Thank you also for the to the Institute for arranging this. I think it's a really really very good timing of you to do this just a couple of months before the Irish presidency and I can tell you right away The latest on what's going on in the European Parliament on the reform of the common fisheries policy And that is that the vote that was expected in Fisheries Committee on the basic regulation Will be postponed So we thought it would be in in the beginning of October, but due to the negotiations, which are really complicated with more than 2,500 amendments to the Commission's proposal Now the time set for a vote in Fisheries Committee will be the 28th of November Which means that we will not be able to vote in plenary until Probably I would suspect after Christmas Christmas break so and Then it's you guys who will Swing the club at the president's table and will be also I think very much in charge of negotiations with the parliament on the final outcome of this reform and Yes, I was asked to give a title to to this speech and I Well, I thought it better just to say it right away lost turns to Change the European Fisheries and save our seas. I actually think this is it This is the moment because next time around we're going to reform the common fisheries policy will be in 2022 So in 10 years time. So this is the last reform was in 92 and now Things have not gone that splendidly since then Just to set the frame What we've seen since Well, since the last reform actually is 30% decrease in catches Which means that people that thought the last reform that being too harsh on environmental legislation and setting the prior the priority for conserving the the environment and the fish Because that would lead to sufferings for fishermen. They were wrong catches have gone down employment has gone down and Also profitability in the industry has also gone down Maybe you know that now the European Union is importing more than 60% of all fish that we consume and The idea I think why people Resist resisted a big reform in 1992 because they thought that it would be very important to have subsidies and and have kind of Compromise a balance between environmental Sustainability and economic and social sustainability because how how would things look like if we didn't have that I think it's this is a picture from your country now well from England and This is how normal catch could look back in 1900 and this was done with boats without Eco sound without Well fuel subsidies that most of them had sales and so on so it's important to keep in mind What is the if you if you're from the industry and perhaps you just want to know how what is the Production capacity of the seas and it's really really very much larger than we see now this is a picture of the North Atlantic and the colors the red color is Indicating biomass densities of over 11 tons of fish per square kilometer and In a hundred years, we've seen a decrease by between 70 and 90 percent of predatory fish in the Atlantic Ocean and It's interesting because it's not only the density the Number of fish but also the composition of the fish. What did the fish? I mean what types of species did we have what sizes did we have earlier on and This is a picture from from Florida, but it's the same North Atlantic Showing what these the anglers used to brag about on the case They always put the biggest catches out there to be photographed. So this is what it looked like a normal day in 1950s and In 1980s, this is what it looked like This is what it looks like now So basically we've changed very much the species composition also in the oceans through very efficient fishing methods that are very unselected when it comes to well Preserving the big the big fish which are also very important for the functioning of the marine ecosystem Okay employment and European Fisheries have gone down By the way, it's less than zero point two percent of total EU employment And since you all know that I'm from the Greens. I mean, I think it's really Quite upsetting that the concerns we have for this very small proportion of EU's working force Actually has led to the very dramatic degradation of wild nature nature in EU that is In fact in terms of size it's as big as the terrestrial Countries well the EU's seas is that way and These are very fresh figures on the economic performance of different EU member states If this is The net profit as a total percent percent of total income is actually on the negative side Should be that word because Sweden is also on the negative side and Finland and Slovenia So it shows that it's really not going very well in 2009 These are from the European Commission in 2009 the entire EU Fisheries Settler was doing with subsidies a lot So I think it's net profit without subsidies exactly without subsidies Was mine as I'm here but last year's going upwards Slightly but only a few percent So in short if we don't have a reform what will happen if we don't do anything According to the Commission only eight out of 136 Commercial exploited stocks will be within safe biological limits in 2022 when we have the next chance of reform We will lose one stock after the other there would be Even more degradation of the marine ecosystem more jobs will be lost and Increased needs of import of course So this whole reform process started out well Basically in 2009 when the Commission European Commission published its so-called green paper on the reform of the common fisheries policy I think it's interesting to look back at that now and what they identified as the five major structural failings of the common fisheries policy The first one that they mentioned was fleet over capacity. So too many boats the second was the conflicting objectives set out in Actually in article one of the CFP which talks about the objective of the common fisheries policy to Maintain environmental social and economic sustainability and it turned out that when decision-makers are trying to make a decision between short-term economic sustainability and long-term Environmental and social and economic sustainability it always kind of tends to to to be a compromise where you compromise with the environment and In other countries like in the US or in New Zealand, etc. They kind of Learned this lesson. So environmental sustainability is the priority in the objectives in those countries But but not here and this is something the EU Commission identified Number three is a decision-making system which encourages Short-term focus and that is basically the yearly quota negotiations by the council So moving away from that and having more long-term management plans for all the fish stocks is something we need Number four is that the framework does not give sufficient responsibility to the industry and number five Lack of political will to do something. I think that is very very important and I think the reason for that has been quite Too little debate. I think in the public debate domain about these things So what did the Commission propose to do about these structural failings Well an over capacity they suggested Fundatory so-called transferable fishing concessions to be introduced in all over Europe This has raised a lot of opposition Not only in council and different member states, but but also in the European Parliament So I can tell you all this I think that that Proposal is dead. I don't think it's going anywhere. The council has already said that they think it could be Voluntary and the European Parliament is on the same line. So I said, I don't think that will fly So what will we do about the too many boats at the over capacity? the Parliament now the things that are being discussed is putting binding of locations on member states to adjust the fishing capacity to the available resources and Also putting a threat if they don't do it They wouldn't have had access to the European maritime and fisheries fund. So if you don't adjust your capacity You won't have access to the money That is I think what the what will be the position of the Parliament and How would you do such a selection? What boats should stay or what boats should go basically if you just don't want to prioritize those that are most Have the let's say the thickest wallets then perhaps Society should try to prioritize those that fishing in a desirable way from the society's point of view and that might be Those that fish environmentally more sustainable than others. So you also have this tool every member states can allocate fishing possibilities inside the framework work of relative stability and That is also a proposal that is being discussed in Parliament and there's quite a lot of of support for it But exactly how that could be implemented from a European point of view is is more open I think that should more be let's say a tool for member states to use themselves On the anchor clear policy objectives work surprisingly enough the Commission did not propose to put environment first as the first objective, but they Continue to have the same formulation as they had earlier on with a