What's up everyone takedown here welcome back to another video today. I'm gonna be unboxing a geek fuel box Now this one here. I didn't purchase. There's actually a funny story I might save it to the end of this video to explain how I got this and why geek fuel or why I think geek fuel sent me this box But for now, I'm just gonna unbox it first because I think that is what everybody wants to see the most of And if you stay till the end of the video I will share the story or try to remember to share the story as to why geek fuel sent me this box in the first place now I did do a geek fuel back when I first rebranded my channel whenever I started to make more videos like this instead of Just gaming contents and I think that was like 2017 2018 I can't quite remember but it's been a while since I've done one of these as you guys know I don't normally do geek fuel Or any subscription boxes anymore. I don't do that I was looking into it about three four months ago and seeing what I could get now that I'm laid off doing due to COVID-19 I am not gonna be doing any more subscription boxes after this one So I'm gonna open it up here. I just received it. So I'm assuming this is maze subscription box It might show me inside, but let's just open it up and see what we get Okay, like always They would send this this is basically it does say on honestly on its contains spoilers This just lists and shares everything that you receive in this card form So I'm not gonna bother to look at that next the first item Is an X files Pin pals I'm not really familiar with X files, but it does explain on the back and for this one. There's actually two rare ones there is the ultra rare Out of a hundred and then there's the rare out of five hundred which is the alien that would have been a nice one to get But the one that I got is Dana's scully Like I said, I'm not familiar with the X files So I do have one of these actually. I think it was a dual pack It was a two pack in one package But I believe I have them for planets of the eight from the last time I received this that is still on my shelf So I'm likely gonna put this with it Next we have a thank-you card I don't know why that was under the first item, but a thank-you card from geek fuel with everybody that works there's Name on it. I believe the whole geek fuel team in the colored ink on the bottom. That's pretty cool Even though I didn't purchase this Next we have a sticker a Geek fuel sticker. However, it resembles Futurama's logo but instead of the ship and I can't remember if what it says For the Futurama logo, but it's just the geek fuel tank in the middle of it So that's cool. I would have rather the Futurama logo instead of a geek fuel variants, but Can't really complain on that Next is a slurm sticker That's actually a decal Okay, so it's not just a sticker You can actually go and put this on a can yourself and turn it into Futurama's slurm Which I don't think I'm going to do just because I don't want to have an actual can up on display. That's unopened And honestly, I think a Pepsi can it would probably be the best just to have it all blue But I'm not even gonna bother to attempt that. I'm just gonna keep it for the sticker. So that's pretty cool that one Next We have two of these in here two separate boxes, so I'm gonna open up the first one here. It says Lord of the pins Okay, Lord of the Rings But it says Lord of the Pins That's pretty cool. Let's see what pin this is See, I'm not really keen on geek fuel doing these is it one of the geek fuels pins These aren't pin pals. These are geek fuel pins, but it's literally Each character is in the design of the geek fuel tank, which I'm not keen on I don't really care about geek fuels logo geek fuels character. So turning a Character into the geek fuel tank is not of interest to me again, there is rare ones The rare one is at 500, but I never ever get any of those from anything. So Not too bad. There is another one here though Running out of space. So the second one and again, it is not the rare one The one I received this time is the top one. The other one was this one here I'm not even gonna try to pronounce names mainly because I'm not into Lord of the Rings And I don't want to offend anybody but again, I like getting pins Don't get me wrong. Just I would have rather the character even though I'm not into Lord of the Rings I would have been more interested in it if it wasn't a tank variant from the geek fuel character That's all that's my only gripe about it Next is a t-shirt Which is why I love geek fuel and loot crate because they send usually very high quality t-shirts And I still have and wear them. They're great quality. So this one here is gray Normally out of any subscription box that I have seen Typically, it's always black with a logo. So it's a black shirt having a gray one. That's me is high hopes So we're gonna unravel it here. Now last time I believe it came in a box. I'm kind of shocked it didn't but That's not too bad honestly It is a Futurama one. I Love New New York. I got the reference right away. Some people who are not familiar with Futurama Might not understand it. So wearing this out in public Some people might might not understand it. It also has the Since New York started 2999 so that's pretty cool. It has the year on it. We get a close-up here and It also has the Futurama ship in the middle so in the middle of the heart. So that's pretty cool I do like this shirt. I'm likely going to wear it. It looks like it's gonna be a comfy one It is really soft Just make sure they sent my size they did I always order a 2x just because sometimes these subscription boxes Normally, I'm a 1x sometimes a 2x the subscription boxes. I find I'm always a 2x just because some of them because of the printed logo or the printed design on it They're a little bit snug. So I always always order one size up. Oh I like what's in here next. I'm gonna save the best for last The next thing is something that I honestly don't really care about. So that's in this box, but that is a Rick and Morty squishy ball Kind of like a stress reliever Now There is a bunch that you could get I'm not familiar with the characters. So I don't know who this is. I've never watched Rick and Morty It's something that some of my co-workers and some friends have recommended me to do I just have not done it yet because I have so many things I'm trying to catch up on Netflix I have so many things gaming wise. I don't want to start a new series right now, but I Mean it looks cool It's probably the best character to get The squishy ball out of because he's literally rounds in the picture here But some of the other ones would have been cool too, but will I use it possibly not? Next up, I don't know which one I want to do next So I'm just gonna grab the first one here the smaller one. It is a funkel pop For the walking dead Judith Grimes, and I'm really excited. I've really have always been into walking dead. I've mentioned this on the channel before Absolutely love the walking dead. However, I Haven't been into it like I was this season 10 is the current season out I'm waiting till it hits Netflix before I watch it. I'll binge the whole season So I haven't been up to date with any of the walking dead recently But I'm caught up up till the end of season 9 at least so that's awesome So I've always been wanting funkel pops. You guys know this. I've mentioned this before I only have one which is a hockey player Connor McDavid and this is my second funkel pop So at least it's something of interest to me the walking dead. I love the show Judith Grimes is definitely a character that I can't wait to see what she does in season 10 So I'm really excited. This is awesome. I really wanted to subscribe to The funkel pop monthly subscription will the send one to five of these a month However, of course, like I said, I can't For the subscription boxes right now. I can't afford getting these but I want to in the future for sure That to me looks amazing now since I don't have too many of them and they're not taking up much my room I'm definitely gonna be keeping this in the box if I were to get and expand more and get more funkel pop I would likely have to get a different display case and take them out of the box Which a lot of people are against but for me it would save room. So I'd probably get one of those IKEA glass shelves Just so they always stay fresh and not have dust or really anything in them And yes, you guys just seen that because it just took it out of the box while I'm explaining the last thing This is the last item and I'm really excited for it because it's something that it looks awesome I'm just gonna show it here. It is a Q-fig Batman Look at that That looks awesome. I'm really impressed the detail work looks like it's really cool Honestly My only gripe about it is the facts that the character is way smaller than the box. So this unfortunately I might have to take out. I actually think I have a cool spot for this on one end of my huge shelf I have the old Captain America Die cast shield. It's kind of small just like this. So on one corner, I could have that and the other corner I could have this Honestly on the shelf. I think that'd look awesome as we talk shelf, but if this box was a little bit smaller to him Maybe the size of a funkel pop. I would probably keep him in the box just to keep it You know authentic and that's the right way to do it if you're collecting but because it's such a large box I don't know if I'm gonna have room for this on my shelf So I might unfortunately have to take him out But you guys can't really tell because it's in double packaging you have the outside here And you also have the packaging inside so you guys might not be able to get a detailed shot of it But the detail work Looks amazing on this. I'm really excited as you guys know. I am a fan of Batman I'm more into Marvel, but I love Batman when it comes to DC also the flash, but can't always win So this is awesome. I Do like these so my favorite things ever this box as you can tell from me sharing them is clearly the funkel pop The Q-Fig and the t-shirts everything else in my opinion is not of Real interest to me The pin pal I'm not into X files not really into Lord of the Rings and they have the geek fuel tank on them So they're not really of interest to me I do like the slurp sticker, but the Futurama sticker with the geek fuel tank. I don't really care about unfortunately But now for the story as to why I got this geek fuel box I did remember to share this so I'm happy. I was gonna end the video just now but the reason I got this box is Three months ago prior to me getting laid off due to COVID-19 I was actually looking into subscribing to a subscription box Geek fuel loot crate whatever and I was looking at the prices at the time I didn't want to purchase anything. I just wanted to look at the prices so I logged on to my geek fuel accounts and I seen the prices and I wasn't really sure if I wanted them at the time So I just logged out Somehow whenever I was looking at them, they must have added it to my cart And I found out a week later that they purchased it a purchase went through of a hundred and ten odd dollars And I was kind of shocked so I ended up logging back into my geek fuel accounts and sure enough There's a new purchase there because I did purchase from them before 2017 or 18 so that purchase is there But there's also a new one from a week ago, but it says inactive says it was not confirmed No purchase and that's nothing's getting shipped to me. However, they charged me so I ended up emailing the the geek fuel team Which is usually a 24-hour response, but I was basically asked them for an explaining a Explanation, sorry, I'm stuttering explanation and also a refunds for my credit card because a purchase that I did not want went through No response a couple days later. I asked them again. No response. So I contacted my credit card company They said within 90 days so three months They're gonna investigate look into it But since I have proof that they are not responding to my emails I'm likely gonna get the money back one way or another nothing to worry about. That's what my credit card company told me So never thought about it a month goes