toyota but for the the SUV the Chevy Traverse We tried to put a stereo in it one other time and it just Nothing was working right This thing you have to have this this was working fine, but The end-to-end mounting kit didn't work and all that and I was like I just sent everything back except for that pack there But because that that makes your chimes work but I had a company reach out to me and wanted me to Do a video on one of their products and It needed a USB port and Ours don't have a USB port So I said, well, you know, that's alright. They said well, how about this? How about we send you this? So they sent me a stereo Let me grab it real quick for you here. So they sent me this It's an Android so The only issue with this is I'm gonna have to DIY The brackets to make it fit in there and it's not gonna go all the way in of course But it's going to come back up to here. So I ordered an end-to-end mounting kit It's also came with a couple brackets. It came with the camera It has GPS. It came with the GPS antenna Now I'm not gonna be showing the installation on that because it's just gonna be a Big bunch of me trying to figure out how to get this to sit in there and look nice But they sent me a couple brackets with it So I just gonna have to figure out a way to get this to fit in there. I Should be able to do something like that. I mean if I can go to car right a whole car I should be able to build something to Put a stereo in that car. But anyway So I said sure I'll try that out. So I'm gonna be doing that tomorrow. It's got a backup camera and Yeah, the backup camera came with it. So My buddy Dennis Just got one of these not too long ago. It wasn't one of these But he got a nice nice little Soldering iron and while I'm opening this I'll put that clip in right now Okay, some back I got this opened up while you was watching that clip Just gonna solder up a few wires here. I've already got the strip back and Pretty much ready to go. I've got my heat shrink on there on each one of them these ones I'm not gonna worry about right at the moment So I'm gonna see what's going on with this thing See if it's already Tend up or not. They give you a little bit of starting solder. I you know, I don't even know what it is but I got the Rosincor here seems to work well with the flux It's getting hot. We'll see I Need to get a sponge hang on. Okay. I got me a damp sponge over there. You don't want to wet. You just want to damp Tend this up anyway looks like it's already 10 It is Okay, so always do this in a wall ventilated area okay, so Let's start with the white wires here. So I'm just gonna What I usually do these are just Just follow the colors what I usually do. I'm gonna have to bring in here a little bit is uh, I Just straighten the wires out and try to push them in together When I you don't want to twist them yet Just put them in there until Until they go together. I know a lot of guys say you should twist them do all this stuff time in and whatever But if it's a wire, it shouldn't have that much tug on it You know what I mean, especially if it's a stereo up underneath your dash It shouldn't have Anything tugging on it. So I just kind of Just put them together wrap them together If you can it takes some time, but Or you can also wrap them up. I might not have Have it turned back enough. It's trim it back just a little bit here Maybe this without burning myself make it a little bit longer you can Probably just these wires are so so small. These are just the speaker wires something like that Now I'm gonna dip my solder into my I Got the paste Got the flux there now very nice There's that that one and that's that's pretty solid That's not that's not gonna pull apart if if you got something that can pull that apart guys You got too much strain on that wire anyway. So let this cool down. I think it's cool. Let's try to Slide our our heat shrink up over that There we go a Lot of guys will use this, but I don't like using that because sometimes you can melt through let me grab a Let me grab my lighter and a lot of guys like a wire this size. They'll use they'll use a big You know This They'll use something like that that size and that's just to me. That's too big I tried to get it to fit as snug as possible That's all you need now I'm gonna take this I Think I've shared this before Just heat it up doesn't take much heat guns the best But I don't worry my heat gun is and that wire is done All right, so I'm gonna speed you up and I'm gonna do the rest of these Well, you guys listen to some music. How's that sound? so let me All right, you guys see it all right problem is the more I zoom in the more I've got a scoot over Okay, all right, here we go guys and that's all there is to that You know, I might put some wire loom on there or just black tape it up Doesn't really matter You don't have to but I like to tape them up at least right in there, but um, yeah, so These wires I can't remember what that orange and white ones for I lost my instruction for that thing so can't remember Like these yellow is battery all the time Red is accessory from when you turn key on it's got power and then ground is as ground and They will