balance between economic social and sustainability it looks like Presently in the in negotiations that the Parliament will support Putting environment as the prerequisite for social and economic Sustainability, and I hope that would be the position. We know that council did not go for that so We need to Fight for that and I'm fighting for that because I think that's very very fundamental on the short term in Termism as the third fundamental Failing The Commission proposes long-term management plans for all species and legally binding exploitation levels so Fishing mortality below So-called maximum sustainable yield by 2015 Those of you that perhaps are not that Much experts on fishing terminology. This might sound a little complicated, but Basically the maximum sustainable yield is the amount of fish you can take from a stock each year without the stock Decreasing so it turn it's like the interest rate of your capital if you have capital on the bank You should not try and take more than the interest rate because otherwise your capital will decrease so maximum sustainable yield is Actually an international obligation to manage all fish stocks by 2015 according to maximum sustainable yield and that is something that the EU and the world has signed up to in Johannesburg in 2002 and in Rio and Rio plus 20 a few months ago in June so There's a lot of discussion about this 2015 why is 2015? I mean that's almost tomorrow. It's not possible to do it But it's a legal obligation Already in Unclos, which is the UN law of the seas Commission on the law of the seas and we've committed to that and The Commission thinks it's very important to to have is as an objective even if we know what we won't achieve it But for all stocks for some stocks, it's absolutely attainable and some stocks already are at maximum sustainable yield but there's a lot of discussions around the date and Also about a little word there and the word is below. Sorry. Yeah mortality below MSY, but You can also measure it by biomass and the Commission is proposing to have biomass over maximum sustainable yield above MSY and There's also a lot of discussions about those small tiny words should we have biomass above MSY or around or close to or at MSY or MSY where possible all these words are being tossed around in this very moment and I'm coming back to that because I think it's really really important that you understand that above MSY is the only wise option and Something else that I hope that the Irish presidency will help Resolving and that is that the long-term management plans are all stuck in between European Parliament and council at this very moment So one of the good things that happened in the last reform was that The EU introduced this long-term management objectives, so For for instance for card in the North Sea or the Baltic Sea etc. and many other species We have this four five six seven years or long plans but after the Lisbon Treaty there has been a Little conflict between European Parliament and council on the competence on some of the ingredients in these long-term management plans and we haven't really been able to Implement any new long-term management plan since 2009 which is a catastrophe and for the For the reform if we don't resolve this which is all is only a conflict of competence between EP and European Parliament and council if we don't resolve this The reform is really also very much in danger because of those Well things that shouldn't be in the way the fourth structural failing that the Commission pointed to was insufficient responsibility to the through the industry and The solution to that was to propose regionalization So that at let's say the top level at the European Parliament and council We should set limits to targets the objectives and then at the regional level You could design the management plans and do that together with all the stakeholders That is a very good idea, but the details are very unclear in the Commission's proposal We're talking right now in Parliament about our ideas on how to do it And probably I mean it will be very much I think up to each member states or Region to try and sort this out I think the important thing is to leave it as open as possible in the basic regulation So it's possible for members to different member states and regions to actually take power over the day-to-day management of their fisheries and Well, the fifth structural failing the lack of political will Commission and I think the right Tries to do something about the pressure that is put on all the fisheries ministers each December council when there's negotiations on the next year's quotas By establishing binding harvest control rules to keep stocks above MSY To have a discord ban and the conditionality on funding So that if you don't abide by CFP rules, etc. You won't get access to the money and this will kind of Take off pressures. I think political pressure from home on short-term decisions and and also create Well better conditions, we've already seen that actually in the US that that is happening when you have long-term objectives and Binding harvest control rules, so you can't negotiate with with the scientific advice My colleagues in the European Parliament are worried about this they want flexibility always some Openness to to take social and economic consequences into the equation and not be so So strict and I'm worried about that because I think that always Leads to the short-term Gain to be put as the priority So, okay, the major conflicts right now for us in the European Parliament as I mentioned The wording around the concept of maximum sustainable yield should it be should we keep stocks above MSY around at MSY or close to it. I'll come back to that again Another conflict is regarding the disc the proposed discard ban. So Commission has proposed to eliminate discards But of course, it's also Question of words. I mean elimination of these cards will be Very difficult. Well, it won't be difficult to eliminate because if you just bring everything ashore Then then you have everything ashore, but will be very difficult to eliminate unwanted catches And that would must be the ultimate objective of a discard ban should be to to avoid the unwanted catches But basically the the the the different views in Parliament and I think also in council is that some of us feel that It's very important to have a political statement and say discards are not acceptable and Then everything will be be solved after you make that political statement and some others They think that it should be very much case by case gradual Not being applied in the Mediterranean all sorts of exceptions another conflict that is coming a little bit after The basic regulation is the money question and all the money is put in the European maritime officials fund Which we will vote after the basic regulation hopefully and in the fund the Commission has proposed money should be used for Well more environmentally friendly gear selective gear Safety and health things They have taken away money for Well renewal was all renew well building of new ships that were already removed in the old reform in 2002 But they also removed every type of modernization of the ship that could lead to increased fishing capacity Which is good They also Removed the the Intervention the intervention mechanism which where you if if the price of fish fell below a certain level Then the EU by EU money you bought that fish That would be too cheap for the markets. Let's say and and you destroyed it So that's gone, but there's another thing for storage aid instead so Very many of my colleagues some to the right some to the left. They think that there should be money for building new vessels there should be money for mitigating fuel price increases and they think There should also be money for temporary cessation in by let biological rest periods and and lots of measures to to support fishermen which I fear is only artificially Keeping fishermen in the industry when it's not Really profitable to stay and the last conflict is not a conflict within the parliament But that's the conflict with the council and which I already mentioned and that is about our competencies on on these management plans and I would very much hope that that could be solved because it's really Very formalistic Things that could be should be solved But now it's a deadlocking council Okay, this is my favorite topic. So be prepared for some fisheries biology Okay, so why is keeping stocks above MSY important? These are sturgeons by the way This is not from Europe, but we used to have sturgeons in the Baltic Sea. They're one of the the few species actually, but It's very like it's very sad anyway that have been completely extinct in Europe Okay, so the council and very many of my colleagues. They think that above keeping stocks above MSY That seems very superfluous while just stick to MSY maximum sustainable yield. That sounds perfect. Let's go for that well, if you Actually, I'm a bit grateful to the Scandinavian airline systems that That