The abstract summarizes the main points of the paper. The introduction provides background information about the topic and explains why it is important. It also introduces the methods used in the study. The methods section describes the approach taken by the authors to conduct the research. The results section presents the findings of the study. The conclusion summarizes the key takeaways from the research. This article was authored by Erin Arborish-Blakene, Soyang Kang, Petrina Henriksen, and others.


I'm not a fraud. I'm not a criminal who defrauded the entire country and made up this fictional character and ran for Congress. I've been around a long time. That's newly elected New York Congressman George Santos apologizing after getting caught lying about where he went to high school and whether he graduated from college and where he worked after not graduating from college and whether he's Brazilian or Jewish and whether his grandparents actually fled the Holocaust and whether his mother died on 9 11. Santos is an extreme case but resume padding is nothing new in Washington. Who can forget Senator Elizabeth Warren's fraudulent and ultimately apologize for claims to Native American heritage. I am not a person of color. I am not a citizen of a tribe. She apparently even plagiarized the Cherokee recipes she contributed to the 1984 cookbook called Pow Wow Chow. There's folks like Senator Dick Blumenthal of Connecticut who lied about serving in Vietnam during a tight race but well you know really didn't do anything wrong right. I may have misspoken. I did misspeak on a few occasions. And of course there's President Biden who dropped out of his 1988 presidential bid after getting caught lying about his undistinguished academic record. Graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school and 165 credits only the 123 credits. Biden now concedes he did not graduate in the top half of his law school class that he does not have three degrees from college and that he was not named outstanding political science student. Incredibly he even plagiarized the life story of a British politician whose families were coal miners.  When politicians invent accomplishments and lie about their past it reflects poorly on their character and it shows a willingness to cheat in the pursuit of power. But the most harmful falsehoods that politicians tell aren't about the scholarships they didn't win the wars they didn't fight or the discrimination they didn't overcome. They're about the laws they pass. Consider last summer stupendously misnamed Inflation Reduction Act which the president announced would shrink the budget deficit and reduce rising prices. This bill this bill will reduce inflationary pressures on the economy. This bill will in fact reduce inflationary pressure on the economy. Even outlets sympathetic to Biden weren't buying that. What the bill actually does is create a vast number of tax breaks and incentives aimed at greening the economy. It raises taxes enough to reduce the deficit by around 300 billion which is just 2% of planned borrowing over the next 10 years. It does nothing to reduce our 30 trillion dollars in debt. Who's loaning the U.S. government those funds the federal reserve mostly which pays for all those treasury bonds by printing money out of thin air. The principal cause of inflation. When he took office the 10-year deficit was expected to be 12.2 trillion dollars. By the end of his first year it had climbed to a projected 14.5 trillion. He's also misrepresented his record on job creation tweeting in September that right now I have the strongest record on growing manufacturing jobs in modern history. As the Washington Post Glenn Kessler pointed out Richard Nixon beats Biden handily on that count with 1.3 million new manufacturing jobs back in the early 70s when the country was a lot smaller to Biden's 630,000. Biden also promised that he would end his predecessors use of title 42 rules to keep migrants from Latin America from entering the country while seeking asylum here. His flip-flop on that has alienated even his most ardent supporters. Of course Joe Biden hardly invented political line especially among presidents. Indeed his predecessors in the Oval Office lied about everything everywhere all at once, healthcare policy, pretexts for war and sex. I did not have sexual relations with that woman Ms. Lewinsky. From newly minted congressmen like George Santos to the president we've come to expect and maybe even accept that our politicians are going to lie about their resumes and their personal lives. That is totally unacceptable but it's the lies about their policies that we really end up paying for and that we really can't afford.


So let's suppose Bob is standing here in his frame and he sees a rock go flying past. Now he measures the speed of the rock to be ux,b. So the x is to tell us it's in the x direction and b means it's Bob's measurement. Now Alice is in her frame here traveling with some speed v. What does Alice measure this speed to be? What is ux,a? So speed is distance divided by time or delta x over delta t. So in Alice's frame we have ux,a is delta x,a over delta t,a. So here we substitute in the Lorentz transformations. So this doesn't look very helpful, but now we divide the top and bottom of the fraction by delta t,b. And we get this. Now delta x,b on delta t,b is ux,b, the speed of the ball in Bob's frame. And so we arrive at this. Now let's have a check if this is correct. What happens in everyday life if the velocities involved are much smaller than c? Well in this case the denominator reduces to one and we have ux,b minus v, which is what you'd expect. If you were running away from it at speed v, you'd see it's being reduced by v. So long as you're not traveling fast enough to see relativistic effects. So what we call this is the longitudinal velocity subtraction formula. So what do I mean by that? Longitudinal just means Alice's velocity is in the same axis as the rock's velocity. They're both along the x-axis. And it's velocity subtraction because Alice is moving away from it. Now what about the velocity addition case? If Alice is running towards the rock. Well in this case the derivation is exactly the same except now v gets replaced with minus v. Finally what about the transverse velocity? This means the rock is moving at 90 degrees to Alice's motion. So we need to add the Lorentz transformation for y and speed is distance divided by time. Delta y over delta ta. So just following along with what we did earlier, what does this give us?