hook into These three wires, I try to get the wires all the same length or you know, they're about I Hope monkey's got extra sponges But you know hey Man it just work goes so much easier and better when you have the right tools. So thank you monkey She said just You just want to get a new one. I'm like, well, you know mine works Some what I said, I think it just needs tips. Let's try to find tips. They had no tips at the hardware store And we wasn't going to you know run all over the place and just find some tips. So I said, yeah, let's just grab this it was like 25 bucks But Yeah, one Dennis has got Pretty nice. Like if you need something really quick You can just grab it and You're done. He's a little bit longer. We'll go ahead and do these two Got one might be long enough. All right all right, so And then a couple of these are for steering wheel controls key one and key twos your steering wheel control. There's illumination That back. I'm not sure if that's reverse or if that goes to the emergency brake And then your power antenna, we're not going to be using any power antenna, but I will be using the key one and key two, which is my steering wheel controls so Let's do our ground wire here. Oh Let's get We have to get our heat shrink here So what I do is I just cut them in half But since these are power wires Slide that up. I'll just go ahead and cut them in half Like I did the other ones I like to use a whole tube if I can but These won't slide up and I like to keep the The labels on for future references Not that this stereo is ever going to Once this is installed It's never going to come out because like even if we decide to sell the car or trade it in I don't pull parts off of stuff like that You know, like there was a couple things in her dad's pickup. I could have used When we sold it and she was like, well, just take it out. I'm like, no, no, it's in there It's standing there anything I put on the boat. It's standing there. I don't Strip the car down before I sell it. You know what I mean? And I did not Wow, okay You ever get the feeling you're forgetting something I'm trying to stay away from that thing. It's hot. It's 850 degrees. It seems to be Holdin steady But my other one keeps like cooling off and I think it has a lot to do with the tip You're sure you slide them back for far enough back But it is an old one. I think it's from the 80s Late 70s early 80s Probably late 70s. I think but All right Now we'll get you up here. Let's do this again And I just try to go until they're like I'll straighten that back out. There we go Like until they're about even to from The uh The rubber to the rubber, you know, the insulation to the insulation And just start twisting together. Like I said, usually I'll put them in Inside each other so they kind of fit like this And then twist them together like that, but I think these wires are just too small for that but All right, let's get these done And I'm going to call it a night Always do this in a wall ventilated area. I got a fan exhaust fan over there which Does exhaust just fine, but if I turn that on you guys won't hear me talking. Not that I'm saying anything really important here, but Sometimes you got to kind of go over it a little bit if you get a little too much solder on it That's why a lot of guys like to use the bigger Heat shrink, but I like to go as You know as close as I can To the diameter of the wire I may have to unsolder this and do this again because there's a big blob of solder there So so far this is the only one that's giving me any trouble That's not bad Out of this is what the ninth wire. So Now we're in there Then I feel if I can't see some sometimes you can see where the insulation is and where the wire is But then always feel and check and make sure I got it coverage real good coverage on it and this stuff don't take much. I know one day at work I was uh doing some wiring on a trailer I had to use this heat shrink and it just got I was working fine for a while, but I went in had lunch and come out and after lunch man, none of my heat shrink fit I was like what the hell's going on dumb in florida. I left the setting out in the damn sun and started shrinking up so it was good for small wires, but then I had to Send Zach or Jim out to get me some more I gave him the box and sit. Whoops and sit here. I need some of this I said what happened to it? I said it's heat shrink He said what's that do because he didn't know much about that stuff I said well when you get hot it shrinks up So you put it on a wire and once you get the wire together You slide it over heat it up and it shrinks around it so you don't have to use electrical tape. He's like oh, that's cool He says what's wrong with this stuff? I said nothing. It's too small for my wires. I left it sitting in the sun He goes I thought you was better than that He's a funny guy a lot. I love working there. I did man. Just you know Health issues come on get up here Just can't do that stuff anymore So I had to retire from all of it and you know, it's a it's a liability working around that stuff heavy equipment All that stuff, you know And something happened, you know, I had to hurt myself