showed very practically today that you can't always be so certain of everything in life You know, even if we thought that we had X Thousand tons of fish in the sea last year It can turn out two years later when you do your back calculations. No, there weren't so many fish Because of some some factor that you couldn't really predict so of course The precautionary approach tells us that keeping a bit of a safety margin is very wise By the way already we have some stocks that are being managed above MSY we have the card in the Baltic Sea and We have horse mackerel in North Atlantic and The thing is if you go exactly by MSY then you would have quota fluctuations by 2540 sometimes 50 or 100 percent from one year to another and the industry They don't like that even if you could take that that would mean okay big investments for this year and then next year Oh, it's 70% Cut in the quotas and then I mean that would have Very negative consequences for the industry so in the Baltic Sea we're seeing a slow recovery of the Baltic cod due to Harvest control rule that says never increase or decrease the quota from one year to another by more than 15% Although MSY would have allowed an increase by 40% last year of the cod But then you would have had an increase by 35% The year the following year so it's it's not good To always stick to at MSY increased resilience of the ecosystem well Finally, I get to confess that I really am agreeing because I'm not I'm always using these economic arguments but of course Fish are not only in the sea as some kind of potential food that we can catch They also have another function and that is keeping the resilience of the ecosystem So it can take let's say climate change environmental catastrophe if there's Some fish disease that happens all of a sudden then if we just have managing every Stalk at my MSY then you don't have the safety margin at all and and you don't have for instance Alien species when they come in you cannot MSY if you keep stocks at MSY, it means you keep them at less than 50% of their virgin state and I showed you a few historical pictures of fish how big they used to be and how many you used to Catch and I mean the virgin state. I don't think we Today we think it's possible, but it is possible and if we would get to that level. We would have more catches So and also on the mixed fisheries. It's very difficult to be at MSY on every species so you also need to have a safety level and you should not compromise with the most vulnerable species to to Take the the least vulnerable species at MSY and then compromise downwards There's also lots of Calculations been done showing that it costs less to fish if you have stocks above MSY you need less fuel actually to go out and take and catch those fish and You would approach that concept the maximum economic yield which in fact fish are Fisheries are managed after in in Australia and in the US. I think I'm almost done so Right now out of 54 northeast Atlantic fish stocks 49 are over fished and Restoring these stocks would deliver up to 14 point 62 billion pounds a year in gross revenues This is 2.7 times the current value of landings. This was a report from new economic foundation that came out two weeks ago Okay, you have to take all these figures with a grain of salt, but but basically this is what every Fisheries economists that do the calculations come up with that you should actually Double or triple catches and and incomes if you do this So this is a card It's a card that I I saw in a Aquaculture plant in Norway and he was a bit sad because I Think it's it's sad that you have aquaculture of card in a sea where you have so plentiful of wine card that it shouldn't really be Shouldn't be necessary to to cultivate them and and I'm going to leave the floor open for for questions and discussions before I do that. 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Hey, what's going on guys? Tom Davis here, America's K9 educator. Thank you so much for joining me today on my YouTube channel. If you guys haven't yet, do not forget to smash that subscribe button, like this video. And in today's episode, we're gonna be talking about and working with a client coming from out of state working on anxiety. So it's gonna be separation anxiety, it's going to be anxiety on the leash, as well as some behavioral things that come from anxiety. And so I'm simply just gonna walk you through the whole process guys and go over some very, very common things that people do with their dogs to create that stress and create that relationship. So I'm gonna stop talking, we're gonna get right into the video. No. So now what I wanna do is the other thing that you're, you meet like, you know, what I try to do, like as an artist or whatever is just like, just start peeling off flavors. I'm like, all right, let's just get some of this, you know, it's kind of like renovating the house. You're like, all right, all this has gotta go. Let's get down to the bones. So one thing is the separation anxiety. So you can tell, like as soon as I take him, he's like, nope, mom, mom, mom, mom. And it creates anxiety. So I wanna help him feel more comfortable away from you. And you, so how do you do that?  Like you can't. You have to work on exercises in order for him to be like, I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay. I'm not okay. You know, you have to work on that and really get him better. It's much like any yoga running, holding your breath, you have to incrementally get better at it. It's nothing that you can go in and just, right? So I wanna start that process and how do you start decreasing that separation anxiety? And of course, when we talk about separation anxiety, it's going to be, I gotta be next to you. If I'm next to you, I'm not happy. And that's not good for any, it doesn't matter if it's a giraffe or a rhino or a dog. You don't want that. You don't want the thing that you're in charge of to be dependent or codependent on you in order to be happy. So we're gonna work on that. First thing we're gonna do is we're just gonna work on a basic sit and a stay. Have you done stay with him? Okay. So here's what people do is what you don't wanna do is you don't wanna go sit, stay, drop the leash and walk away. That's what you don't wanna do. What you wanna do is you wanna make sure that when you ask him to sit, he's like, okay, I got it, good sit. Turn to him, right? Stay. One, two. He's like, all right, got this. Once you've completed this task and the first step of the first increment, break, do that like four or five times. He's done that. You do the same process and then your distance, your duration and your distraction. So the three Ds that I typically work on with any obedience, distance, duration and distraction. The duration is how long you're standing here. Distance is how far you are away and the distractions are realistic. How many things are we gonna throw into the mix to desensitize him for reality? Right, yeah, and I, but he's like, I can see him anticipating anything. Exactly. He's like, okay, huh, when it's over. Like he's like, wait. Yup. And here's, exactly. And one of the things that everyone does and you may or may not do it, here's the reason why dogs are so anticipatory is they do this. They go, sit, stay, stay, stay, stay, right. Is that what you do? Yeah, so that's why. So that's what you're, exactly. So what you wanna do, neutral. You don't wanna be like a horror movie and suspense and like brah, brah, brah, brah. And then boom, you're just waiting for that door to open and that monster to pop out. You don't wanna build that anticipation with your body language and with your behavior of yourself. So if I say to you, it's just like with human behavior, right? If you walk into the door, I'm like, wait, wait one second, wait one second. Hold on, wait one second. You're waiting for me to come back and then I'm gonna go, okay, what would you like? Right, with my voice? Wait, hold on, right? Okay, and, right? But if I'm like, I'll be right back. You're just like, all right, got it. It's like, it's like an end. Yeah, it's cut right off. So same thing with dogs. We're gonna go, sit, stay. Neutral. So they're not queuing off of our stay, stay, stay, stay. And they're also not queuing off of our this too. I had a client last week that did this. It was like, because what she did is she would do this, like this.  And I said, so it's exactly. So the dog's reading your verbal pressure. The dog's also reading your body language. So you're going, click, click, click, click, stay, stay, stay, stay, stay. Dog gets up every time. So you're like a timer. Stay, hold it. Now when we're working on recall, we're not gonna like necessarily do this, sit, stay and things, that's not realistic. What we're doing is we're just working on, I'm gonna go away from you and everything's gonna be okay.  