Hello all, welcome to the course. Economic agent and society, they always face the problem of unlimited want and limited resources. The major issue what they face that how do they allocate the scarce resources into the unlimited want. Economics is all about this, how do we take a decision or make a decision based on this scarce resources into the unlimited wants. There are two branches of economics, one is micro and second one is macro. The focus of this course is microeconomics. Microeconomics is the study of individual unit and their business. In this case we typically take the talk about the individual firms, individual producer, individual consumer or the price or the ways or the income. Microeconomics is the economics applied for business decision. The spatial branch of economics, bridging the gap between the economic theory and the managerial practice. The root of managerial economic spring from microeconomics theory and this is microeconomics theory is the study of how direct scarce resources in a way that most efficiently achieve the efficient managerial goal. Managerial economics has the close linkage with the other subjects, say economics with psychology, mathematics, accounting, management theory and statistics. Managerial economics integrate the concepts on the subjects and try to use them along with the other tools to apply to the business decision making. In this course there are four models, the first three models will try to understand the basic concept and the tools associated with demand theory, consumer behavior, theory of production, theory of cost and in last model that is in model four in market structure we will try to integrate and see that how this concept and tools are being used for profit maximization by the manager. Also we will do some pricing model like your king demand theory or price discrimination or price leadership and some product pricing models. Finally we will see how the game theory is being used for the business decision making. This course attempts to make you understand the basic concepts of economics, the economic theory, economic principles and how these are being used for the managerial decision making.


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Watching movies and reading books about our favorite wizards is already amazing and fun in its own right, but there's actually a lot of psychology found within the Harry Potter stories. Psychology is everywhere, even at Hogwarts. Here's 10 psychological lessons from Harry Potter. 1. The Hogwarts House System can enhance the social tribal effect. When groups face prejudice, their bond may become stronger, though this isn't always a good thing. There's quite a bit of prejudice against some of the houses, Slytherin in particular. If they feel the psychological weight of it, they're more likely to stick together and create an us versus them atmosphere, making them very loyal to their group. 2. Dobby inspired a psychological concept. The beloved Dobby actually has a concept named after him. The Dobby effect, coined by Nellison and Zelenberg in 2009, is when people overcorrect themselves, rightfully or not, after committing a wrong. This can be a good thing, as it encourages us to be moral, but the Dobby effect shows that it can be harmful too, when experienced in overly large proportions, causing people to invoke self-punishment. 3. Harry Potter shows signs of PTSD. Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, occurs after experiencing a traumatic event, such as witnessing a terrorist attack, getting kidnapped, or suffering from childhood abuse. When you think about what Harry has to go through in the Dursley household and during the Second Wizarding War, it's not surprising for him to exhibit traits of PTSD. Some of the symptoms he displays include reliving events through nightmares or flashbacks, having difficulty talking about the traumatic events, and feeling irritable and jittery. 4. Rita Skeeter is a metaphor for anxiety. Anxiety often turns relatively simple things into large, scary problems. Rita Skeeter, the gossip columnist, does the same, twisting tiny details into massive, over-exaggerated headline stories that have no truthful basis. 5. Ron Weasley suffers from arachnophobia. As spiders continuously show up through the series, Ron confesses that he'd rather follow the butterflies. 6. Voldemort starts showing serial killer tropes from a young age. There's an entire arc of the series dedicated to building a psychological profile of Voldemort. During Harry's private lessons with Dumbledore, they sift through memories of people who are connected to Voldemort. Some criminal stereotypes they find include his loner nature, bullying tendencies, strong sense of superiority, and lack of empathy for living things. 7. Draco's journey shows that nurture is in everything. We don't always turn out the way we expect to. Draco, undoubtedly, has done some nasty things, but who would have guessed that the childhood bully would turn out to be quite mature? He manages to move beyond the prejudice he grew up with and throws Harry the Wands at the end of the series. It's a very interesting character arc, and you can't help but feel a little emotional. 8. Cognitive dissonance can put a whole society in danger. When Cornelius Fudge denies Voldemort's return as a result of cognitive dissonance, the wizarding community is put in danger. Cognitive dissonance is when someone has two lines of thought that contradict each other. In this case, Fudge has been working tirelessly towards peace and safety, yet there are signs of Voldemort's return, causing him to come to hysterical conclusions. Consequently, the community loses valuable time they could have used to prepare for confrontation with Voldemort. 9. Sybil Trelawney exhibits signs of generalized anxiety disorder. Divination professor Sybil Trelawney is always jittery, thinking of disastrous scenarios, and in fear of being judged, all red flies of generalized anxiety disorder. 10. Social or one-way interaction with fictional characters can help a healing process. People often state how the deaths and subsequent grief throughout the Harry Potter series have helped them deal with their own grief. Others can describe the series as relatable, comforting, and empowering, especially with the support of various character quotes. Which of these Harry Potter-related psychological lessons did you already know about, and which ones did you find interesting? Are there any others you found that didn't make our list? Feel free to share in the comments below. If you enjoyed this video, be sure to check out our website and other social media, as well as our new Patreon account for more content. And don't forget to subscribe. Thanks for watching!