by nothing happened two months go by since I got charged and Geek fuel responds to one of my previous emails that I sent to them and they say sorry for any inconvenience a Whole bunch of other stuff and then say we are refunding your account now. You're a credit card It'll be there within five days Sure enough five days later. I get the money back on my accounts. They did refund me so I thought thought nothing more of it until recently a month after that just this week I Went to the mail and there is a geek fuel box there for me And I couldn't piece it together and actually this geek fuel box is Not even the one that's they apparently state on the website that I ordered Apparently I ordered a geek fuel EX box, which is their large geek fuel box It's a quarterly box instead of a monthly box But what they sent me was a monthly box So I don't really know why they shipped this to me after they already refunded to me the money Month later, they went and shipped it anyways. So I thought that was very odd So for this geek fuel box, I did not purchase it, which is hilarious to me But some of the stuff I got out of it. I'm glad I did not purchase it I only got a Q fig from Batman a Pop figure for walking dead, which I could have lived without but I'm really happy I have it and a Futurama t-shirt other than that everything out of this box was not worth it So this box here would have been only $45 I believe that includes shipping to Canada To me the value in it for me is not worth it But they actually charged me a hundred and ten So I'm glad that I got my refund because it's something I didn't even want But after receiving it, I'll take it. It was free So I just wanted to mention that story as to why I got this geek fuel box and also unbox it for you guys So hope you guys enjoyed this video comment down below if you guys have had anything with other subscription box companies Geek fuel you loot crates whatever else has something like this happened with you in the past Let me know I'm gonna leave this video here. Please take care. Peace


Hey everyone, welcome to Higan Iruthil. So this is an advanced review of the incoming banner. This is happening, I think, on the 14th, if I'm not mistaken. So that's just a few days away from the current banner, which is Nunu. Not sure why this is happening so quickly, but again, I'll give you my, you know, my feedback, my review. I've used Rita extensively from Soft Launch and this would really help you decide whether, again, you're gonna be going back to Nunu, skipping this or skipping Nunu, going for this, or skipping both and moving on to the next. So that is where I would want you guys to feel after, you know, more or less digesting what I have to say about this banner. We will have two reviews right now. So Rita first, I don't know, Hathor first, then Rita last. So Hathor is going to be the rate up SR. So will you need Hathor? That is the first question, because you'll be getting a lot of, you know, even if you don't get Rita, more or less you'll be getting Hathor if you pull for this banner. So let's go first to Hathor. So this is again my Vanguard server account. Someone that clarified that up. So okay, so for Hathor, she is a hoplight. So definitely she's using AD. Okay, AD is for physical damage characters, which is hoplight, guardian, ranger, and assassin. Okay, so those are physical type. So they're using AD. So again, the stats that is going to be good for her is bonus attack speed. She's gonna be in the front. AD of course, HP, probably life steal, and that is it. Crit rate and crit damage of course would be beneficial for her as well. So let's move on to her skills. Let's just have a sense of who Hathor is. She's actually a cleaning maid. So I don't know if I'll have her clean my house or my room, but she'll probably destroy the room because of this vacuum cleaner. It's not a vacuum cleaner, but anyway. Basic attack. Again, it's basic attack purifying fire. So 100 to 110% AD to an enemy. So that's your very basic, basic attack. Next up is passive. So for her passive Hathor stays focused. Basic attack grants her one stack of sense of responsibility. This increases her attack speed, which is nice. So all you have to do is increase her damage, output this effect, last for six seconds, max 10 stacks. Okay, this expires instantly when affected by a crowd control effect. Okay, next up is she has two active skills. You can choose either of them. You can swap them if you like. So this one is a buff damage and active Hathor can't stand the filthy anymore. She deals p damage, physical damage, AD to enemies with an arc, within an arc. Okay, so enemies plural. So she has kind of a small AOE arc and gains bonus crit rate for seven second 10. That's only 10%. Okay, so that is her active. The other active skill is Hathor focuses on cleaning loads being interrupted. So she does not want to be interrupted guys when she cleans your house. She deals p damage to surrounding enemies and gains unassailable for three seconds when gaining two stacks of sense of responsibility. Unassailable is immune to all dislocation effects. So she just keeps on hacking. The other one is immune immunity. This one is bonus crit rate. Really, it's really up to you on how you're gonna build her. Both are good. This one is good to create the most crit rate, especially if this scales as you level up this active skill. If this scales, then this would be better than this one. But again, this one is immune to all dislocation effects. So, but my priority I would suggest is go with this one, especially if you can scale this up from 10%. Then ultimate Hathor overclock, so it's above an ultimate. Her cleaning is tensing flame to deal 80 damage to enemies within an arc. So there's a small arc again, then gains 10 stacks of sense of responsibility. Sense of responsibility is if you recall this one, so attack speed. So she also gains attack speed, increase attack speed with this one.  Blue fire is within seven seconds. Basic attack damage increases by 110 to 120 and crit rating is by 15 upon critical strike. Blue fire's duration extends up to 0.5 and up to 14 seconds. Okay, what are my thoughts initially? From what I remember, Hathor is more focused on single target but has the ability to widen her damage a little bit because of the arc. So she is hoplite and she is a fire. I just wonder if you guys recall a certain hoplite fire hero or character that just recently came out. Definitely if you have Sir Slit, you won't be able to use Hathor. She's a nice unit to have by the way for if you're starting out and if you don't, if you really need a hoplite then she can be the girl for you. Okay, Eupharia is actually one of her, you know, competitions in terms of hoplite and fire. But again, I don't see you using or, you know, using Hathor, you'll probably reset her eventually. So unless if you're really into summoning for Hathor and you want to more or less a user instead of the two that I mentioned, then be my guest. So she's actually decent. Don't get me wrong, her kit is really good. It's not a bad kit. So again, there's nothing wrong with you guys using her for her awaken. Phase one is damage mitigation, which is standard standard for hoplites. Damage bonus is phase two. Phase three is this is deals 50 more damage to burning targets. So additional damage to burn targets. So a burn team. This one is deals additional 33% damage for the blue fire. Again, her kit is based on attack speed crit and a lot of damage. That's it. Single, she is usually used for single target. Upon entering battle gain four stacks of sense of responsibility. This is your attack speed bonus. And each stack of sense of responsibility, grants you an additional 10 attack speed. So then this one gives her cleave. The basic attack also gives damage to enemies near the target. So eventually you can have cleave for her. She can do damage within an arc, especially for her basic attack, which is nice. So not only she can do single target, but again she can do cleave and the crit rate unassailable. And this one is a life steal. Oh, she has built in life steal. So and also you can increase her crit rate. So again, my point in her is that her build initially will be for single target. She can really morph into an AoE hitter emphasis on damage dealing, crit rate, attack speed, eventually life steal. Her kit is actually decent. Don't get me wrong. You can actually use her really if you really, really want to use her, especially if you could get a lot of copies of her, then be my guest. But again, this is what she's SR. You'll definitely get her if you have surslit. Definitely you're not going to be using her. But if you don't have surslit, she could be an option for hoplite fire. Okay, so next our last review will be Rita. Okay, so for the longest time Rita has been my mascot. I'm a bit biased towards her because of how I'm using her in my teams. Currently I'm using her in my team. Later I'll do an account showcase for both Vanguard account and the current one, which is APAC. The Vanguard is actually now a paid account. The other one is still free to play, the Asia Pacific. So we'll go to that later, this one. Again, just want to say that she hits hard. Bonus attack speed is actually nice because she gets to increase her basic attack, which she really, really needs, aside from the current buff, the recent buff that she was given. So you also need to increase crit rate if you can. Crit damage is at 150. And AD is her attack stat. Okay, so currently I'm using this one, Karota. I don't have anything good for her. So far this will do. And for her skills, let's go over all of her skills. Again, I wouldn't want to encourage you guys. I would like you guys to decide for yourself. If you want her on your team, the only reason I think that you will be getting Rita is if you don't have Fen. Because both of them are Rangers, but Fen is more of AOE oriented while Rita is more of single target. So again, you'll have to decide whether what style would you want to use. Again, it'll be your preference. They're both fire. They're both Rangers. But for Rita, let's go back to Rita first. Rita's skill. So this one, the basic attack, this one was recently buffed. So the rate of fire is kind of better than soft launch. The passive skill while burning effect was added to this one. This was kind of nerfed because the drone is actually going towards an ally. It doesn't go back. Rita can't use this drone. So that is kind of a debuff that they gave Rita. But I don't really mind because right now what I'm doing is I'm pairing Rita with Sir Slit. And it's really nice because the drone goes to Sir Slit. And again, you get my drift. So this one is basic attacks inflicts one stack of burning effects. So this gives burning effect to your basic attack. The drone here grants 15 bonus AD to an ally with the highest AD. So again, if you have Sir Slit, then it goes to Sir Slit. A burning unit takes continuous damage up to over 10 seconds. So this one is her first active skill. So Rita carries her anti-material rifle. Okay, this one, this active skill. I like this and I'm using this because of the interrupt and the knockback. This also has decent damage. But the interrupt and knockback is very good, especially if you are knocking back a garden or a hoplite. So this I prefer over this one. This one is anti-material. This one is metal slug. So this one is more of an area effect or area damage to this is dealing damage to enemies within a rectangular area. I don't really mind Rita not having an area damage or AOE damage. So I'm preferring this and this has four energy. So this, you know, cycles quick. So I'm going with this and for her ultimate. So this one has a very big damage of four, a single target monitoring them for eight seconds. So monitor is removed, two stacks of buff on the target hits that land and affected unit hits the land on the affected unit unit are 30% more likely to be critical hits. So additional hits, additional critical damage to hits because of this skill. So remove, okay, remove two stacks of buffs. So if they have buffs, so no, 30% more to have critical hits on the ultimate. Just want to rephrase that. Okay. So again, this one hits hard. This one is for utility