So let's start that and see how we do. Good. And just hold it. Nope, so put him back. So one thing I would do is you're doing another pressure, which would be that. Yes, yes. Does that make sense? You don't want the dog to ever, you just want him to go off of break or heal or come or whatever. So what I would do in this situation for you guys is stay, you can use this as like a wall. And then do this. Just don't give him anything because he's already anticipating that. So don't give him another cue to anticipate on. Pressure, nope, just pressure on. Like this, there you go. Sit, stay. Now stop right there, good. Fold your leash in half, yep. So whenever we're doing obedience training with any dog for any reason, doesn't matter if it's behavior modification or teaching a puppy basics. So give him a break. What you don't want to do is this, okay? Let me show you how this works. So again, when we're talking about duration, distance, and distractions, like the final test would be stay, right? But we're not, we're not there yet. So you have four feet of leash right there. So we already did the first sit stay and he kind of was like a little rocky on it. So then you take it here and you hold it and you say, okay, we're gonna go this close. We're gonna work on distance and duration. So we come back, we're holding, okay, break, right?  So do it again and just fold your leash in half. You guys, we're doing a giveaway. As usual, all you guys have to do is like this video and in the comments below, leave your dog's name, letter, enter, letter, enter in the comments below to automatically get entered when a free online session with me, anywhere in the world, it's a half an hour session. I wish I could give it back more, but that's all I can do right now and you guys can enter right now in the comments below. Stay. Now just hold this for a little bit longer. Good. Now just put it down your hand. Good. Good, stay. Right, break, perfect. Like I said, I think it's just, it's really about just taking these little, little things and making, you know, soliding and everything up because you wanna do the best you can as a dog owner to make sure that you're doing everything you possibly can to counteract or counter condition the inherited anxiety that the dog may have been born with or the breed or whatever. So let's do this again and I wanna walk through the process to make sure that we're in a good spot that way when you go home in the future, you can practice this. Good. Okay, so now that, nope.  And then you're gonna hold that and don't call him. Just put your arm down, good. Good. And you just sidestep this way to the left and then you get, nope, catch him.  So this is what I'm talking about is like the sit, stay in his case has a lot to do with his separation anxiety. He's like, where do you think you're going? You're not leaving without me. So this is something to practice that. So this isn't, so micro-macro, right? I always talk about that. It's like your micro is working on your obedience with the sit, stay. The bigger picture is he's working on his anxiety of being away from you and you moving around and him not being clingy to you. So this is a perfect exercise for you to use with him to help with all of that anxiety. So now what you can do is you're just gonna walk to him and tell him good stay, but don't break him. So good. Now tell him to stay. Good, just back up. Good. Just letting him know that he's not moving until you break him. So sidestep a little bit, watch his behavior. If he gets up, you're gonna cruise right to him and catch him. Good. See that, hear that deep breath he just took? It's good. Go back that way. Good, now just drop the leash. Good. Now go up and tell him good stay and give him a little bit of, good. Good. Stop, good. Good. And now give him a break. Break? Good job. So if you practice this enough, the next step is dropping the leash coming out to here. Then dropping the leash and turning around. Then dropping the leash, going out the door and then so on and so forth. So he's gonna be, you're basically taking an exercise to teach him and to prepare him and desensitize him and really just push him through these uncomfortable situations through obedience to mentally prepare him for all of this. And that's what you're gonna do. So that was really good. All right you guys, that's a wrap. Thank you so much for watching. If you haven't yet, do not forget, like this video, smash that subscribe button. I hope this brought you value. I hope you learned something from it. It was a lot of fun. Thank you everybody so much from the bottom of my heart for watching, listening, commenting, engaging. I appreciate you guys. I will see you next time. 🎵 Move forward, switch up. I hit E that's a sticker. She picture perfect so I told him I'm...


That's a brand once before it kind of next door was before Put your fingers on it was smashing I got some nuts to crack Oh, it's three o'clock Let's start with this one Are there any additions or corrections to the meeting from March 17th Very none. I'll entertain a motion to approve the All favor say aye Okay No Any members have a potential conflict of interest with any of the items on the agenda this evening number 3.1 Excuse me one second excuse me one second So we have a variance application by Robert butcher requesting to build a new 8-foot deep covered porch to match the width of the house and Stairway from the porch to the front property line at 320 Ontario Avenue Years ago two or three years ago, and it was approved, but I ran into some Legal issues I got thought that I'll resolve now so I can move forward with this Edition sure sure and I believe is there a neighbor here for this item as well Okay, so at this point in time what it looks like is mr. Butcher has in essence submitted the same application that he submitted in 2018 The couple of questions that staff has as looking at this again is there have been some concerns There is one neighbor Pat Kevin who wrote a letter to the board. They're located at 1,000 north 4th Street. That indicates Nate Eastway forward the plans for this house to me and two houses west of the above address I'm having a hard time understanding the roof line of the proposed porch if it stays at or above the porch line of 328 Ontario I have no problem with the variance if it's below and obstructs my view of the lake It'll decrease my value as I have a lake view then I oppose the variance I've lived here 47 years without an obstruction of my lake view and can we please clear this up for me So presently the applicant has only Provided kind of a site plan view of the proposal There's no detail in terms of the construction of the actual porch itself So it's hard for staff to recommend favorably without having any additional detail to what we're approving in terms of an actual Structure I have some pictures that I provided Across the street of what that is going to look like of what I wanted to look like the roof Right. This is this is the extent. Um, could I get the plans on the TVs, please? This is the extent if you take a look at the TVs screens of the plans that we have As far as looking at things across the street There's no detail again, and there's just no way that staff can Recommend favorably without seeing any type of detail in terms of what's being proposed Because this house has the ability to very much I mean basically right at the sidewalk the stairs are going to start and this deck is going to come in so it is going to be much closer to the street then The other neighboring properties adjacent to it This is the home that we're looking at right here Yeah, and you can see that the stairs would basically start back here and the deck is going to be coming out You know pretty much In this area with the stairs right at the property line well these so it comes from three the sidewalk you have three feet and then that's where the steps start and Then it's seven feet from there and then eight feet for the porch Do you know what happened to the files that I About the pictures that I sent or that I gave you that are they in the file that they can look at that or Across the street I had some pictures also I sent in yeah as far as the pictures That doesn't really matter what it comes down to is the plans of what you are going to construct at the site Okay, it's gonna be halfway. It's yeah It's nothing it's gonna be halfway in between the two windows atop and bottom it's gonna be halfway there right like you said right I can I can give you the plans and I get the plans to show that then that's what you guys like or want So I think I think the biggest things that the board is looking at this evening, you know are You know this this is the person that is concerned about their view probably from The window over in this area There's a porch that is on the house right next door But the house is just a little bit behind that porch in this porch that Mr. Butcher is talking about is definitely going to be going, you know Well into that front yard So so in order to answer that question we can't with the plans before us So I don't know if anyone else has any questions or anything But at this point in time it's hard for staff to recommend favorably