Good morning, John. It is one of the days. For you, it's Friday. For me, it could be any of the major ones, any of the major seven of the days. So there's this young guy. I started following on TikTok after I got cancer, because he was talking about his cancer story. And he's still posting videos, but he also died? So that's- And the videos aren't like, I'm dead. And they're just like his normal content. There is like, funny videos. So I don't know whether he's scheduled to knowing he was going to be dead or not knowing that. But either way, it makes you think.  I don't know if that's the right way to say it. One of the side effects of not having cancer anymore is kind of a bonus. I'm a universal donor, O-negative. So I always feel guilty whenever I'm not donating, but I don't have to have that one anymore because they will no longer let me donate my blood. So freedom. I'm free of that one.   Like it's that you're Dungeons and Dragons character, you're rolling for charisma and for strength and stuff. That happens for all the hair. Now you don't get to choose what you roll, but you do re-roll.  If you had hair, you might be bald, but we'll lose their gray hair. They'll gain gray hair. They will become ginger. Like this is not like lining up with how I understand these things are supposed to work. And I haven't found any research talking about how it works because it doesn't seem like it matters that much.  Having re-rolled my head, I now appear to have less head hair. I'm more bald, I think. I'm going to be more bald than I was. Now it might be important for me to say here that I have traditionally been the kind of guy who could like get on a first name basis with like all of his facial hairs. I've been mostly okay with this. I've attempted to do the goatee thing two times. Outcomes, not fantastic, but now I might kind of be able to grow a beard.  That looks like nerdy Jason Statham. You weren't thinking that. No one was thinking that. I find myself staring at beards like I was at a housewarming party and I got like really quite close to a friend of mine who's more like a former colleague than a friend. And I was like, oh, I'm just looking at how your beard hair grows in. Does I don't know how that works? Like do you have longer or more or darker or thicker hair than me? Like what's it going to be like if all of this hair grows in? Am I shaving correctly? I'm not really. I think I went too high. I'm over here like a 43 year old man asking like teen boy questions. Like is it normal for it to be itchy? I've never personally been super worried about my facial hair situation, but this does make me concerned because I know that there are a lot of guys who work really hard to try and get facial hair and I'm worried that if they find out Kimo can do that, they will find a way to start getting Kimo. And I just don't want to see Kimo beard trending on TikTok. I think that we all kind of get to keep posting after we're gone. Not like on TikTok necessarily, but in a way, right? You know all the words I'm saying right now are words that some person that we've forgotten came up with like culture and thus I am made up of millions of tiny little influences from people that I don't know about. I can never know about. We'll never know about. Like me making words and having thoughts is kind of them all still posting. What a thing to get to be a part of. Another weird side effect of getting done with Kimo therapy is ocular migraines, which have not been fun, where I see like a little light show before I start getting nauseous and my head starts to throb, but they don't last very long for me. So that's something, I guess, to be grateful for. And then of course the last of the most interesting side effects are all psychological. We've got you know health anxiety and I thought, I thought, I honestly did that my work anxiety would help distract me from my health anxiety, but it turns out at least so far that's not how it's worked. Like I get work anxiety and the feeling of the anxiety triggers my health anxiety. Why does it work that way y'all? And also I didn't think that this would happen to me, but I have a little tinge of the survivor guilt. I feel like I don't have any like space to talk about cancer because it didn't hurt me enough. And I know that that's irrational, but so are a lot of my thoughts these days and we're just working through them. And then of course there's like the most me specific side effect, which is that like despite feeling you know tremendously necessary for the last many years, I was able to just stop and go do what I needed to do. And that comes down to a lot of help from a lot of people. It comes down of course to you, John, but also of course there's lots of stuff that you didn't know. And there are many people who are able to sort of make it work and keep everything not just like working, but moving forward. And that felt really good. Taking a step back from me, slowing down a little bit, you know I think it would have happened eventually, but I did get my hand forced a little bit. And so we did it and it turned out it was entirely doable. So despite the fact that I felt like I was needed for everything, I wasn't. And that's great news and also a lesson to learn. I mean it's not surprising that I would be fascinated by the idea of videos still coming out after you're gone. Like what is it trying to do? What's it trying to say? Is it trying to say like even though I know I'm not going to be here, I still care what people are going to think about me after I'm gone? Or is it saying this isn't about me? I want to make people laugh whether I'm here to see it or not. I want people to leave comments whether I'm there to respond to them or not. Maybe it's a way of saying like the things that we make aren't really about us. And it's interesting to ask like what would you make if you knew people would watch it, but you wouldn't be there to see how they felt about it. That's very different from how I imagine creation. Oh and having thought through what this video is going to look like just for clarity, I'm not dead.  Like it seems like especially because in the beginning I didn't know what day it was, that maybe that's what I was implying. No, I'm alive. I just legitimately didn't know what day it was. John, I'll see you on Tuesday.