interrupt and knockback. This helps you interrupt bosses, especially if you're pairing her with Gildan. Both of them can interrupt a boss in front and this one is for the drone to highest AD with burning effect to your basic attack. So what do I think of her? I think she's amazing. The way her kit is built before she can buff herself with the drone now, it's a small trade off. It's actually unfair if it goes to her, but right now it goes to Sirslet, then I am really happy. The highest AD is going to be buffed by that rope. So we go to the awaken portion, damage mitigation, bonus physical damage. This one, I took the increased physical damage by 30% with no enemies, exists within six meter ranges. She's definitely far, very far from the nearest enemy. So this will definitely trigger unless she is dashed by Eluya, rarely happens, usually happens in PvP. But for PvE, she's going to have a feast actually with this one. This one is when a target knocked back by anti-material, they become grounded. So this one when knocked back, they're going to stick there for a couple of seconds. But I prefer this one, the metal slug. No, this is with the metal slug. If you're going to be using knockback, definitely, if you're going to be using this skill, definitely you're going to choose this. For this one, this is metal slug. This is the other skill in the right side. So this will disarm. Again, you have to align your skill with your awaken tree, otherwise it's going to miss much. But this is actually good. This arm cannot perform basic attacks. So metal slug is this one. So you have to align them. If you want to use this, you have to take this one. Okay, for five, so Predator YH, this is the ultimate. This one is extended duration, increased monitor targets, crit damage taken from pyro character, but by an additional 30%. This is only good if that character has high crit rate. Again, if low crit rate, crit damage won't take effect. But this one is also good. If you don't want to risk not dealing crit damage, this one is also good because damage increases by 30%. This is fine. Phase six is this is on the effect of the drone. This one is more defensive. This is a shield of the target. So if you have Sir Slit, it's going to be a shield. This one, this is more offensive. So during moveable armories, the duration extends by four and increase the buff targets, basic attack damage by 50%. So this is increased duration and more basic attack damage. So definitely, I'd go with this because again, the target is going to be Sir Slit. So again, guys, what do you think of Rita? For me, again, I don't think she's also a must pull, especially if you're with Fen. If you don't like single target damages, then you go with Fen. Fen is more AoE. Again, it's good to have the both of them. If you have Fen already, if you want to go for Rita, it's good to have both of them because again, Rita will help you in taking down bosses. While Fen will take down the back line, it will help you because of the AoE. I don't think she's going to be a must pull. But just be sure that you have units that can take down bosses, units that have the ability to be used in single target opponents. That is actually just my warning. If you don't have those, better get Rita for single target. Plus, she has a buff for your highest AD character, which most likely, if you have Sir Slit, it will be Sir Slit. I've been bragging about this because I'm using that team. I'm using Gildan, Sir Slit, and Rita, and my current healer that I'm trying out is actually Screamer. So that's a fire team with Gildan in it. So again, I'm happy with that team. So far, work wonders for me. Clearing stages, clearing bosses, even for PVP. So that is it guys. Again, my last thought. If you're not summoning for Nuno and if you lack a single target damage dealer, go for her banner. If you got Nuno and if you have nothing left for Rita, it's okay because again, you still I think have options, other options, especially if you have Fen. Also, if you want to skip her banner, she's not really a must pull. If you want to save up for the next one, then be my guest. But again, as for me, I'm keeping Rita and if I didn't have her this account, I'll definitely pull for her. So again guys, comment down in the comment section. I'd love to hear from you your builds. Do you think of pulling for Rita or not? And that's it. So thank you very much for staying this far.  This is the Warden and I'm out of here.


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Hello everyone, welcome back to Mind Pump. In this episode we talk about lifting heavy versus lifting light. The pros, the cons, what's better for building muscle, which is better for building strength, you're going to learn all about it right here in this episode. Finally, we have another channel called Mind Pump Clips where we've taken short segments from these longer episodes so that you can easily share them and enjoy them in a much shorter period of time. Go over to Mind Pump Clips and subscribe and enjoy the rest of this show. All right, check this out, there's two main ways to strength train. The first one is to make heavy weights feel light. The second one is to make light weights feel heavy. Both have tremendous value. I love this point and I know you did this as a fitness tip a while back and I think it was our friend Ben Pakolsky I heard say it like you lift like a bodybuilder one way and then you lift like a powerlifter the other way and in learning how to visualize what does that mean or what does that look like is I thought was a really powerful analogy for trying to teach the average lifter what you mean. Those are the two best examples because powerlifters and bodybuilders both lift weights, right? They both strength train, they both build muscle, they both develop their bodies and their intent is completely different. It is and they both do like similar exercises. I mean there's definitely exercises bodybuilders do that powerlifters don't do and there's certain exercises that powerlifters do that bodybuilders don't do much but there's so much crossover, right? So in fact back in the day bodybuilders and powerlifters train quite similarly back in the day and they both develop tremendous physique. They both build lots of muscle, lots of stuff but boy do they lift differently and I don't mean differently as in different exercises and stuff like that necessarily but even when you watch them do the same exercises watch a bodybuilder do a bench press, watch a powerlifter do a bench press, watch a bodybuilder squat versus a powerlifter, watch them do a row, watch them do even curls with powerlifters only a lot of curls but some of them do lots of curls, will do curls to protect the biceps for certain exercises like deadlifts. The intent and the technique are very different and it's literally it can be broken down like this. A powerlifter is always trying to make heavy weight feel as light as possible and a bodybuilder is always trying to make a light weight feel as heavy as possible. It's a very, very different approach to lifting. Well I would also say that bodybuilders very much pay attention to the feel of the muscle versus the powerlifter, the movement in the technique. Yes. But that falls in line with yes they're trying to get if you're a powerlifter you're trying to move the weight as efficiently as possible with the least amount of, well the maximal amount of effort that's necessary. Versus like a bodybuilder you're going to want to make everything extra difficult for your muscle to endure. No, this wasn't in your notes to talk about this but this conversation I've thought about this conversation a lot and curious to what you guys think. Do you think that one of these characters, okay so you have bodybuilder, do you think one of them benefits more from training like the other than the other one does? You understand what I'm asking? Yeah, really good question. Right, like who do you think gets it? When they cross over who has the biggest response. Yes, like you have two different types of ways of training and we obviously we agree that both have carryover both see benefits but do you think that one of them gets a little bit more benefits than the other one? I do, I'm just curious what you guys. Well I'd like to hear what you have to say because if I think super high-level competitors it changes versus the typical like. Yeah, I can make the argument for power lifters actually going to bodybuilding and only from a longevity perspective. So I believe the bodybuilder gets more benefit from learning to train like a power lifter than the power lifter gets from learning to train like a bodybuilder. Why? Because the power lifter does not care how he looks at all like he could have a big old beer belly or whatever like that so getting certain muscles to fire better from them does not matter so much as it does moving the weight as efficiently as possible for their sport. So even though I do believe that they would get benefit from learning how to control specific muscles and to move out of that phase and feel the weight I do like I don't disagree with that I just think that the bodybuilder though would get tremendous benefits from learning how to just move the bar. I think that he will build more muscle. Yeah. He will build more and building more muscle in the game of building an aesthetic physique tends to have more value than maybe the power. That's my I think you can make an argument for that. My argument would be more around in terms of like joint health and longevity and you know power lifters it's just the risk reward goes up like quite substantially especially over time so to shift then into bodybuilding. That's a good point. I feel like they will be able to keep up their training going up into their 60s 70s 80s like much more effectively than they would maintaining this like power lifting. You know what's interesting about this conversation is because I followed both sports quite a bit when I was younger and what's interesting is there's periods of time where bodybuilders will borrow or use more powerlifting techniques and then there's periods of time where power lifters will borrow or use more of the bodybuilding techniques like like I remember there was a period there where bodybuilder excuse me power lifters would talk about how just hypertrophy and growth contributed to their lifts and so you know you should definitely go through kind of these these bodybuilding phases. I remember when power lifters it was a big debate as to whether or not trained the biceps was even important and then power lifters said well yeah look at these bicep tears that a lot of guys are getting you know doing these deadlifts and so then they kind of start incorporating and then there was periods where bodybuilders did lots of powerlifting cycles and I mean it was actually you know bodybuilding had a lot of powerlifting in the early days and then it kind of went away to the point where bodybuilders didn't even do the big three lifts maybe just bench press but nobody deadlifted and squatted and then you had periods of time when they did you know Ronnie Coleman famously squatted and deadlifted was also a powerlifter before he was ever a bodybuilder and today you're seeing more bodybuilders high-level bodybuilders start to incorporate those movements because they're getting these these huge results there's just a lot of there's a lot of carry over and there's pros and cons to both now I think of the average lifter when I think of the average lifter I think it's pretty even because I think of the average lifter yeah that adopts mainly bodybuilding stuff or the average lifter that adopts mainly powerlifting type techniques and ideologies they're both missing out I would say quite equally on what they could accomplish with their body even if your goal is just to be I don't think there's any debate there I don't think there's any debate around the general population getting equal value from both I mean you could throw in mobility and sports performance training in there right with that too and make the same case sure if you're just an average gym goer who is just trying to be healthy and strong and fit and mobile and active and you know minimal