but more importantly You know, I don't want to hurt others so And now we're going to do Our accessory wire Perfect. Wow, that's so much nicer. Thanks again monk. I appreciate it Just get you another one for right now because I want to get a soldering station, but they're very expensive I can't afford one right now. That was funny Customer's always right. Well, that's 90 true The other 10% you just can't tell somebody something they're right and you're wrong and that's all there is to it So story time quick story time had a guy come in trailer breaks wasn't working on his boat trailer I said well, it's probably the master cylinder, you know, I didn't see any leaks and he said well Ain't no master cylinder on there. He says it's This is those are electric brakes. I said excuse me. He said a friend of mine told me those are electric brakes There's no master cylinder on here. So I think you're trying to screw me over.  Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.  You know, you take it to your friend He knows so much about it. Why why didn't you take it to him and have him do it?  I said he might be in there I said you go talk to Eddie talk that he's a little short guy.  He said why I'm just going to do that He was in there by five minutes and he came out and he said sir. Look, I'm really sorry. I said I told you get your trailer out of here and he said well That's what your boss told me. He said well, I'd like to speak to the owner. I said you just did He's the owner. He said oh Oh, well Okay, all you had to do was try to explain it to me. I said sir. I tried to explain it to you It's a boat trailer goes in water. You know, you don't have electric brakes You can't have electric brakes when it's submerging in water Oh, well, that's all you had to say so you didn't give me a chance You just kept telling me how your friend knows this and he's went to school and done all this other stuff He knows well, if he went to school, then he should know that you don't put electric brake system down in water I see you go have him do it about two weeks later. He come back.  Well, my friend said That the battery's bad and that's all it needs is a battery Fine, I'll say your battery. I'll put your battery in here. But I said look look at the tester. It's not wrong The battery's testing fine. It's the alternator. Nope. Nope. It's a battery. Put a battery in it Put a battery in it. He come back the next day. It still won't start Battery's going dead. That's it. That's a crappy battery. I said no, I told you it wasn't the battery It's the alternator you want to argue because your friend said it was the battery It was battery terminals. I did all that which they were fine and they were the battery was fine His battery testifying his battery terminals were nice and clean. Well, they need to clean the little bit But they wasn't you know, they were fine I told you you need an alternator. Well, how much is that going to cost him? I told him I'm just going to take it somewhere else.  Whoever told you that take it then. Why aren't they fixing it? Well, they don't have the tools Well, if they're so knowledgeable on this stuff, you would think they would have a set of tools Yeah, you know to drill a couple holes and put you some lights on a trailer, you know Whatever the case may be, you know, it was like Well, I had this guy in here His light was all corroded inside I said, look man. I said, you know We charge $70 an hour. It's going to take me an hour to try to clean that out And then it's probably still not going to work I said, we have a kit. I don't want to buy your kit right there. You're trying to upsell me. I said, no sir I said, I'm not trying to up say I'm telling you the kit It's 40 bucks Okay And I'll charge you a minimum of $35 of putting it in, you know Well, that's the price of an hour of yeah, but you still want to have crap This comes with all new wiring and everything For the same price as what it's going to cost me cost you to have me fix this one That's not going to last six months, you know Just fix it. So I did I did I fixed it end up costing $127 Guess what almost to the day six months later. He come back complaining that light broke That light's not working anymore. And I wrote it down I wrote it down on the work order, you know, customer customer refused to buy new Wanted it repaired Against tax advice And uh, Brittany that was the owner's daughter She brought it up. I walked in there with him. I said, hey, Brittany, can you bring this up? And I told her what it was for he gave him her name and everything she brought it right up and said, uh So what seems to be the problem, sir? Because she had the ticket in her hand Fixed my light six months ago and it just quit working again Hmm She's reading it. Yeah, you're right. He did fix it six months ago and she goes, hey Marty Why did this light quit working? I said because He wanted me to repair his old one instead of putting a new light kit with new wires and everything in it Which would have been you know around half the price all together and He said no, that's not true He told me he wanted to fix that that he could fix it cheaper and she said what's that say right there, sir And held it up to him. He grabbed it and looked at it and threw the paper down and said, all right Give me the light the the harness kit and go ahead and put it on because first of all, I can't get to it today I'm swamped. You know, it's 3 30 in afternoon. We close at five. I'm not dropping everything to take care of you Yeah, but I'm a previous customer. I don't care you went against what I told you Okay, I said now If you can bring it back into mar 10 o'clock in the morning, I'll get on it If you're here 10 o'clock in the morning, I'll be right on it It's going to take me 30 minutes and you can be out of here. Well That's not good enough. That's totally unacceptable.  