In the light of the outcry trailing the assertion on fuel subsidy removal by President Bola Tinumbo, the People's Democratic Party PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubaka has criticized the approach. Tinumbo, in inaugural speech last Monday, had declared that fuel subsidy is gone. The decision was taken by former President Mohamed Bwari in 2022 and the move received the backing of Tinumbo, Atiku and other 2023 presidential candidates who sought to end the funds gone in some of the regime if elected. But speaking on Saturday in Boucher State addressed PDP officials elected, if the recent polls Atiku kicked against the decision which some have described as a knee-jerk policy action. Let me make a passing remarks on the announced fuel subsidy removal. Between 1999 and 2007, the PDP government initiated petroleum subsidy removal and I chaired the committee. We achieved subsidy removal in two phases, but only after providing palliatives to those most affected by the subsidy removal. We have the experience as a party and government. That is what we would have done and not just announce subsidy removal without discussion with the affected sectors of the economy. I think Nigerians should appreciate what they have temporarily lost.


Hello. I am the storyteller. And today we will talk about Orvieto. Orvieto is a city and commune in the province of Terni, southwestern Umbria, Italy situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuf. The city rises dramatically above the almost vertical faces of tuf cliffs that are completed by defensive walls built of the same stone, called Tufa. The ancient city, populated since the Truscan times, has usually been associated with the Truscan Volsna, but some modern scholars differ. Orvieto was certainly a major center of a Truscan civilization. The archaeological museum houses some of the Truscan artifacts that have been recovered in the immediate area. An interesting artifact that might show the complexity of ethnic relations in ancient Italy and how such relations could be peaceful is the inscription on a tomb in the Orvieto Canicella Necropolis, Mi Avales Catacinas, I am of Aval Catacina, with an Etruscan Latin first name and a family name that is believed to be of Celtic origin. Orvieto was annexed by Rome in the 3rd century BC. Because of its site on a high, steep bluff of tuf, of volcanic rock, the city was virtually impregnable. After the collapse of the Roman Empire its defensible site gained new importance, the Episcopal seat was transferred from Volsena, and the city was held by Goths and by Lombards before its self-governing commune was established in the 10th century, in which consuls governed under a feudal oath of fealty to the bishop. Orvieto's relationship to the papacy has been a close one. In the 10th century Pope Benedict VII visited the city of Orvieto with his nephew, Filippo Albarasi, who later settled there and became consul of the city-state in 1016. By the 13th century three papal palaces had been built.


With the Zen Dudes, I'm your host Dan. We got our other host Brandon out in Los Angeles. Let's do this. Let's do this. I'm so happy to be here. Yeah, I really appreciate you paying for all my expenses and getting me set up here at the Long Beach Hyatt Regency. Don't worry about it. ZenDude Fitness takes care of their people, don't they? Hey, you like that LA hat? I got you too. A little gift. You're in the LA. You know what I mean? We want everyone to know that. That's why we have the LA and the New York hat on. So everyone knows where we are in the world. I want to get sponsored by New Era so that we can just wear the hats of whatever city we're in. I like that. Then people just know. We don't have to say it. We're in New York. So if we make a video and there's a thumbnail and someone's like, where are they? We'll just look at our hats and you know. Yes, that could be a thing. I like that. That could be a thing, bro. Hey, we got some people from our community who ask questions and I want to answer them. Yeah. First of all, guys, the meetups are happening. Venice Beach, it just happened. Just happened. We had nine of us. Nice. And just the coolest dudes ever. Just such then dude. Nice, dude. That means there's... I'm psyched, man. That's super awesome. I know you have to get going, so I don't want to... I just want to remind everyone that the Philly meetup is this Wednesday, May 31st, then Boston's June 3rd, then...no, sorry, New York is June 3rd, Saturday. New York or Boston is June 7th, the following Wednesday. You know what I'm saying? So check those out on Facebook, Zendu Fitness. That's all I have to say, man. Yeah, we'll get those linked up in the description. Yeah. We'll all know when it's going down because it is really the most gratifying thing ever to hang out with other Zendudes. Like, what I did yesterday was I went... we all did a real hardcore workout. I was like, what do you guys want to do? I saw them warm it up, and all these dudes were like, badass with jump ropes. They were doing criss-crosses, besides double-energy, name it. I was like, let's do a workout.  