to no joint pain then cycling through all those modalities is ideal for that person and miss in not doing one of them you're you're you're missing out on tremendous benefits but I'm thinking at the highest level who is who would get the the most benefit for the carryover so like if you took a top level bodybuilder versus a top level power right and say they can see that argument right and they both neglected that you know not training like the other one who gets the most benefit from that and I guess I'm also speaking from personal experience because you were in that you were in the bodybuilding space right I was always in that even when I was not like competing yeah I was always in the the business of sculpting my physique or that's what I cared about the most it's it is interesting how both spaces can almost sometimes show disdain or make fun of the other space sure right like your bodybuilders look at the power look you're fat or you're not you know developing this or I don't care how much you lift or whatever and the power lifts look at bodybuilders you guys are weak you know oh that's nice you look good but yeah can you do this yeah can you do this or that it's um it's really interesting I do want to be clear because someone might get confused and think this is about exercises oh power lifters do these exercise body was to some extent that's true but that's how we're talking about no what we're talking about is take the same exercises how they move the weight that's it I don't care what the exercise is in fact there is a heavy make heavy weight feel light mentality and there's a make lightweight feel heavy mentality that you can apply to any exercise that you can do in strength training I don't care what the exercise you could be a curl you can make a heavy weight feel light with a curl or you can make a lightweight feel heavy with a curl and that's what we're talking about so because I think we've made the case enough on our podcast that the all these all exercise have value and that the big compound lifts probably have the most value but man can you do a squat a dead lift bench press and overhead press which we consider like the big four right can you do them with completely different intent make them feel and look completely different based on what we're talking about yes absolutely 100 yes and so that's what we're talking about and so what you could do with your workout is without even changing the exercises you could go in there with one type of mentality or another type of mentality and what you'll get out of both are pros and cons and it's important to know what the strengths and weaknesses are because then what happens is you could take your programming and knowing the strengths and weaknesses you can phase your training you can mold your training so that you and this is what this is always the goal with exercise program is what makes really good coaches this is what makes great coaches great coaches is they know how to maximize the pros and minimize the cons shitty programming does the opposite minimizes the pros maximizes the cons right so that's what we're really talking about because I know people are going to think oh well it's the exercises no it's the intent no no I mean this really to me highlights a seasoned lifter one that has this ability and I know we're mainly talking about you know the the power lifter and bodybuilder mindset but I would throw athletic training in there also totally because I think that you know learning to come in with that you could do and again with athletic training if we were to add that to this this group you you could do all the same exercises but they end up being completely different with the mindset you go into it simply how you go about the in fact I would compare heavy and light to what we're saying with athletic training to maximum performance to correctional exercise because maximum performance is very much like making heavy weight feel light correctional exercise is very much like making lightweight feel heavy so it's a very very similar that's a similar comparison that's why this is such a good general category that applies to all strength training pursuits and depending on what your goal is and how you're working towards that goal you'll spend more time in one versus the other but everybody should spend some time in both well and this is important because I I'm realizing that we get more calls of people that will apply the same type of mindset going into other programs that have a very similar structure of exercises and they're looking at it from the way that they would approach those same reps with that heavy mindset right like they're trying to move the weight as effectively as possible when in fact we've increased the number of reps when in fact the whole protocol is different and more geared towards you know that lighter mindset making the lightweight heavy so it's it's an important concept to bring into your workouts totally what's up everybody here's a giveaway for today's episode maps aesthetic this is the bodybuilding style maps program and it's free for you if you do this and if you win leave a comment below in the first 24 hours that we drop this episode subscribe to this channel turn on notifications if we do if you do all three of those things and we like your comment we'll notify you only in the comment section we'll tell you that you won though that program for free now of everybody else we got a sale going on right now check this out maps symmetry 50 off and maps strong 50 off so both real popular programs both half off if you want to sign up or learn more click on the link at the top of the description below to get started all right here comes a show all right so let's talk about heavy for a second so what makes a heavy weight feel light it's maximizing efficiency maximizing efficiency so when i'm lifting away by the way i'll again i want to be clear in both scenarios i am not talking about crappy form in fact good form is important for both of them so again i don't want people get confused but oh maximizing efficiency i'm going to make this shitty form so i can move the way no that doesn't work in fact if you have shitty form with heavy weight you're going to hurt yourself so it's always good form but the intense different you're maximizing efficiency of the lift when you're trying to make a heavy weight feel light so what does that mean that means you're moving the bar in a way that allows you to max to lift as much weight as possible with this minimal effort as possible with your body you're looking for no leaks in energy you're not looking for feeling a muscle squeeze like when you're bench pressing a heavy weight and you're trying to make it feel light what you're not doing is saying let me feel this in this part of my pack or in my triceps or my shoulder you don't care about that no the goal is how can i lift this weight feeling tight controlled and efficient how do i move how do i make this movement uh in a way to where i can move as much weight as possible with this minimal injury of risk that's what i think by maximizing efficiency and you are trying to organize your entire body from head to toe in effort in that effort yes which is the opposite of the other category right you are within when you are lifting like this you are literally thinking from your toes all the way up to your neck yes how everything is engaged to now move this bench press this squat this snatch whatever yeah well it's my orchestra versus single uh instrument sort of analogy thing like you have to like make sure that everything is is together and it's in unison versus you know really isolating and trying to find that one instrument that's yeah what's funny so we'll get to the the the other side here for a second but just to use a simple example i was thinking about if you're doing like a row i say you're doing a barbell row or dumbbell row and you're trying to make heavy weight feel light you've got a i'll just use one example you've got a hard grip on that dumbbell or that bar you are squeezing the shit out of it and you're moving that weight you'll often see bodybuilders who are trying to make a lightweight feel heavy use a grip like this where the bar is at the ends of their fingertips or they'll do a curl sometimes like this with the wrist cock back with barely where you're not going to be able to lift nearly as much weight with that but what they're trying to do is disengage certain muscles to feel other muscles whereas if you're making heavy weight feel light you're like turn everything on let's go i want all the muscles i can't help me move this yeah i mean you're considering when you're moving heavy weight to how you have to anchor your body and how you have to create these ground forces and and create basically make sure that no rotation happens within any joint yes for certain types of movements and so it's like becoming as rigid as possible throughout your whole body so that way now we can perform a very vertical line as effectively and efficiently as possible totally so what's the focus feel like for this well if you've ever watched a powerlifting meet it can actually be kind of weird if you've never done powerlifting maybe even intimidating lots of face slapping and smelling ammonia and you know angry music and you are psyching yourself piping up you are going in and you are like because you're trying to do is you're trying to get your cns as fired up as possible and then when you get under the bar or you you grab the dumbbells it's like turn everything on and let's go right and lift the weight it's a very different focus from you know when you lift a lighter weight to try to make it feel heavy you are going in there and you are like go through this weight make it happen and make it happen in a very efficient possible way possible this is important to understand because the focus that goes into your lift will contribute greatly to to the type of lift that you do and the kind of results that you get from it oh i think that the rituals that people like to do before lifts uh bode themselves well here as yes in in comparison to the other group like in fact i didn't even ever really get into that until i started like powerlifting until i started trying to lift singles and doubles and did i ever get into this like little how i walk up to the bar right how i position my feet my hips when i do my arms like you need that to replicate oh yeah i never did that i trained for over 10 years uh of just getting on the bar and actually thinking like what sal said relaxing a lot of parts of my body yeah like oh opening the wrist up relaxing okay just just think about the chest and not trying to tense up anything so there wasn't this like ritual to get under the bench like so i benched so different today because it is this kind of combination of a powerlifter and a bodybuilder yeah so i have this like get out of there get wedged under get ground my feet real tight but then pull off like a bodybuilder relax so it's it's really so if someone were to pick me apart like that they would totally make fun of me because i i don't really identify as one or the other it's that i've taken some things that i really like from what i learned from training like a powerlifter and then things that i've learned from training like a bodybuilder and i've combined and it makes it and it makes it work out so much more for sure what are some of the pros of lifting like this again we're talking about the average person here okay lifting like this really does a great job of building overall muscle you're gonna build more general overall muscle in your body because of the sheer tension that's involved when you're moving maximal weight it's not just that it's and it's something that you said and i used to repeat it all the time after you said it because it was like the first time i'd ever heard anybody say it this way and i haven't repeated in a long time is when you used to give the the amplifier analogy to the speakers i love that analogy and i never thought about powerlifting and training like you know where you're trying to really fire the cns and and basically i'm investing in building my central nervous system it's efficiency turning up that amplitude