Wait a minute. I said no no get it out of here Take it to whoever you said that can fix that like take it to them And he tried to bring it back the very next week and went through johnny And I came in I just happened to see him there. I said johnny Well, you know I'm writing up this work order for you. I said don't write him up I didn't kick him out of here last week And I explained to him and he was like, look, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I was wrong. You guys were right I'm sorry johnny said ain't gonna cut it.  Well, I'll call the owner Johnny said here. I'll do it for you. He got got him on got eddie on speakerphone And uh, I said eddie. It's morty He said what's going on morty because I never called him I said remember that guy came in last week. Oh, yeah, when did you fix that late? He's back, huh? I said, yeah, he's staying right here. You're on speakerphone.  I'm done, you know, when you Especially safety issues somebody brings something in Want me to patch something, you know, can you patch this frame?  So anyway, not really a rant. Just kind of a story time. All right, so That's that the other wires. I'm gonna have to hook up once I get up in once I get everything up in there Um, like the steering wheel control wires I'll do that once it's up in there and once I get this it should be programmed because um I I had this up in there before and it worked fine. So So it should already be pretty much programmed to that truck because it was in that truck once Like Like this is a steering wheel control.  It's supposed to be your steering wheel controller. You plug it in and you're done No, these are never work. So what I'm gonna have to do is hook this one up here this blue one with the yellow and I think I can just do the Key one and key two wire them into that and that that should do the steering wheel controls, which I don't even know why I'm worried about it because Monkey don't use them. She says I keep forgetting they're there. I don't use them Worse comes worse. It's no big deal because she don't use them But I like to have things working that's supposed to work. So all right guys. So Uh, yeah, I'm gonna give this a two thumbs up so far Longevity, I don't know next time I plug it in. Maybe it won't even get hot. I don't know But right now it does get a two thumbs up. It's 25 bucks plus tax less than 30 dollars, you know You can get you a decent little thing. Um, let's get check out Dennis all backer channel and monkey 1000 So guys, I appreciate you watching. Thank you so much Like I said, I'm not gonna bring in along with me on the install that because I'm not even sure exactly how I'm gonna do it Yeah, and I might Find a place to hook a couple springs up and pull it up the springs up and then I've done that before It's nice tight springs and hook on to the back, you know, like your Your brackets hook on there and then it'll pull it in holds it nice and tight But uh, yeah, I see this is the chime This is the main reason why this box I have this box is for the chime, you know for the backup Uh, it's even though it's going to have a camera. I still want the backup sensors working, you know That beeps when you get close to something But the camera will be nice, you know backing up to the bow Backing up to our new tent. That's going to be nice That was real nice. I just got stabbed with a piece of this copper wire. All right, so I'm going to clean up a mess here And again, thanks monk. I appreciate it and thank you guys for watching Hopefully your weekend is going well. Hope you have a great night and a great day tomorrow We'll see you guys in the next one. Shea bearer the myth man legend gone for now We'll see you in the next one. Bye. Bye guys and take care


Here at Fly Shark you have a new TV box with Amlogic S905 with all these ports around there and an interesting TV box design and this is a quad core ARM Cortex a53 the Amlogic S905 and you have two different colors yes we have one color in silver and the one color in black and this is the private model private design you make this cool design and we can see under yeah you can see how it looks there right so with all this stuff in there and how much it costs this is 46 $ with two gigabytes of RAM and 16 GB can we see the box okay and let's look on the back here's all the specs it is the support the double Wi-Fi for 2.4G and 5G and also support the instrument yes 1000 this one also the 4k 60 HEVC so all this stuff and Mali 450 5-core all right so let's see it boot up open yeah open we need to power on so 46 dollars yeah here also have the digital display nice oh you make this yeah yeah we made this okay then the UI is a little bit like this so it's nice front display yeah it's 905 okay let's try some 4k video yes and this is a file browser so smooth 4k playback 46 dollar MOQ minimum order one piece okay cool good that's the 4k standard