We had some fish tacos. We hung out on the beach. We went out to watch people skateboard. They helped me. They were part of the vlog. Yeah. Cool. Dude, that's super fun, man. I like it. I like it too. Okay. We can get into the questions. I just wanted to gush a little bit about how happy I am to everyone in that community. Yeah. I feel you, man. I'm slick to get out there, bro. I am... Oh, my God. I got a lot of energy about L.I. What kind of year? You should, because the energy here is... First question. Hit me. Sarah. Sup, dudes? If a lot of weight is lost and a little muscle mass while doing the lean course, what should I do without lifting weights, though? If a lot of weight is lost and a little muscle mass while doing the lean course, what should I do without lifting weights, though? So she's saying she doesn't want to lift weights, but I'm assuming she wants to gain a little more mass. So, Dan, do you want to answer that? Like, what would she do if she wanted to maybe, like, put a little bit of that muscle back on? Yeah. I mean, honestly, girl, lift weights. It's just going to be the easiest thing for you to pack on that muscle. I don't know what your reasoning is for not wanting to go... Like, if you just don't want to go to the gym, I get it. But if you're looking for a specific result that requires X, just do X. You know? Like, you can, yes, you could do a bunch of body weight exercises to build mass. That's what Brandon and I are doing right now. But you're going to build more mass. If your sole goal is to build muscle, then I would do the thing that's going to get you there faster, which is going to be lifting weights. So if you don't like the current result, I would say, like, if you want to get bigger and grow your mass, like, lifting weights is the most obvious thing to do. Having said that, if you want to still maintain muscle mass and grow a little bit, but probably grow slower, do just tons and tons of body weight exercises, push-ups, squats, pull-ups are the main ones that come to my head. Andres asks, I decided to change my feeding time from 4 to 12 because I'm typically at the gym from 9.30 to 11 p.m. What are your all thoughts on that? Is it okay to work out and eat so close to bedtime? Yes. Yes. And yes, my friend, total number of calories and macronutrients making sure you hit that is always the number one priority. When you eat it, doesn't really have anything to do with what you're going to look like. Even eating at night, there are like studies, that's like an old fitness idea. They used to say, like, there used to be studies that said, if you eat like carbs at night, you're going to get fat, totally not true. Your body just cares about the total number of calories and macronutrients on a daily basis. Yeah. Maybe that's some pseudo-science. Yo, that's just pseudo. Sudo. Sudo, man. Sudo. Yeah. Work. Wolfie is a little pissed, because we haven't been answering this question. He keeps asking. Wolfie asks us, why are you guys so awesome? Wolfie. Wolfie. Wolfie. All right. Dude, Wolfie, I'm going to go ahead and sort of counter your little question there and ask why you're so awesome. That was me dropping the mic. Yep. Love you, Wolfie. Love you. All right. Dude, he's really awesome, man. I just want to say a thank you to Wolfie, because he in the dojo and the four week challenge group makes a bunch of tutorial videos and he's always challenging people. And we, like, we love that from our community members. So Wolfie is definitely a guy who goes in and goes all out. And that's why he's been getting results and continuing to lean his body down. So, Wolfie, you're the man. And Wolfie just like, he has good energy because he gives. Like, a lot of people don't understand how happy you feel when you give love. And Wolfie just gives love all day in the group. She's helping people and everyone loves Wolfie because he helps everyone. And she's just like, cycle of love and feeling good and smiling. So, great example. Yeah, I agree. I agree. Gerardo, what's y'all's favorite sweet-cheat, something that you won't share? Something like a cake, a bread, ice cream, candy, fruit? Dude, I just ate it. I just ate it, bro. Really warm apple pie heated up in the microwave with vanilla bean ice cream on top of it. Just, oh my God. Y'all had two pieces, two big pieces. It's Memorial Day here. It's Memorial Day here in the U.S. So, I'm, I had a little cheat day today. It was fantastic. Oh yeah. So Gerardo, mine is carrot cake and a nice dense carrot cake that has a good amount of frosting, but the dough, the cake is not just whatever. The dough has a lot of flavor as well. So, the frosting and the dough, is it dough? The, whatever's not frosting. What do we call that? Yeah, just, is that called cake? I think that is the cake. Okay. So, the cake has to have a lot of flavor. I love carrot cake. Moving on. James asked, Brandon, how do you keep the mamba unhealthy? Seems to get a lot of unhealthy ends for twisting it over due to hair thing. Wow, James, this is a great question. Dude, show them, show them. My, dude, I got, my hair doesn't look very good right now because I'm wearing a hat and then when I wear a hat, kind of pushing my hair back, it makes it look like I've received a hairline a little bit. So, let me talk to you about the bun really quick. Wow. Yo, Medusa. Medusa, I'm legata. All right.  I wash it with shampoo probably once a week because if I wash it too frequently, it gets too straw-like, you know? Just not a next texture. Yeah, you don't want that. Alex asked, two quick questions about the macro calculator. The web that gives me 45% carbs, 35% fat, 25% protein, but in a simple meal system for endomorphs, it should be more like low carbs, high fat, high protein. What should I do? Gotcha, bro. So listen, man, the calculator is going to give you, if I'm not mistaken, we don't have like ectomorph and like body type built into the calculator. The calculator is just going to give you your percentages and then the balance, if you're an ectomorph, that's when you go to the simple meal system and you can adjust your macros based off those numbers. So for example, if you are, first of all, I would say, don't worry too much about this because if you're eating calories, like the right amount of calories, whether you're at like 50% carbs or 40% carbs, I promise you is not going to make a huge difference in the grand scheme of things as long as you're hitting those calories. But I would say, dude, is if you see that and it doesn't match the simple meal system, like what you would get for what is endomorph, then plug, then change