and anybody who understands how speakers work knows that you can have the most expensive baddest hugest subwoofers in the world but if you have some cheap ass you know 200 watt amplifier you ain't gonna get shit out of those speakers and in fact most people that really understand stereosis it would argue that the amplifier and tuner is the most valuable part of the speaker system and so i and that's why i love that analogy because i think like when you when you get into training like a powerlifter you are really learning how to build an efficient central nervous system and and that's what i felt i got out of training this way was i now learned how to call upon my muscles like i never have before because i had never put a lot of effort towards the amplifier i'd always put this effort towards the speakers right then you get so much more effective and efficient and energy management so when you're moving around you are able to apply that instant the the maximum amount of force that you need but not no more right and you're able to relax your body and move fluidly so it definitely applies to athletics as well as it does powerlifting so i mean that's just something that will apply to a lot more real world situations too because you have to organize your entire body a lot of times to lift something off the ground to put something overhead so a lot more real world kind of functional strength that yes i feel like what do you mean by functional strength i've heard people say it's all functional yeah okay technically that's true however in the real world when you're moving couches and boxes and your tv and whatever you're not trying to make those things feel heavier you want to make them feel lighter so this kind of training lee it it it lends itself better to real world applicable strength because if you've ever worked with a blue collar worker and you've ever done hard labor with them what you see with them i mean you i've worked with men in their 60s doing stuff like this and what you see is incredible efficiency like they can do things that i can't because they've learned how to become so efficient not to mention they don't give a shit how good your chest looks they want to make sure you can pick up that you're lifting your couch i don't give a shit your pecs look good if you can't help help with your end yeah exactly i say you lift the couch you're not thinking like lads you're not like hey your chest looks really good bro nobody care they pick up the couch and let's move it let's make this happen it builds a very solid body i have no no like i don't think there's any studies that support this but this is this has been you know i don't know strength training anecdote or wisdom for decades which is training in this way tends to produce this very granite hard solid feeling body now bodybuilders in the 60s and 70s they would go through power lifting cycles because they would say the same thing like arnold would say it gives me a granite look to my body so it does tend to build this really solid tight strong dense looking body from a visual standpoint i remember adam when you were bodybuilding and you switched over to the style of training just for a short period of time you even commented that it made your body feel that way or look that way so it's really interesting i would i would argue to the death of me that there's a huge difference yes and i and i don't know if it's more about the heavy lifting or it's more about training for the pump is more about fluid that you're teaching your body to be able to hold in cells and so that gives you this temporary temporary temporary inflation or look to the muscle versus lifting really heavy weight gives you kind of this permanent look that's and that's how i would describe it to somebody on like what i notice a difference like when i trained like a bodybuilder for so many years i used to always have this feeling of when i drank all the fluid and got in there and i lifted i looked i looked twice my size but then 20 minutes later that would all kind of air out and then i feel like i did you could barely tell i really lifted that much that's how i felt right and it wasn't until i started power lifting that i get this look where i built muscle and maybe i didn't look as filled out as the pump look gave me but it looked like i built legitimate muscle that didn't need to be aired up to look bigger right that makes sense like that that was the way and and so i don't know if that's more that's the theory the theory is that the the actual contractual tissue the muscle fibers grow more with this kind of training versus the other style which also grows muscle fiber but also adds to all of the non muscle fiber structures and muscle glycogen fluid capillaries all the which also makes up the size i mean 70 percent of your muscle is not muscle fiber it's all that other stuff so that's the theory we don't have any evidence like scientific evidence to support it but we've got decades of strength athletes talking about you know this particular well i think too that besides the back that's definitely an obvious one to see you know different style of training you could see somebody who's probably doing more power lifting or compound lifts you know what that does to their back but really their core is very much something that stands out and just seeing somebody that's you know more a little more focused on the heavy end you can see what that does to their obliques you could see what that does to everything you know in their back and their rectors like it's just it's one of those things that if you don't do it you just don't see a pronounced visual representation of that right now so talk about the cons now so what it's everybody's oh this is great this is how i want to train all the time ah not so fast there's some cons one of them is a higher injury risk for sure yeah this style of training risk reward is far more prone to injury far more prone to injury because with this style of training you're always pushing the limits of how much weight you can lift and yes you are trying to maximize efficiency but as the weight gets heavier and heavier the smallest of inefficiencies in your lift can produce high risks of injury i mean if you're squatting 500 pounds and your technique is off by a half a degree um that could hurt you right away i mean you could totally get hurt you're pushing heavy weight you're pulling heavy weight you're you're firing your cns you're psyching yourself off you're and so the risk of injury just because the weight the sheer weight even with good form i mean a perfect form with the same lifter right a perfect form 500 pound squat has a higher injury risk than a perfect form 200 pound squat obviously with the same lifter even if they make the 200 pound squat feel heavy with what we're about to talk about so the risk of injury is much higher the other part is training this way tends to definitely definitely stresses the connective tissue the ligaments and the tendons much more because those are things that the muscle anchors to and so what you'll find if you train like this all the time all the time all the time is you just start to get sore joints and you start to get sore at the insertion point i would i would add another con to this um i find uh this one feeds the ego more therefore it's tougher for me to move away from it after i'm in it if that makes sense because when i when i'm hitting PRs and i'm i'm seeing weight on the bar more than i ever have i like that and i'm not even a power lifting guy i'm a bodybuilder guy and yet when i see like oh man this is the most weight i've ever squatted oh this is the most i did live i want to keep going i want to stay in that it's difficult for me to tell myself like i need to move away from this i would you know what this is a good point yeah this is interesting yeah but i'll say this i'm gonna agree but i'm also gonna bring on to the point because i think it could be both sides yeah i think when you're bulking this is great when you're cutting now i've messed with the ego if i'm trying to get if i'm trying to get leaner and i'm trying to lift heavy now my ego is getting hurt if i'm trying to bulk with the make the lightweight feel heavy thing and i'm all interested in body sculpting that's what it messes with my ego so i think they both can mess with your ego depending on the way of your training and maybe even the i do see the big ego attachment there of prs uh because it is a big focus is the loading of the weight and then but on the other end of it i've obviously you'll see the ego come out through the size of your muscle and the visual of it right so it's it's interesting to think about it but that's definitely there i mean obviously i'm speaking from personal experience right so everyone has probably their their own journey um but i've i've lived in both spaces i would think that i actually identify as a bodybuilder type of person more than i do a powerlifter yeah no doubt it's hard to see the weight go down yeah it is and and and even for a guy who doesn't care about that as much it's it you can get you can get uh uh in that race to keep putting more and more when you start seeing numbers go up or seeing numbers that you've never seen before even though i know better it's time for me to move out so personally i would list that as an added con i never have that problem with bodybuilding when i'm lifting like a bodybuilder and i'm trying to make a lightweight feel heavy weight becomes arbitrary to me yeah so moving to low reps high reps being low carb high carb oh i'm weak it doesn't it doesn't matter i'm all in my mind i'm always weak like i'm always trying to make myself feel weak no matter what is on the bar when i'm when i'm in full bodybuilder mode but when i'm in powerlifting mode strength guy i am looking at the weight and that's actually one of my best indicators of like oh i'm moving the weight good because i'm getting stronger and stronger so i find that one of the cons is that it's hard to move away from it because the the chasing the weight on the bar can become very yeah i could see that all right so let's talk about making lightweight feel heavy all right so now what you're trying to do okay in the context of good form rather than maximizing efficiency you're actually trying to maximize inefficiency i'm trying to make the weight feel heavy as heavy as possible can i make these 20 pound dumbbells with this overhead press fry my shoulders like if i was lifting 60 pound dumbbells and and you can do this if you get really good at this bodybuilders are the best at this a really really good bodybuilder could work out with weight that you would look at and be like why are they using such lightweight and yet they'd get a phenomenal workout and a crazy pump it's all about maximizing the inefficiency of the exercise so that example like you could see one way to achieve that is to not fully lock out so they maintain this muscle tension that's why they'll start doing that so they'll start doing things like that that will show up to really stress the muscle even more the entire set of reps that you're doing and then also like tempo it will show up in angles lots and lots of angles well i like the tempo is a big one yeah that to me that that's like like again going back to what i was saying before about like weight is it doesn't matter anymore to me because it doesn't matter what exercise i'm doing it's going to be heavy so like like what i love about this is that when i'm training with this mindset and i come to gym and i put weight on the bar it actually doesn't matter if i got good sleep or bad sleep with that i can and i can start with a what could be or maybe i got great sleep but i feel really doesn't matter i put 135 on the bar and 135 i'm gonna make heavy yes no matter what whether i had great sleep not good sleep or is it naturally already heavy because i didn't get those things or maybe i got great sleep and fully fed and so it feels like it doesn't matter it's gonna end up feeling heavy because i'll mess with tempo which is how i used to teach people with form like i would always when a client would ask me oh let's go up and wait this is easy for me i say oh then we'll just slow down the last