without that information No, no, I didn't want I didn't want that I think you have more problems with like the deck that's up there next door Yeah, I don't want that And I don't know with her sight line with that porch also, I don't know how she can say that it's gonna be interfering With her view of mine because there's a house right next door to it. So I don't understand that Sir, would you could you could you come up to the podium because no one can hear you without speaking into the microphone? If you could just let us know your name and address and feel free to provide some comment Sure, my name is William Burton and I live at 10 13 North 4th Street Around the corner from mr. Butcher. I don't know mr. Butcher. We've never met. I think we've waved at each other perhaps But My concerns are along the same lines as Pat Kevin We've lived in our house since since 20 what we bought it in late 2015 It was a distressed property it was in foreclosure it had been uninhabited for 14 months and we did a total top-to-bottom gut rehab on that house and My sight lines are not impacted by this in any way But I am also on the alley and I'm you know, my concerns are just in general with preserving Zoning and you know one of the things that we did on our house Was to relocate some windows around the corner that looks down the alley so that we have a lake view Down the alley and I would hate for somebody to change the zoning You know on the alley side that would impact my property my views and On behalf of neighbors who I haven't spoken to I'm concerned about you know People all the way up the street and even across 4th Street whose views might be changed by this I just I just really don't see the point And if their property values are impacted that's going to impact my property values as well so I'm just here to stand and you know in favor of preserving zoning where where possible and in this case It seems like it's neither going to you know improve the neighborhood or improve the tax base of the city And so it kind of seems like a no-brainer to me, but Thank you leave that leave that to you all Thanks Comment with that My house with being renovated it will improve the base of that area immensely because right now It's it's a gutted place. It's a gutted house, and I'm reef remodeling it to Preserve that area to make it look a lot nicer So decrease in values. It will not decrease decrease values of this The poor children house is not going to decrease values. I'm putting money into this house And this like I said the sight lines of I don't understand that with the house It's just not it's not going to be a double-decker one But what I can do is I can give you drawings I can come back to the board and then show you what they're going to look like Yeah, the question I guess You mentioned about the alley aren't there I drove through there I thought there are like garages on the alley side and this property does not have a I don't know how That would affect a site from the From the alley side and secondly wasn't there a porch on there from the beginning? Yeah, and the front was built Yeah, and the other being there is a house on the east side to that would seem to obstruct the view Currently, but that's only common So you'd have to come up to the mic sir you'd have to come up to the mic please sorry about that To be sure the proposal you're considering is not on the alley side. It doesn't affect the alley at all My point was a more general one and I don't know whether you can consider such a thing But you know I have a lake view in down the alley from my house and I'm just saying that you know in You know hypothetically I would hate for somebody to come before you and say well We want to you know come out towards the alley any farther And you know cut off my lake view and in the same sense I'm concerned on you know for the sake of my neighbors and One of those houses is empty the house immediately to the west of mr. Butcher at 328 is is on the market and has been uninhabited for months now So I don't know if there's anybody to speak on behalf of that property, but you know I mean there's many properties that would be that would be affected by this I think and again, I just I just Stand for maintaining zoning when people you know buy a home. They have an expectation that zoning will protect the attributes that You know led them to purchase that home and you know and so forth That's my that's my concern and that's my point and those values of all those properties You know you can increase the value of one property But if you impinge on the value of multiple properties, that's probably going to have a bigger effect on the value of my property Not to mention the city tax base, but you know, I leave that to you all you're the experts, but Those are my concerns Thank you Was there a grievance that I'm sorry when we approve this the first time was there a grievance then There was no as far as what I understand. There was nothing at that point in time So so I think what it comes down to is you can see on the drawing what was originally there I just had a question for mr. Butcher.  There's the steps haven't been on this building for you know since 2018 you know the it's obviously in a nice neighborhood and You guys are you know are taking a lot of time What's the difference this time that you're actually going to move forward and proceed with something? I went through some legal issues and those legal issues are done now I can proceed forward with that house. Okay before there wasn't I had to wait until the legal issues for that house were resolved They're resolved now. I can move forward Any questions? When's the next meeting? Next meeting is Calendar in front of me May third week in May Okay, I just have to keep on asking about photos that I I brought in or had from last time Do you know where they are in the files? That's all information that you would need to bring. I you know Oh, I thought I can you explain? I mean the information that we have is this deck and the application that you submitted last time And again, none of that the only pictures that are in there show the original stairway, okay There's some Google Earth pictures that we had from the last time But there are I thought yeah, I thought I had the assumption that up that was gonna be able to be presented on the screen Can you show the screen please? I mean these are some of the pictures that were Okay in from last time and The only thing that we added that was different I guess what from last time was your application and this that shows a treated wood Porch, which obviously we wouldn't approve. Okay, um, you know what those? pictures are that I gave You remember a couple days ago. I sent I said here's some pictures And you said that you were gonna put them in I said, okay, do you need my name? He said oh, I know it already So oh just that deck. Okay. I sent another one via email of pictures across the street That's all I mean it's it's yeah, don't as far as the pictures across the street I mean what it comes down to is that gives us a general idea, but we need something that shows You know, here's here's what's across the street Um, yeah, exactly that's the picture that I took that's what it's the porch That's what the line is for that the roof line. It's not gonna be a double deck or anything like that I kind of wanted to match the the The neighborhood so we're blending You know in those houses on the other side of the street You can see that several of them are close to the property line right this side You know the distances are much further than The other side of the street. Here's the whole more talking about here The neighbors you can see these are closer to the street over here where he's showing the deck So this is gonna come out basically, you know right at the property line With the steps and then shortly thereafter that eight foot wide Porch yeah, like I said I can I can get some more dimensions and some drawings Yeah, I think I think the the critical thing is is gonna be to match that Drawing that you show for your the overhead view. Yeah With me one second here. Where is it? This view because it shows a dormer. It shows different roofs. We don't know what the posts are You know, so all of that in information is important to show how the deck And the porch and the steps are gonna tie into your house so that it's an attractive addition because if it is just treated Would there's no way the board's gonna approve that now if it's tied into the house and the elements and things like that I think you have a much stronger opportunity to get it approved Okay, yeah, I just came in for what I had from last time that I was approved So that's what I came in with but yeah, I can get some more stuff. Probably be good idea to recommend tabling it Yeah, I'll be able to get all that stuff Yeah Is there is there a reason you know within the Four corners of the zoning regulations why the setback is different on one side of the street versus the other side of the street Or is that you're constructed