This week's INMPI is from ST, Lydia, what is this week's new product introduction? That's right. ST Micro. This is an interesting new sensor. This is an accelerometer, it's the AIS25BA, I want to also mention that this is the automotive version of the LIS25BA, so there's two versions that work pretty much the same. And these accelerometers, that you configure them with I2C, but the data comes out via TDM. And they're designed to be low noise, high bandwidth, they're triple access, and yeah, it's interesting. They basically go up to basically 4G max, and instead of getting data the way you normally would with an accelerometer where you basically query it over I2C or SPI and you get the data that way, or maybe it's analog, the data is streamed out for you automatically over a high speed TDM interface where you can clock it at multiple kilohertz, and it's designed to go into an audio subsystem, which is like, I was like, what's up with that? Why would such a thing be useful? This is the datasheet, so this one again, this is the AIS version, it's designed for use in automotive. It's got ultra-low noise density, it's a 1.8 volts interface, by the way, which isn't a big deal, but just FYI. And it's designed to have ultra-low frequency response from DC to 2.4 kilohertz, so 2.4 kilohertz is kind of like the cutoff where they're expecting you to stream data out of, you control it over I2C, and then of course you get, like I said, TDM output 8 to 24 kilohertz, it's time division, that's TDM sense for time division multiplex, you're going to get the X, Y, Z, and other data out. So again, what is this useful for? So this is kind of interesting, so the idea behind this is that you would use this for noise reduction or noise cancellation for recording, because usually you record with a microphone, and a microphone takes audio waves going through the air, and it flexes a thin piezo element or a MEMS element, converts it into a capacitive or current or voltage measurement, and that's how you get audio out. The problem is that, and just we're doing the show, and so this is something we deal with, it's really hard to get only the audio you want without the background noise you don't want, it's like there's a lot of work involved in it. And especially if you're doing automotive, right, we mentioned this is the automotive version. Cars are extremely loud, and you're trying to maybe use a voice assistant or you're talking on the phone, you're fighting all this background noise, and what's interesting about this idea that ST, I don't know if they invented it or they just have products for it, but you use the accelerometer to do the vibration detection for the low, the DC zero to again about two kilohertz vibrations, and you use that instead of the microphone, and so you don't end up getting the acoustic noise, and you cancel it out, and if there is noise that comes in from the low frequencies of the vibration, you can either add it or remove it or perform some sort of filtering so that you can, you don't get that, especially in those low frequencies is where you're getting a lot of acoustic noises, and microphones usually are not as responsive. So yeah, so the idea here is that you still need a microphone, this is not a microphone, but because it's TDM out, you can basically shove it directly into your Kodak, your DSP, your chip, your microcontroller, your microcomputer, perform some basic filtering on it, either like low pass or high pass, add or addition, and use that to get better audio output. And we have a video that will show at the end that actually it shows how nice the waveform looks when you remove the audible noise that you would not get through the vibration detection of the LIS or the AIS-25. So the chip is the standard 16 LIS style GPIO, but again, they don't have SPI, instead they have TDM output or input, you put in the bit clock and the M clock for the, sorry, the word clock and the M clock and the master clock and the B for the bit clock. You control over I squared, see what data you want out and the formatting. It comes out as 16 bit TDM, I think up to eight channels. I think maybe, yeah, here it shows you, you can decide, you know, which frequency range you want. You can set cutoffs, you can do over sampling, whatever. You can get the ODR data, X, Y, Z, it comes out as TDM, and then your your codec is going to have to take that and then do something with it. But usually once you get it, like if you have a powerful enough back controller on my computer, once you get the data in in this like I2S like format, it's very easy for you to perform audio calculations on it. I'm just mentioning that the accelerometer is just accelerometer, it doesn't do the math for you, but it just gets you the data in the format that you can then perform math on. So, yeah, you can, sorry, there's six, sorry, there's eight slots, I think. There's six slots. You can decide which ones you want on what axis. And then, you know, again, they have some example code for, I think STM microcontroller, you know, if you download it for their dev board. But honestly, I would probably plug this into something like a Raspberry Pi computer, something that can really do the analysis for you and do the filter cutoffs. For the iSquad C control side, you know, they do have a driver. This is kind of a generic C driver.  