three to four reps let's make it heavy let's take those last ones slow and and i would manipulate tempo all the time to make these weights actually good two things i want to point out one is i forgot to mention this con with the heavy making heavy weight feel light which is it's hard to bring up a lagging body parts with this because your because you're making an exercise as efficient as possible if that means when you squat you engage your quads more than your glutes so be it that's what's going to end up happening right so then you may under develop your glutes and that's what ends up happening and if you continue to train by making heavy weight feel light well you're going to continue to use this pattern that works best for your body meaning you're not going to bring up the slagging body part well now we get to the lightweight the goal is to focus on the target muscle this is so when we talk about tempo and we talk about you know maximizing inefficiency really what this is it's all about the feel it's all about the feel so if i'm doing a squat heavy to make it feel light i don't give i don't care if i feel my quads hamstrings or my glutes or whatever let's just move it in the way that moves the weight the best yeah okay when i'm bodybuilding where i'm doing this make lightweight feel heavy i'm thinking what muscle i'm trying to work i'm trying to work my glutes all right let's make the squat let's put this lightweight on the bar and let's move in a way with a slow tempo but also this is the most important part because you could do slow tempo and still do this wrong you could go slow tempo and still train without targeting what you're trying to target it's all about the feel 100 about the feel not the feel like how do i make this weight feel light but rather how do i feel the muscles that i'm trying to work by the way studies show this studies show this quite clearly that when people do this they do activate target quote unquote target muscles even better so this is all about feeling the muscle versus heavy weight where it's not about feeling the muscle at all it's all about feeling the movement so this allows you to target and squeeze specific parts of your body this is when you can take an exercise like a row and i can make it hit my lats i can make it hit my rhomboids or metropesias or if i want to i can even make a row of my biceps more than my than all those other muscles yeah i mean this is one of those things they talk about is the mind muscle connection this is where i always got the most value from this especially like introducing it to clients as well as just yeah you slow the tempo down but really you do have a lot of control as to how many muscle fibers you recruit based on how much you're focused on that muscle group and how much squeeze and feel that you can produce so it's very valuable in a sense to figure out you know if there are you know maybe some weak areas maybe some muscle groups that are underdeveloped that we can then direct all our focus there and we can really like make a massive impact by focusing mind muscle uh to that area well this is why to bring us to the second point why the focus is so different getting up to lift right so i'm getting ready to power lift i have this ritual you know the way i step up the way i grip the floor what i do with my arms like this whole ritual to come in the bar when i'm thinking a bodybuilder i'm actually already thinking i'm already before i even get to the bar i'm flexing the muscles that i'm going to go hit yeah because i want to make sure i'm i'm i'm i'm so i'm climbing them for yeah i'm already connected so well that i can i can i can activate my back just thinking about it yeah so i'm gonna get ready i'm gonna go do a bit over row right now and i'm already i'm already starting to fire my back without any resistance because i know when i get under that bar that's i want to think about that the entire time so the the thought process and the even the the walk up to the bar is a different process than what it is when i'm getting ready to just rip the most weight i'm trying to do it's calm focus yeah whereas with the heavy weight it's like angry you know psych up it's totally different you're watching videos of lifters like ah and they yell and ah and that's like let's go move some heavy weight when it goes to like bodybuilding style it's like quiet and it's calm and it's focused i'm not trying to get oversight in fact over psyching myself up with making lightweight feel heavy ruins the exercise if i go to do a squat and i want to just feel it in my glutes if i over psych myself up i'm going to not feel it in the target muscles i'm just going to move the weight hell easy and i'm going to have to add weight to it versus i got to go in there calm it's just still focused but you're calm focused and i'm visualizing the muscle i'm visualizing the action of the muscle okay the glutes extend at the hips that's the movement that i'm trying to really focus on even though i'm doing the extension with the squat too i'm focusing more on hip extension right or when i'm benching right okay i want to feel it in the chest what was the chest do right that's that's this what's called adduction of humerus it's bringing the humerus closer to the center of my body so i'm getting under the bar calm focused and when i push the bar it's almost like i'm trying to disengage the triceps i'm trying to just make the chest do the work i'm literally like we're saying in this episode making the lightweight feel as heavy as possible i also focus way more on the eccentric portion than i do totally because yeah there's like no eccentric right well i mean still eccentric but it's all i mean they are but stay in tight control that's just not yeah it's less it's less it's less important when you're trying to move as much way as possible you you're not you're not necessarily trying to resist it as low as you can and activate that muscle on the way down if anything you're trying to conserve energy on the in eccentric what you're trying to do what's called stay in the groove yeah with your eccentric right with this i'm resisting it can i still feel the target muscle i'm trying to resist it which there is an art to that like it's it's relatively easy for the average lifter to fill a muscle on the concentric portion because there you're contracting that muscle so it's like oh okay yeah i feel the bicep but when you let it go down can you resist it with the bicep or it's real easy to press with your chest because you need those muscles to press it off but then can you resist it with the chest on the way down and not allow all those other muscles to kick in there's the art to this and there's where that focus comes in so when you come into a lift and i'm thinking like a body builder a lot of my focus is on the eccentric portion of the exercise and staying connected to that muscle during that entire and to me that is one of the the biggest glaring differences when i look at like my powerlifter friends standing next to a bodybuilder when if you if you pick apart their eccentric portion of the exercise you go oh it's you can tell it's and it's you got to use comp using use compound list for this example because i think it's easier to visualize because everybody's like well with the curl i could feel okay uh try doing a row and on the way down can you feel the lats on the way down or do you just lower the so what up with us when you're making heavy weight feel light what you're trying to do is you're trying to lower the bar in the efficient groove get into the groove so that i can push it up right when you're trying to feel the muscle you're like can i lower this while still feeling the target muscle this is a very this is a skill by the way both of these are skills i want to i want to be very clear both of what we're talking about are skills that you develop through practice and when you develop them and okay here's your evidence right here take an athlete that always trains heavy put them in a bodybuilding workout and watch them do lifts and you and bodybuilders will be like man that guy is not targeting the rear delt that guy's not hitting his lats that guy's not then take a bodybuilder have him do powerlifting and you watch them do a squat or a deadlift and it's like what are they doing they're they're individual either make the moving each muscle individually why don't they maximize in the lift or whatever it's a skill so practicing both of these gets you good at both of them by the way this makes you a master at strength training essentially yeah if you can if you can do that in a compound lift you are you are getting close to mastery i think of lifting i actually used to teach it with an an isolation exercise tricep push downs are my favorite try and i know you guys have had so many clients that do a tricep push down everybody fills it on the way down yeah but resisting it on the way back they let the cable yeah take it take it up or they tense their bicep up or they tense their shoulders up and they're like they don't feel it in their tricep at all so it's one of my favorite ways to teach what i'm trying to communicate right now on what we're trying to do in every exercise so if we are doing chest right now all the checks are to do i want you thinking on the way down resisting with the chest when we're doing these tricep push downs resisting it with the triceps and if you've never trained this way and you apply this i swear you get massive benefits from i mean research has already shown that the eccentric portion is one of the most valuable portions as far as building muscle yes but part of that research is is taking into consideration you're doing it properly if you're not if you're not resisting properly with with your triceps on a tricep extension then that you you're not going to make the case that's the key right there is yeah you're you're doing a negative with heavy weight but are you building the target muscle or are you just getting better at that exercise right right because here's here's the pros of making lightweight feel heavy this is how you bring up lagging body parts it you know by the way people who have lagging body parts and they work out regularly now sometimes it's because they don't train that body part so sometimes it's like yeah my calves aren't developed but and you're like well do you work out your calves well no barely but oftentimes it's like man i can't build my glutes but i squat and i deadlift and i do single leg deadlifts and i do this and you know oh but i can't develop my my lats but i do pull ups and rows and whatever i can't build my chest i do all these different chest presses and that's because they're not doing this very well which is making that lightweight feel heavy and changing the focus this kind of lifting is great for being in up lagging body parts as opposed to what we talked about earlier which can be terrible for bringing up lagging body parts like if you could bench press a lot of weight but you don't have a well-developed chest just continuing to bench press heavy weight means your body's going to lift it the best way it knows how which is not use the chest very much right if you could squat really well but your glutes aren't developed um and going heavy isn't going to make your glutes grow anymore because you're just going to do it the way you've always done it so going light and focusing on those areas and the feel now allows you to really create that tension in that target body part so this kind of lifting is great this is when you want to bring up a lagging body part this is exactly what you do as you lighten the load and then you focus on the feel and here's another pro this is much lower injury risk much lower injury risk like the peak like the bodybuilders who are still training in their 60s and 70s and whatever and with no injuries this is how they always train they always train by making lightweight feel heavy they always trained with this type of mentality and they tend to not get injuries the bodybuilders with all the injuries you know I hate to say it the ones that really went super heavy all the time talking extreme because you can do both and keep them relatively safe but to be quite honest the