and when the homes are built Your home was probably early 1900s compared to today and 1903 I'm sorry mine was 1903. Yeah, I know pass. I would imagine the zoning back in 1903 was significantly different than it is today I see and so so from that perspective You know, you can see that your home all the homes, you know today's code requires homes to be 25 foot setback None of these homes meet that requirement In essence what you're dealing with is Exactly what mr. Butcher is proposing is to come to the board of appeals making a request to see Hey, will I be able to vary any more than what we are all already doing in this neighborhood? So so there's not a real clear-cut answer to your question other than say the zoning was much different in 1903 and where houses could build then compared to 2021 I See thank you, and I would just make one other point in case it's relevant and that is that The the the sight lines to the lake are not the site are not the same on both sides of the street Because the on the south side of the street you have a more open view looking slightly Towards the north, you know out towards Dilan Beach Whereas on the north side of the street You're really only looking at the pier and Dilan Park You know in the grassy area Unless you can see right down the line of those homes So the the sight line to actually see the lake if you're talking about a lake view is Is not necessarily the same on both sides of the street My minor point, but I just thought I'd put that out There's a motion the table can we get a second so you're coming back Bob Okay, then we have a motion to table can we ask for a second For information The motion was made by Keely and seconded by Don we need a vote all in favor say aye opposed See you next time Bob Thank you It's got a basketball hoop that they put up on there And so All the water collects and pools and all of the all of the structure underneath in the front is all rotted out And it just has deteriorated over time and now the wind is actually it's actually worse now because of all the rain in the wind So nothing hit it That's what I'm here for All right, let's see here We got a variance application by Brian and Sarah d'Ordi requesting to build a garage 36 by 32 with an additional 20 by 2 bump out total is 1192 square feet garage will be located 26 feet from the front property line at 3 3 3 north 6 Street The variances are the additional the maximum garage sizes 1,000 square feet so it's the additional 1 192 square feet that we're discussing and the minimum setback in the SR 3 zone is 30 feet and the applicants Requesting to have a 26 foot Setback for your information the house if you can take a look at the survey is 25 feet from the front property right line right now So mr. Dardi if you'd like to explain what you're after. Yeah, thank you. I appreciate the time. Thanks for having me here Yeah, I guess My wife and I have been doing houses for the past 19 years This will be our fourth house that we've bought and said we're gonna we're gonna renovate it So we've had a lot of experience with with to be honest how to make a house better And we bought this house specifically because of the potential for it and the location of it and the potential the increase of value The carport that is there. It's kind of cool Probably was really cool back in the 70s, but it is rotted out and It's fallen apart and it needs to be it needs to come down As we were looking into this my wife one my wife and I wanted to keep it to the the house modern clean kind of low impact but we were convinced by my father-in-law that given our location and that It the right thing to do would be to put a three-car garage in the house I didn't want a three-car garage, but I've been convinced otherwise. That's probably the right thing to do for the house and The amount of currently there's about 320 square feet of storage to put about the smallest three-car garage You can we're gonna have to sacrifice on the storage, which to be honest We could use a little more than we have so as we're developing and designing it we found about the thousand square foot and Realize that we had to come here and have a conversation to find out I think what it comes down to is if we can't go larger than the thousand square feet We're gonna have to make a decision between having less storage than we might need or want or Putting a two-car garage in a house that probably long term would be better served with a three-car garage and And Yeah, I guess I put a lot of the information in here and I guess I'd love to hear your thoughts or questions And we didn't realize until we got into the process that about so the right away on our street is 40 feet from center So the first 25 feet is owned by the city and then like he said our house is exactly 25 feet from there The current carport as it sits is 31 feet from that lot line So it's already encroaching on the 35 So and the hope is to build something large enough that we can have a three-car garage where I think it a house That probably should have one long term and build enough storage in there so we can have Kayaks and paddle boards and bikes and stuff like that Yes. Yes, we've been there for three years We had your neighbor here about a year ago when he put all that cement in and he was coming up from Chicago Yeah, we'll move in next door. You want to build that little? Yeah, yeah, yep. I have their I have their sir. I have their survey with me too in case we need it. So Yeah, the graces Would you like to see the? The existing garage and get a street view to see what that is So here if you want my get in the screen, please This is just a copy or the where the home is right now This is what we're taking a look at here is the carport. They're talking about demolishing this property next door If many may remember was approved for a variance to do a little larger shed Kind of structure Yeah, maybe while I'm getting this maybe you could talk a little bit of how you're matching the Garage structure with kind of the materials and look yeah the house of the board can understand that No, it's not attached. It's a we have a 1950s ranch. It's got price probably Cedar I think but but real wood siding a hip roof We just did a big project on it. You I my pictures are kind of small But we just did a big big project to modernize it. We painted everything we put some new siding on it to modernize it We did a lot of really neat things with it. We're gonna match that we're gonna put real wood siding on it we're gonna get a Probably spend more on a garage door than I ever thought you could but to have a nice wood slat not real wood but Wood slat looking modern look to it. So it'll match the house We're gonna be as narrow as we can be to have a three-car garage and as low as we can be and the Size of it is truly the depth So even if you you guys say today that we're not going you're not gonna allow me to do this The day that I do build a garage. It's gonna look the same from the front. It's not gonna be any bigger It's just the depth that we're looking to get Um, could we get the screen again, please? so this is the garage we're talking about and Mr. Doherty you can speak to the effect that the house Maybe you could talk about a little bit of your color and what you've done to the house already and one of the reasons Why you're moving to the garage because it looked like there was a significant amount of exterior remodeling that's taken place there Yeah, do you mind if I can I bring these up to you to look at sure? Okay? Yeah, it's horizontal ebay wood siding which modernizes it We put some kind of cool numbers up there on the house But the bigger part is that if you go but can you go back to that picture of the the front picture? No, the one that you had not the one that I had it was an old picture. That's what I want to point out Give me one second So you see the big all the asphalt there like the entire house from the house to the carport was asphalt everything from where that truck is over now is great is grass and landscaped and In between the house now is professionally landscaped and I built a deck off the back. So we're we're basically got rid of the parking lot to You know give it give ourselves a Yeah, yes, so it'll come out a little bit further forward and I'll go a few feet out to the left Other than that. It's pretty much the same footprint It's 27 feet away from the house I don't know it never in Never occurred to us because the footprint was already there Yes, five feet Yeah, there if you can take a look at the survey it is showing Where the existing houses over here and then this is the proposed Garage structure so you can see that it's detached onto that north side So I guess I would have loved I would have loved to have it in the tax garage But my understanding was attaching a garage is a lot more challenging than rebuilding an existing Structure in the same place. So I never explored that option And all our plans went forward with making that space between the garage and the house our outdoor space If that makes sense Jeff or if you've been over there look at The guy thing you want to say didn't he put up a little building in the back you're on that corner South northeast of your garage the you mean the grace is one that you guys approved last year. Is that what you mean? I'm talking about the guy from Chicago. He put that you wanted to put it. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I love it. It's great All in favor say aye. Aye Beautiful motion carries you're good. Thank you so much The Graby Sounds good. Yeah. Yeah, right. Maybe we'll see you again. Yeah. Yeah, right. Well, thank you very much. You're welcome. I Could address item 3.3 if you want real quick Item 3.3 has been withdrawn at this point in time So we don't have to worry about that one and then just a heads up for everyone Rob Eckerd had put in his Resignation so he will no longer be joining us. So we'll probably have someone new in the future so Appreciate it Rob's help over the years. So if you're listening Rob, thank you for helping out over that time period We'd appreciate it That's it Very none. I'll entertain a motion to adjourn All in favor say aye. Aye Post carried Thanks, everybody