your numbers to meet like keep the same calorie count, but change the ratios of carbs to fats to proteins to make it meet that of an endomorph. So that, I just want to throw a rough example. That might be like lowering carbs by 10, raising fat by 10. The simple meal system should tell you how to do that though. And I would also add like a lot of people don't know what to do like if they just follow the numbers in the calculator and after you're like a certain amount of time at plateaus, it might not be a bad idea, Alex. Like, do you see results for a while with the exact numbers the calculator gives you? Like, following the suggestions of the simple meal system may be a great thing to do once you do see a plateau because then you know how to adjust. Because we always talk about like, do the minimal amount of like kind of work that you have to do until like you hit a wall and then you can like add a little bit more and you're adding a little more would be like refining your macronutrient distribution based upon your body type. Yeah. The show. The show. Alright, Shannon. I'm wondering if you guys can make a video about stretching post-workout not so much an ask as any question just a request. Yeah. You know what we should do? Maybe Dan and myself will do a vlog one day. We'll just do like a stretching routine that you guys can follow. I can do that. I don't mind doing that. I do some stretching and some working out my body before I jump before I do the thing so I'm happy to show that. I did post it in the group the other day but I can do like a more extensive video on that. There. I'm writing it down, Shannon. I am taking it as a note. You best believe I'm taking a note. On the 4A Challengers, Samson asks, how do I transition from counting calories to estimating macro-fulfilling meals? In parentheses, I've reached an ideal weight. I just want to maintain it now. Okay. Can you ask that one more time? He wants to transition from counting calories to being able to estimate how much you should be eating throughout the day. These are just the weight that he wants to be. This process is very simple. The only reason you're tracking your calories and macros and it talks about this in the simple meal system in our dojo that is linked up below, by the way. The only reason that you're tracking your calories and macros in the first place is because you want to be more self-aware and repeat meals. The whole goal of tracking calories and macros is to find about 20 meals that you love and just repeat them because then you know the calorie-macro-nutrient ratio. When I got to a restaurant now, I know that a bacon cheeseburger and fries is about somewhere between 750 to 950 calories and I know that it's somewhere between 35 grams of protein to maybe 55 grams of protein. I know that can seem like a big difference but what my point is that you just need to find meals that you want to repeat and so when you eat them at multiple different places or make it at home it's still within this same calorie range. Be sure to check out the simple meal system if you haven't, that's also linked up below. The simple meal system tells you like ranges of the meal because it's not actually very accurate to say like this meal has 610 calories and blah blah blah like unless you make it perfectly every time so there's like meal ranges in there and once you build that self-awareness that's how you can just looking at food and being like alright there's 700 calories there's my 800 and there's my remaining 700.  I'll just answer it short and let you take this because dude I would just say habit it's got to be a habit man it doesn't matter if you're in school because guess what happens after school you start working you know there's never going to be a time in your life where you just have free time that you can choose the perfect time to work out every day my thing man would be start a habit even if that's starting with like 10 minutes a day of jump rope just so you build this habit of doing the thing every day right what would you say yeah I mean dude just piggyback around that like you just have to make it a non-negotiable non-negotiable for your life like it's one of those things that need to become the same as like brushing your teeth every day or taking a shower like I'm sure you just do it actually maybe a shower is like a great example like you know I'm like a pretty clean guy I shower just about every day but some once in a while a day goes by I don't shower and working out is very similar to that for me now like I just have to get it in I get it in every day and if like for whatever reason like I don't get it in like I get in the next day and it's just like something that's showing me it's my routine that it's then non-negotiable for my life like it's not like oh am I going to do it today it's just like of course I'm going to do it just like of course in the shower also dude if you're feeling stressed like you have to work out like if you the way to be like be happier and like if you're feeling stressed because you have all this stuff like what's that saying when you're the busiest that's when it's time to exercise because by just working out for 30 minutes you're going to be able with all the you're going to be able to deal better with your busy life yeah I think there's like a Zen a Zen Buddhist in quote that was like if you don't have 20 minutes to meditate every day then meditate for an hour I feel like the same goes for like working out if you don't have 20 minutes to exercise in a day then like maybe you should be sitting off an hour to go exercise and just give yourself more self-care yeah I agree man I agree alright Omar Omar I just said Omar Omar Omar Omar it says it's Ramadan Ramadan in his country so the question is of course what's the perfect time to jump rope before or after eating now this is going to be a little