And the best part is it's in stock. Available at Digi-Key. Yay. That's right. It's in stock. There's 490 at the time of this, this printing. Yes, there's no eval boards right now. I would have picked up a val board and I'd try it out. But do check out also, again, the LIS25, which is the non-automotive version. I think the thing that we first of all, this is interesting because I'd never seen Acceleron with TDM output. And I was like, why would you do that? But then once I saw the demo and I read about it, I was like, oh, this makes a lot of sense. It's definitely, you know, as we're seeing, you know, we've talked a lot about AI and audio interfaces. You know, one thing that I've noticed is a lot of companies are trying to get away from having mechanical button and knob interfaces and go with audio interfaces because they're upgradable. They're programmable. They don't get dirty. They don't get loose. You don't have to worry about people looking.  The problem is that you are if an audio assistant isn't 99 percent accurate, it's incredibly annoying. Like they have to be so good or it's very frustrating for people. And it's even not possible because there's humans involved. So I saw that the studies that have come out that it's a better UI for many things to have physical knobs. So I think it's like the middle path is the way, once again, like some stuff makes sense for probably voice control, but some stuff should probably also have a tactical knob. Probably can do a little bit of both. Yeah. That said, you know, this was definitely I can I can sort of tell like this is designed for some car company that they were like, we want audio interface, but we want to do the noise cancellation from the vibration because it's like you're driving on a highway and it's just like, er, so. But I think it's going to be very useful for other, you know, anyone using recording or voice, especially with. Or doing actually another interesting use case for this would be if you wanted to do like predictive maintenance type projects where it's like you have a device that's vibrating like a compressor, like this is a common thing, the compressor. It's like what starts it starts making a weird noise, right? But then how do you determine what that weird noise is and how do you get the audio sample? Using the vibration could be nice because then you won't you won't be affected that it won't be affected by outside acoustic noise. So there's a couple of cases I like the idea of like it streams in as audio comes in as three, you know, three to nine channels and you tweak it. That way the elevators they take any time it's about to break down. It always sounds different. Yeah, that would probably be a good news. It's interesting that, you know, it's we forget that accelerometers and audio are actually measuring the same thing. This one does a surface when one does it in the air. Anyways, we're going to distract. But check out this very cool demo, which I like that they had audacity so you can really see the effects of the LIS 25. Ordered by the accelerometer and the audio is recorded by the onboard microphone. In this PC GUI, you see the individual part of each of the sensors, which is the microphone on the top. You see in time and frequency and then the accelerometer in time and frequency. What we're going to do in order to deploy the system is we're going to take the lower portion of the spectrum up to two kilohertz from the accelerometer and the higher portion of the spectrum from the microphone, as you can see in these two diagrams. We are going to combine them into a single audio signal where the gain acoustic gains of the two sensors have been equalized and recombined them into the output that gets generated as output of the system. So now let's try to record the audio coming from the demo. So we turn on this recording system where we see two channels. Actually, one represents the audio as recorded by the single microphone. Another one represents the audio recorded by a combination of microphone and accelerometer. So let's try to listen to each one of these recording in order to understand the improvement in quality. I'm going to split the two signals into individual tracks so that we can listen back to them. Now, if I turn on this bottom track and I play it back from the loud speaker, you can hear a very disturbed audio that represents what you would get using just a microphone with no further processing. If we listen to the other track, we can hear the output of the actual system, which is clear voice with no of the noise you were hearing previously.