The best exercise for your biceps, it's not curls Alright guys, I know, I know everybody's like big biceps gotta do the curls Where do we even go? You know from here Alright, I'm gonna tell a story right now of when I really pieced this together I had a gymnast that worked for me as a trainer years ago It was a this dude was about I don't know 5'10 Jacked like incredible arms like you ever seen like competitive gymnasts Male gymnasts in particular female gymnasts too, but male gymnasts They just have like these like amateur bodybuilding looking arms And I asked him once like what do you do for your biceps? Do your arms look crazy? And he goes chin ups like that's a back exercise He goes no, it's a it's a bicep exercise if you do it like this and he jumps up on the bar Gets a curl grip and rather than pulling his chest to the bar He does this kind of like compound lift for his biceps and then it dawned on me If I want my quads to really grow. It's not leg extensions. It's squats, right?  I'm not it's not, you know pullovers It's it's rose right so it's like a compound lift for the biceps In fact, we often accept that for triceps like close grip bench press or dips right for some reason biceps We don't do that anyway started doing them and they're hard so they're really advanced and Made a huge it put the curls to shame in terms of hard. Yeah, I think that's where it is Right. It's so much easier to just look in the mirror and Pump pump it up. Is that what you think we do? You know, that's a that's that's a really good point you bring up And I wonder why that is that so we everybody is pretty familiar with close grip bench press for your triceps We talk about it all the time. I've it's not the first time I've heard anyone time. It's popular But it you don't hear that often about, you know supinated pull-ups as a great bicep exercise like people But it's that's a perfect comparison. It's very similar to the what trice or what the incline Press is for triceps, but for biceps. Yeah, I think that one talks about it I think it's big Justin hit it, right? It's hard as hell So first off doing a supinated grip chin up or pull up is hard anyway But now rather than pulling your chest to the bar, right? You're kind of focused on the biceps and because it's so supinated some people have issues with their wrists So one thing you can do is you if you can find a bar PRX has this right? So we work with a company called PRX and they have I love their handle grips Yeah, multiple grips and one of them is supinated, but it's almost like an easy curl bar So it's kind of like this That's excellent for doing what I'm about to you know what I'm demonstrating But you do got to pull with the biceps not as much with the back So you're not doing this you're pulling like this and it just blows up the biceps You know who does a lot of it those that little protracted with your shoulders as opposed to Yeah, just like with close grip bench press like you're putting the the emphasis on the triceps with this kind of a pull-up You're putting the emphasis on the biceps You know what there's one athlete that does a lot of those types of friend of ours no no No, we don't know anybody that does but there's one category of athletes That relies on very very strong arms and biceps size of gymnast besides the gymnast arm wrestlers arm wrestlers do lots of Those kinds of chin-ups in fact if you watch really do you have them athletes?  I'm just like I It's like a novelty thing. Yeah, well, I mean, I don't know if you let's call math Yeah, well, I mean if in the Olympics they have you know, baton twirling. I'm pretty sure I feel like if I can call men's physique a sport you should be able to call arm wrestling for sure a hundred percent Yeah, but but those guys and girls and they do exercise like that and then you'll see top arm wrestlers They'll often demonstrate one-arm pull-ups and you'll notice that it's like it's all bicep when they do the pull-up and It's what they're and their arms are for strength athletes They have incredible looking arms and biceps but yeah, I did this and I still do this every once in a while and There's no bicep exercise that I can that I've done that will hit my arms the same way No, I like I like that a lot and in that elbow position, too There's not a lot of bicep exercises that emulate that either. That's another part another feature about that Yes, compound lift heavy hard novel all those things for sure and then also how many machines Do you know where your elbow is positioned by your ears? Not just that it's up by your ears And then as the exercise progresses it now moves through this this wild range of motion Yeah, my elbow goes from behind my by my head to in front of my body to my side all within the same Exercise so what happens essentially is if you look at the bicep that's connected in two points We're gonna simplify there's two heads, but let's just simplify right there's two points when it contracts It brings them together, but what bicep curl exercises bring this part of the bicep closer to this one, right? So when I do this it's the part that's pulling my lower arm up when you're doing a chin up It's doing this almost to both sides So it's a very different feel different pull and I'm gonna give everybody a warning if you do these Be careful because they will wreck your arms like nothing you've ever done before they're really really tough and The pump is absolutely insane, but it's a compound lift for the bicep So you're probably right Justin That's probably what they are really hard because it's hard for people to do regular pull-ups It's even harder when you you're trying not to let the back involve the backs The the biggest part of that movement and when you take it out and you try and I mean it's gonna be involved And then in plus you have so many cable machines and different like Machines specifically geared for bicep because it's like a favorite muscle of people work And so you have all these other options that are like much easier to just get into That's just something like you really have to it's a lot more demanding to get to do something Yeah, my tip would be if you've never tried this is to assist it with a band first So you could really concentrate on the form and hopefully get like five to ten reps versus, you know Struggling just to get one or two. You can also make this a pumping exercise with a lat pulldown bar So you can use lighter weight Like you're gonna do a lat pulldown grab that supinated grip and then do what I said where you're focusing on the biceps on the way down And because the weights lighter you can get do more reps You'll get a crazy pump but it's again, it's a compound lift for the bicep So I actually used to do a lap pulldown bar and bicep curls behind my head So that was like an extra because again trying to try to go after that that elbow position They're just that's not a lot of machines and you can't with with gravity I do obviously do it with free weight stuff.  