different Dan I will leave this just because this is a little different than most fasting questions because like with Ramadan like they're not like drink water or eat yeah yeah and that worries me just a little bit like someone like not having any water intake I'm worried I'm worried was that yeah or food until after the sun goes down usually if you're like legit and you're really following the program I think it's supposed to be pitch black outside which should be pretty late at night so I would actually say like if you can either do before the sun rises practice before the sun comes up maybe get up even earlier eat and then you can do the fast for us today or in the evening maybe right after a couple hours after eating so that's my suggestion cool cool I'm attached says I observe substantial body fat reduction when I first started my jumper workout however since the last two or three weeks I've seen the plateaued out how do I work this case result over time he's talking about just a plateau yeah and I mean I need your reaction is like what's going on with your nutrition but Dan I mean what it's always nutrition I feel like it's always nutrition you have to like you really seriously have to ask yourself am I hitting my calories and macros every single day because if you don't if you don't track that that is the biggest contributing factor to how you're going to and if you're not paying attention to that like your body is just on this roller coaster but it doesn't know what's going on in it it doesn't know like if it should lose weight gain weight and so it just goes in this like you know up and down up and down phase can you slow slow bro get your nutrition on point because he is I'm attached I'm assuming you were really pumped that like you started jumping rope and you're losing body fat except it is just getting your nutrition on point good good G whatever the challenge is based on your transformation what are the challenges you face undergoing a transformation I'm not being consistent people give up not because they can't do the work or they can't eat right it's because they don't take small actions on a daily basis and so they they're not consistent I think the biggest struggle that people have is they don't do something for long enough to see it through to the result ladies and gentlemen to let you know really quick you're probably like why is it dark out and why did Brandon and Dan have different shirts on even though we have the same hats well ladies and gentlemen that's because we got disconnected because the internet at my parents house is not the best internet it's the best got it yeah so we're gonna we're back now we're back we're gonna finish up because we finish stuff we're finishers okay every time that's right no matter what even if there's a fire dude we will finish and you know what if the fire is not totally finished we'll finish the fire you know what I mean yeah peony exactly man Kabir asks when does the body lose muscle what exactly is the science behind muscle loss does that have anything to do with macros great question I love these kind of questions Dan I'll let you leave yeah I think it it does have to do with macronutrients so basically the short science of it is when you don't feed your muscles properly they look to your body looks to get energy from certain places and instead of turning to your body's fat stores your body basically goes to your muscle and says well I could use some energy so I'm gonna take some of your muscle so that you don't die so that is the catabolism catabolism that's right and that's that's the science of it right there yeah so that's why you wanna get your protein Kabir get your protein get your macros use the calculator get your protein yeah the body's I mean just real quick like the body's just a bunch of atoms made up of things that like like the way I think about if you're a certain size and you wanna maintain that size your body is constantly either losing weight gaining weight gaining muscle losing muscle so like your body has to have a certain level of substance each day substance being calories, macronutrients are a certain level of protein in order for you to stay getting less it is kind of logical that your body's gonna get smaller because of it and you're gonna lose muscle so Tavanesh asks how does sleep play a role in keeping fit or achieving the Zen state well a big thing is like when you don't sleep enough your hormones get out of balance like your cortisol is gonna go up and cortisol is like the stress hormone and when your cortisol is up in time it could actually help it could like muscles getting eaten away you know your left inch can be messed up which is your hormone that controls your metabolism and so a lot of your hormones get out of funk when you don't sleep enough and when that happens you're more likely to put on more body fat and lose muscle mass so that's why it's so important to figure out what is a good amount of sleep for you personally we've talked about this in past some people need 10 self experimentation yeah I agree I agree with you Bart asks does intermittent fasting cause pimples? I'm 47 years old I've never had an issue with pimples I recently incorporated IF in my lifestyle I'm experiencing acne like a pre-pubescent teen no intermittent fasting does not cause acne dude something else is responsible for that and I just I don't think that changing the way in which you eat like you're still on a diet here there's nothing intermittent fasting doesn't really do a whole lot that would cause your body to break out in pimples if you're not taking care of your body or if you're working out and then you're keeping your smelly shirts on and then you know I get dude my back breaks out because sometimes I work out and then I come home and I sit around and edit video for three hours instead of getting in the shower and