injury risk is much lower with this kind of well this is the most appealing part of training this way in my opinion it means that I could virtually sculpt the the physique that I want with the least amount of risk that's what makes it so appealing that's what made it so appealing to me forever so training this way puts me at the least amount of risk and I also have the capability to build the best body I could I possibly get sculpting my physique which it is way more difficult to do that with a power lifters as I get older because I like heavy lifting I've always liked heavy lifting as I get older I appreciate this style of training more because of that right there because at some point you start to reach certain levels of strength where the injury risk just gets higher if your form isn't absolutely perfect or whatever and so this type of training because more appealing as I get older where you know now I'm more focused on this style of training versus when I was in my 20s and 30s yeah well to your earlier point like you just start to feel that that stress intention on your ligaments and your joints doing the heavy lifting over you know a long course of time it just adds up and and stresses it out versus this type of mentality it's just it's one of those things like because you're getting more blood circulation too and you're doing more reps like there's there's a bit of a healing element there as well that I've noticed like you know switching it over from doing that heavy you know a high risk style training versus this right now let's talk about some cons right so it's great you can hit those target body parts and those that's injury risk but here's a deal it's true and this is you know more so for people who are beginner intermediate like once you get super advanced um then then this is less of a con but this is in the beginning it's you're just not going to build as much muscle it's just total muscle right so if I take two lifters who are getting you know who only have maybe six months of lifting experience and one person I talked I teach them just to feel the muscle and squeeze the muscle with every single lift and the other one I'm like let's maximize your your your exercise efficiency and really learn how to lift as much weight as possible the person lifting most weights going to build the most total muscle it's just the fact it just does that so it's this this isn't as much of a big muscle builder which is probably why Adam you said the bodybuilders in the beginning would benefit a lot from power lifting style training because they would just gain new muscle from training in this particular way yeah I and I also think that it's it's kind of compounding right if you get to for example like if I've never squatted over 225 trying to focus on let's say building my glutes because I trained always like a bodybuilder and I never went through a power lifting phase that pushed me over 400 I could never go back and do 315 and control and focus on my squats good point you understand what I'm saying like if you always train with the oh wait doesn't matter like I did for so long you never really pushed those boundaries to new limits on your body I'm always floating around let's say with the 225 squats just slowing the tempo down just point and so what what it opened for me was and I know you squats and glutes which was not really a focus mine probably would have been better for me was my back analogy right like it really opened up the amount of mass that I could build on my back because I had never pushed weights like four or five hundred pounds in a dead lift so all of a sudden now I could it took me forever and I can't remember the exact numbers but for this for making my point I let's say I was rowing like on a seated row where I could really activate my lats and think about the muscles you know with you know 150 let's say I would say that was like a heavy heavy weight but light enough that I could really control rolling the shoulders feeling in my lats and that was probably at my peak strength after I stopped rowing did nothing but deadlifting got really strong I got up to 550 pounds deadlifting then I come back I could do that same controlled rowing with like 225 pounds and so it now allows me to train like a bodybuilder connecting to these muscles with a higher stress than I ever could before and it opened that for me where I don't think that bodybuilding would have done the same for the power lift yeah I think I mean it's it's that systemic effect right versus sort of a localized approach and and there's a lot of muscle groups and and stabilizer type muscles that you probably aren't stressing enough doing you know a more bodybuilder style training whereas like you every everything it gets affected because it's it's all up the kinetic chain you have to ground yourself you have to brace your spine like there's just more demand going in that direction which you do get sort of that carryover of of more muscle mass as a result I think I definitely think it's that and I think a big portion of it is going back to the amplifier analogy yeah yeah I upgraded my amplifier like I never had before I've had the I built the big you know 12 inch or whatever subwoofers forever that were top of the line that were awesome because I put years and years and years into making those but I had been running off the same amp for forever and for the first time in my life I upgraded my amp and I didn't just kind of upgraded I upgraded it to a whole another level and and and now that amp could could blow those speakers out the water now it gives me the opportunity to go build 18 inch subwoofers or 20 it's a very good point you know I'm saying like that's what's so amazing about that so I think a lot of that goes back to the the cns morning if I had to attribute what I think it was the probably the most value I would agree and lastly the strength that you build training this way is just less applicable to the real world because as I said earlier in the real world the last thing you want to do when you're using strength when you have to use strength is make something like feel heavy you don't want to make light things feel heavy in the real world because in the real world I'm not trying to develop my biceps and my rear delts and my rhomboids and my traps when I'm moving a table or a couch or you know doing something that requires some strength I'm trying to do the opposite it but if I always train my body to feel heavy light weight feel heavy then when I go try to move heavy things in the real world I don't have the skill have the skill to do so and this is where sometimes bodybuilders get a bad rap where bodybuilders will go and and they'll go do something physical or whatever and people will like my guy that guy's 250 pounds and he's not he's not you know he looks like he's way stronger than he really is really what it is is they got the muscle they just don't have the the ability they don't have the skill of of doing what we're you know what we're kind of talking about so if you want to build applicable strength then the other style of training is going to give you more of that than this but I think the big point to make is this is if you plan on making strength training something that you do for long for a long period of time or or hopefully for the rest of your life these both of these are equally important both of them have pros and cons and again the key is to maximize the pros minimize the cons in plain speak what does that look like well it looks like phasing in and phasing out of each one of these styles of training three to six weeks in one three to six weeks in another one and what do you get with that more consistent progress less injury and a better looking physique look if you like mine pump you got to check out mine pump free dot com that's where we have all of our free guides that can help with lots of health and fitness goals you can also find all of us on social media so justin is on instagram at mine pump justin adam is on instagram mine pump adam and you can find me on twitter at mine pumps out this one's really important and that is to phase your training if somebody trains for a full year doing a bench press and they're always aiming for five reps if you compared that person to a person who did bench press where they did three or four weeks of five reps but then they did three or four weeks of 12 reps and three or four weeks of let's say 15 to 20 reps and then they'll throw in some supersets at the end of that year you're going to see more consistent progress from the person who's moving in and out and less injury that's another thing you'll see less injury as well


Hello everyone, Myshell, Mr. Shivapai M. Maitgar, I am working as a student professor in computer science and engineering department at Valshan Institute of Technology, Solapur. The I welcome to the session on Network Hardware. The last video we have discussed about the uses of computer network, learning outcome. At the end of this session, students will be able to describe the concept of computer network hardware and the concept of PAN, LAN, WAN and MAN agenda about network hardware, personal area network, local area network, metropolitan area network, wide area network. These are the points I am going to cover in this video about network hardware, broadcast links and the point to point links. Broadcast link, broadcast simultaneous transmission of the same access to multiple recipient design. Broadcast if one user want to transmit the data to simultaneously more than two users, then that time they can use the concept of broadcast. Point to point, connect individual pairs of machines. It means one to one communication, we have to use the point to point concept. Unicasting, transmission with exactly one sender and one receiver is an inocasting point. Multicasting, single sender and multiple receivers on a network. For example, in one LAN connection only one server is there, multiple clients are connected to that LAN server. It means all the clients can get the data from the single server that is multicasting that is single sender and multiple receivers on a network. How many systems are get connected to that particular server? All the connected devices can get the information from the single server that is multicasting about network hardware. So, inter-processor, this is our distances, processor located in same. These are the examples. One meter that is a square meter that is an the example is in pan that is personal area network. The distance is in 10 meter, the processor is in room, it can be used in a room and then 100 meter building 1 kilometer campus. These three can be used in a local area network. 10 kilometer it can be used in city that is metropolitan area network. 10 kilometer, so 100 kilometer country and then 1000 kilometer continent it can be used in wide area network. 