That's a gnarly squeeze by the way It is a very very strange squeeze. You don't feel like with any other exercise but you know again if you If you examine if we listed the top one or two exercises per body part in terms of just sheer Muscle and strength building effect, you know effectiveness and I want to be clear all exercises have value if applied Appropriately this includes isolation exercises correctional exercises and compound lifts But if you were to list the top two or three Like just muscle building movements for each body part What you'll see are our compound lifts Like the the number one shoulder builder is going to be a press right the number one chest builder is a horizontal press The number one back exercise a row or a pull down or a pull up. Yeah, they just skipped right over biceps I think that is really interesting. Yeah, that we we've associated even triceps Like you said with like depths and you can do things where you're doing a compound lift But biceps just you know just seems like there isn't anything Yeah, and I think if people did it and then started to understand how to feel it because once you do it It's going to feel kind of weird at first, especially if you've always done pull-ups in a particular way It's like a different kind of a pulling yourself up and again The risk of injury is high because the tension is high and you might not have the technique or form So I think what you gave was great advice Adam to start light with assistance or even like I said with lap pulldown bar But once you get into the groove of it and feel it you'll be like what the hell I've been I've been missing out on such an effective advice You could also use the tips that we've given around isometrics to to help you figure this out too, right? So I would get a band underneath there have somebody do an isometric hold at the bottom thinking about squeezing and flexing bicep And then another one where you're all the way the top squeezing and focusing on there. Oh, like you're just holding yourself Yeah, exactly just holding yourself at the top and holding yourself at the bottom Will help you engage the biceps more when you try and practice a movement like that that you're not used to Is it one of the other great values of isometrics is when you when you when you're trying to do an exercise That traditionally isn't for that specific muscle group doing an isometric contraction for the muscle You do want to work in that will help you connect. They're just good for you familiarizing yourself with that Yeah, that contraction that movement and what you're trying to produce out of it. You know, it's funny I've been going through studies on isometrics funny. You bring this up, right and the studies show that so There's obviously when you work out use resistance the goals typically our strength and muscle building Isometrics the muscle building effect you get from them now it's shorter lived But the initial muscle gain and strength is actually faster than you get from traditional lifting So what happens when you incorporate isometrics is you get this very steep And dramatic rise in muscle and strength now it starts to plateau if you don't incorporate traditional exercises, which is why It's my belief that isometrics are best used to supplement traditional Resistance training but man if you read the literature on the strength gains and the muscle gains in short periods of time It's nothing matches. I know what's your effective way to summon the troops What's your theory on why it does have quicker results? That's why yeah, because it's it's a neuromuscular. It's it's you're You're tapping into that central nervous system response of like, hey Like i'm gonna need to activate more muscle fibers because i'm placing more intensity and demand On this particular squeeze and so you can actually ramp that up and and get more of a response But now you actually have to then from there Like you said you have to go into those lifts where it actually places the load and everything else to account for Yeah, so you think you're actually recruiting more muscle fibers isometrically contracting than doing a full contraction It's a fact Yeah, it's a fact So so once you're well trained you're squeezing way more potential. Yes So really tapping into and activating muscle fibers is part of the that's part of the The goal right with resistance training and what you'll find with with, um, experienced athletes Especially experienced strength athletes is they could they can activate more of their muscle fibers than the average person I don't know what the number is but it's significant, right? Isometrics make that happen much faster probably because there's a shorter Learning curve. So like you take so I would have said it's easier It's easier to figure out where there's more room for error in a in a traditional full range of motion Lift, yes, there's like someone can do for example Let's take a very basic easy one bicep curls And when they're actually doing a full contraction many times it starts awfully well bicep But then shoulders kick in and momentum kicks in and so you lose some of the value as far as keeping it all Focused on the bicep versus I take a bar and I put it halfway up in an isometric contraction And I just squeeze and flex the bicep. I feel like it's much more localized. Yeah, it's localized It's and it's easy to localize it There's less room for error and like I'm not going to be squeezing that and my calves light up or my Well, you'd have to basically go through each one of those angles isometrically to you know Maintain that same amount of intense tension. So it it requires a lot more focus Yes to get to that point it also it also causes less muscle damage than both eccentric and concentric contraction So concentric is like going up eccentric now that support that I find interesting because you you say that it recruits more muscle fibers But then yet it does less damage. It does less damage really interesting Yes, because of the what is it the sliding filament theory, which is like, okay, so muscle fibers Okay, we're going to get all weird here But muscle fibers run along each other and the the prevailing theories to how muscles contract is They attach to each other while they're sliding past each other And contract and hold but as you do the contraction some of these attachments break and that's what causes the damage or inflammation Well, an isometric hold they attach they hold and they contract. So there's less potential For damage eccentric, right lowering causes the most damage because as you lower you're breaking a lot of these Spread apart. Yeah, and that's the theory, right? So you can do So here's like the cool thing about isometrics. You can do them frequently So I can hammer my, you know, chest maybe a couple days a week or a few days a week I could do isometrics every day at my level, right? So a beginner maybe less But it's less damage, which is cool because you can ramp up volume without worrying so much about overtraining So whatever routine you're doing You may think I want to add a little bit isometrics is a great way to do it. In fact Isometrics is one of those lost arts of resistance training It was so heavily favored at the turn of the, you know At the turn of the 19th century the strongman and all those guys, you know, Eugene Sandow and All those, you know strong men and women that did just incredible feats of strength Isometrics was a staple in their training that also highlights why things like kin stretch Are so much better than just traditional yoga, right? So both of them are taking you in these stretched positions But kin stretch includes the isometric contraction in there where you're really intensifying So you're building you're building muscle in that new range of motion that You know, you know, it's about being strong in those poses, right? You're not just you're not just stretching into that position and relaxing and holding that holding that position You're actually isometrically contracting in there So you're recruiting all these extra muscle fibers and actually building some strength in that new found You know, who's a huge fan of isometrics? I've said this before, uh, Bruce Lee Bruce Lee did Probably he did resistance training. He was one of the first martial artists to do it. In fact, he He worked with bodybuilders at the time and to develop his physique and everything too because he noticed it The story goes that this is legend, but I don't know if it's true He wrote this himself, but he says that he got into a fight He won but then he was so surprised at how fatigued he was And how weak his body felt the end. So he said I need to you know, do more physical conditioning Well resistance training become a part of it and obviously Bruce Lee not a big guy But at the time probably one of the most muscular people on screen actually, um inspired a lot of Pro bodybuilders to become bodybuilders and I'll flex wheeler talked about Bruce Lee Being what does that lat spread in the beginning when he's kind of warming up to fight or whatever And isometrics was a huge part of his routine and it was said that he could hold a I want to say 200 pound dumbbell at arm's length and hold it steady And he said isometrics gave him incredible punching power because of the stability that he developed. So It really does work. Um, it's not so popular nowadays, which is interesting probably because it's not sexy, but Um, I I foresee this being the next big thing in fitness again, of course Usually it's the old stuff that comes back. So it's not going to be the you know The next big thing said next old thing that becomes the next big. Yeah I've been way ahead of my time with a lot of these things. We'll see if it catches or way behind. However, you look at it Either way you look at it Hey, if you enjoyed that clip you can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here and be sure to subscribe