that sometimes causes pimples but I really I think definitely does not cause pimples or acne but I highly I do not think at all that that has anything to do with pimples to balance with you what do you think man yeah I don't think so either I know that for different testosterone therapies like some of the protocol is intermittent fasting because it has like a correlation with helping improve testosterone but I don't think it's dramatic enough to give you acne you know because then like that's where the acne comes in but I think that I have like he'll give you a small boost which shouldn't create like as much a hormone shock to create acne yeah agreed agreed all right the jeet asks can you jump rope after getting a new tattoo I got mine yesterday so can I jump rope my dude I hope it was a do the thing tattoo if it was Tigers on Instagram so we can check that out for different like for example the let me put it this way when you get a tattoo the best thing in the world you can do is probably not exercise at all like if we're talking like the top person the top tattoo artist would probably tell you dude just don't exercise don't put it in water just put coconut oil on it or some kind of ointment and let it heal having said that me being realistic like I didn't fully stop working out whenever I get tattoos but what I don't usually do is like this one was on my forearm it's like I won't do pull ups because that stretches it out if I'm just doing a little bit of jump rope I'll let that slide or if I'm just like going on a super long walk I'll let that slide I think you're fine to jump rope dude as long as you're taking care of it as long as you're applying ointment to it as long as you're cleaning it dude clean your tattoo that's a big thing that's that's what would be my suggestion Rahul Rahul asks how to perfectly rule a joint I guess we can't really answer that question but we've never smoked weed before I'll pass any thoughts on incorporating backwards jumping with the transition from forwards into a routine he wants to do backwards jumping rope followed by front row jumping rope in a routine I think he's just saying can I do backwards jump rope and in my routine and he wants some guidance with this with this I'm not on that I think we should do man when I get to LA let's get the excel rope out and let's just like have skill practice every day where we practice the you know our skills I saw you on there murdering that little cross oh no I'm not done crossing you know that was cool my this dude Eric at the Zendu fitness meet up at Venice Beach taught me how to jump rope like through one of my legs really it's like side wipe on it do that make that video man yeah make it nice anyhow I think what we're saying is we don't do backwards jump rope that much and we're going to start practicing and we'll incorporate into a work at some point yeah we promise promise yeah Alfon asked what exercise is better to get a six pack a plank crunches or sit ups players dude I don't think any of those can be honest with you but I'm a fan of like if we're talking research and stuff there's research behind why planks are beneficial like just locking your body in for like a minute two minutes three minutes like that that can be super beneficial I'm personally someone who if I'm going to work my abs I believe that like you should work your lower abs because that's really the biggest area that people want to see and better results for my own body by training my lower abs only so doing leg raises that's my that's my go to um yeah I'm a big leg raise guy so that would be that would be if you want my like favorite ab exercise that I think is super beneficial I would say leg raises and then plank after that that would be mine and I was doing leg raises I did oh leg raises but just way harder yeah a lot of thickness adding on to my my turtle shell on my stomach ah nice if you want to get wild Alphon throw it in there do it do it Alphon alright arena ass is it normal not to sweat during intense HIIT workout um I mean I know that like for example this isn't I've seen like girls go through intense workouts and they don't sweat as much as like I sweat like a pig to be honest with you dude Sarah and I did a workout today I was drenched she didn't sweat at all so and we did the same workout yeah so I don't I don't know necessarily though that um that is a I think you can still go really intense and get a great workout and not sweat buckets like someone like Brandon or I would like those buckets buckets yeah but also try to make yourself sweat like maybe it's also because you're not pushing yourself hard enough we always talk about you have to push yourself to 110% so do that 120 impossible yeah maybe 125 I don't know get crazy I don't care yo shout out to the homies over at cross rope they have the jump rope that you see in our instagram stories you see you get 10% off when you click the link in the description of this youtube video or if you're listening to the podcast just go to cross rope dot com forward slash zen fitness um and also holler at our boys athletic greens they got some great greens products protein a lot of goodies that are grass fed and just high quality so if you want to check them out again we linked them in the youtube video below we have a bundle for you guys and if you're listening to this athletic greens dot com forward slash zen fitness check them out ladies and gentlemen thank you for tuning in to episode number 17 can't wait to see you guys on next week week's episode I'm going to be in New York City I'll be in New York City are you going to be in Oregon? next uh I get into Oregon on Friday so um it depends when we do that episode I'll be in Oregon cool awesome ladies and gentlemen thanks for another one and we'll see you on the next Ask the Zen dudes


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