10,000 kilometer planet and then continent we have to use that is internet. This is in classification of interconnected processors by scale. First one is personal area network. These pan devices communicate over the range of person. If here in the pan devices limited area we have to use and then limited distances we have to cover by using the pan. The Bluetooth to connect these component without wires. If the pan connected devices is there in one places then it can covers that limited area. Then that limited if any one person can come to that area there is no need to use any cables then automatically it will get connected to that particular devices. Devices Bluetooth it means then when it there is no need to cables automatically it will get connected if that person is entered in that particular area that is pan. Pan can also built in in RFID on smart cards and library books to get the information. So, pan here is a example Bluetooth pan configuration. This is a one device these are another devices that is monitor key mouse keyboard and see if you these devices can be connected to this monitor if all the devices are there in a particular range whatever the range it may be. Local area network the group of computers connected within a building within a campus are in a home that we can call it as a local area network. It can covers the one home or city home or building or office. Lands have a higher data rate as compared to VAN that is 100 mbps to 40 gbps we have to compare that is VAN. Land do not have do not involves these lines cabling and equipment belong to the land owner. Okay corresponding to lower two layers of OSI reference OSI model but mostly land do not follow OSI model that is here. This is an wireless and this is a wire in a wireless the access point is there these are the devices get connected to this access point without using any cables these are laptops it is get connected to this access point if some other devices want to connect through wired means they can use this device that is the part that is two wired network. Okay here is Ethernet switch is there this is a Ethernet switch can contains different ports and then how many ports are there that many devices can be connected by using some cable that cable is an Ethernet cable if these are the ports get connected to that particular respective devices. Maybe if the user want to get connect some other devices means they have kept these port for remaining that is to rest of network this is wireless and wired lines. Ethernet that is IEEE 802.3 it is an most common type of wired line it can be used in a land to give the connection. Okay some sample topology for of switched Ethernet is in play standard it is also possible to divide one large physical line into two smaller logical lines. Okay both wires wireless and wired broadcast network can be divided into static and dynamic designs. Metropolitan area network this man covers city for example if the user want to distribute the television network then that time they can use a concept of man that is a cable television network. Okay high speed network has been standardized as 802 IEEE 802.616 and isn't popularly known as YMAX. A man uses distributed queue dwell bus and range within 100 kilometer of inner city that is man. Okay this is a simple example one diagram is antenna this user want to distribute television network to all the users are there in a city. These are the different offices or home it is there in a single city these offices or homes are get connected to that head office this one is get connected to the antenna this antenna can distribute the data to all the devices it can this antenna can covers the city. Okay that is the metropolitan area network on cable TV. Next this is a question answer section think and write it can contain one question what are the advantages and disadvantages of man. Now pass the video and answer the above question the answer for the above question is advantages it provides a good backbone for a large network and provides greater access to vans. The dwell bus used in man helps the transmission of data in both directions simultaneously. Okay a man usually encompasses several blocks of a city or an entire city. Disadvantages are more cable required for man connection from one place to another place. It is difficult to make the system secure from the hacker these are the advantages and disadvantages of man industrial equipment or graphical reasons also. Okay van it provides a longer distances transmission of data like vice image video audio these users if users want to transmit this data in that time it can use the van concept. Okay information over a large geographical area its range is beyond 100 kilometer. This is an sample diagram the satellite communication is there cellular connection is there and then here international offices are there and then mobile employees there and then some other places are there. By using wide array network concept all these devices can get the information that information may be the vice image video audio whatever it may be. They can get the information without using any media wider wired connection. Okay that is wide area network. Okay difference between land man van. Okay expands the local area network metropolitan area network wide area network range is an communication network links a number of stations same local area range is 1 to 10 kilometer here is 100 kilometer and then range is beyond 100 kilometer. Okay media use guided media here in guided media as well as unguided here we have to use unguided media. Then speed is in high speed that is the 100 kbps to 1000 so 100 mbps then optimized for a large geographical area than land. Longer distances long distance communication. Okay cost land is in cheaper it is a man is in costly and then expensive equipment NIC switch and hub we have to use and then in a man we have to use modemine router and then van we have to use microwave radio infrared laser. Okay these are the references I use for preparing the above ppt. Thank you.


Kindergarten, nursery and primary school. We have 485 children here at school and in 2016 we have started to think about a school garden and our school grounds to change into a climate adaptive schoolground. For us it's a school ground that provides lots of answers to climate change. We have worked on topics like heat stress, air quality, the infiltration of water and we work with the kids together on these topics so we use our school ground now as like an outdoor classroom to look for answers to investigate climate change together with our children. We have been involved in many partnerships like with the University of Antwerp and Catholic Education's Umbrella in Flanders on the Valise project and they have helped us out on looking on projects from a holistic way to create action competence. So education for sustainable development for us is linked to all of these things so we are trying to teach our children to look at challenges from a holistic way. We know that is the future. We try to have a whole school approach, have lots of links with the community and bring in that community, bring in experts that teach our children about all these challenges they are facing. But we also try to bring in lots of technology. So we have at school we have beehives, parents taking care of the bees so we sell our own honey. We have chickens here at the school and we use all of those things in our lessons as a teacher that's that's great because it makes learning real. But we also have like weather station, wildlife cameras and bird boxes because we know that kind of technology inspires the kids to be really active on learning outdoors. We have labeled all of our trees with Q air tags so every tree here on the school ground has its own online passport. We have a dashboard and we can learn the kids about what is growing here. I also learn a lot of new animals, insects, new trees and so on. And in the classroom we talk a lot about that so I think it's really fun and I think it's interesting and we can learn a lot of new things. I try to give impulses through steam activities, through mathematics, through language and I say okay when you work on garbage in the streets know that you are working on these goals. I will provide you the lesson, I will provide you the goals and just go out, do it, talk with your kids. When you work in the school garden you work on mathematics, you work on language. These are the goals that you can reach just by stepping out of the door and we don't have to travel really far, we just use this place and for the kids we know this is really inspiring and we notice that it creates something special.


Welcome back to the session on latex. In this session, we will learn to add some animation effects to the text in the slides. Sometimes, there is a need to display only certain text, rows of a table or certain items and we need to reveal them or unhide them one by one. Well, this is what we just did. In this session, we will learn how to achieve it. These can be achieved using commands given here. Let us examine them one by one. The pause command can be used to display the items one after another. It can also be used for text, blocks, tables, etcetera. The order in which the items appear is sequential. Let us have a look at a demo. Well, I already have some code written here for creating four slides. The first slide displays some list of colors using the itemize environment. The second displays list of some animals using enumerate environment. And the third displays basic alert and example blocks. Finally, the fourth one displays a table. Now, let us say the color red should appear first. The next slide the color blue and finally, on the another slide color green. So, we write pause after red slash P-A-U-S-E. Let us build and run. Notice that the red color appears on the first slide and the remaining two colors appear on the next one. Let us add a pause after blue as well. Build and run. Well, now all colors appear on different slides. So, when you view the PDF in presentation mode and move ahead you will see these items one by one. The placement and size of the text etcetera are taken care of by beamer to give an effect of animation. Please do try it out. Let us switch back to our slides. Using the pause command we displayed colors on different slides one by one, but they were in sequence. What if we want them to appear as red, green and then blue? Well, we can do this using overlays. Let us have a look at the demo. Let us modify the animal slide such that the actual position in the item should remain same. Only the sequence of the display should be lion, deer, tiger, elephant and then monkey. We do this by mentioning the order number in angular brackets. So, we write 1 dash for lion, tiger, 3 dash, elephant, 4 dash, deer, 2 and finally, monkey, 5. Let us build and run. Notice the way in which the items are displayed. First lion, then deer, then tiger, then elephant and finally, monkey. Well, the order number is also known as the slide number, but with respect to this slide only. For example, monkey appears on the fifth slide with respect to this particular slide animal. Now, what if we want to display the animal tiger on the slide number 3 only? So, we remove the hyphen. Build and run. So, now we have the tiger on the third slide only. This is how we change the display of the sequence of items. Let us see one more example with blocks. Let us write pause after the basic block and after the alert block. Let us build and run. So, first the basic block appears, then alert block and finally, the example block. Instead of pause, we can also mention the sequence in which the block should appear. Let us remove pause and add numbers. Let us add block number 1 hyphen, alert block on the third slide, 3 hyphen and the example block on the second slide, 2 hyphen. Build and run. So, first the basic block appears followed by the example block and followed by the alert block. Let us go back to our slides. We can also display the rows of a table one by one using pause command, but it will be in sequential order. Let us write slash onslide 1 hyphen. Note that the onslide command should be written prior to the items in that row. Let us display these rows in reverse. For example, we start with eraser, then scale, then pencil and then pen. Let us copy paste this and we change the numbers so that they appear in reverse order. So, eraser 2, scale 3, pencil 4 and pen 5. Let us build and run. Observe that the header row is displayed first, then eraser, then scale, then pencil and finally, pen. Using pause overlay and onslide, we did add some effects to our text in which some text was displayed and the other was revealed one by one. But one could not guess what was going to be displayed. It would have been nice if the text to be displayed revealed later on was displayed in faded gray color and gets a normal color when needed. The command to do this is set beamer covered transparent. Let us add it slash set beamer covered transparent. Build and run. Observe that the items to be revealed are faded and they appear in black when needed. In case we do not want this styling for all the overlays, then we write another command. Instead of transparent, we write invisible. Let us write this after the animals frame. Let us build and run. There you go. The color and the animal slides have the text faded out, but blocks and the stationary items do not have it. Let us switch back to our slides. These are the commands that we just saw. So, in this session, we added effects to our slides. Thank you. Have a nice day.