The global population is living longer than ever before, yet significant disparities exist between those who have access to proper nutrition and healthcare services and those who do not. These inequalities are compounded by insufficient access to reliable information about nutrition and healthcare, leading to mental and physical deterioration, increased risk of non-communicable diseases, decreased productivity, higher medical costs, and diminished quality of life. To address these issues, the World Health Organization, WHO, has proposed a Comprehensive Strategy and Action Plan for Healthy Aging, focusing on the importance of nutrition and its role in maintaining good health across the lifespan. This article was authored by Kremlin wikramasing, John C. Mathis, Susan Waperace, and others.


I'd like to welcome everybody back to the Independent Investor Channel rolling out a piece of promotional content on GlobeX data. This has been an incredible review that I've done here on a company that is selling privacy over personal data and corporate data alike. They are an emerging company here that is tackling the open source of data availability through platforms like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon alike. They basically take and house and store your data in a proprietary way using their virtual vault technology. GlobeX data is traded under the over the counter quality board markets under the ticker symbol SWISF and on the Canadian exchanges under the ticker symbol SWIS. Full disclaimer and disclosures will be provided in the description below as well as the company's website, which I found very useful in finding the slide deck news releases and progress being made by GlobeX data. With that guys, let's jump into the investor presentation and find out some of the exciting things that are going on right now with data protection at GlobeX data. Love to welcome everybody into GlobeX data. This is an incredibly interesting company and well timed here with the emergence of how important it is to protect individuals and businesses data using high level encryption. GlobeX data goes above and beyond. We're going to jump into this investor presentation. You guys are going to want to stick around here. If you're interested in the concept of protecting data and not allowing data to be open sourced here, I think we're just learning as we incur more data breaches by some of the major providers like Microsoft and Amazon and the like that are using open source and mining individuals data and using it for their own benefit. GlobeX data takes a completely different approach to protecting not only individuals data, but the data of major corporations out there. So stay tuned as we jump into the investor presentation for GlobeX data. So GlobeX uses what they call their virtual vault technology. We're going to talk much more about this with the CEO when he comes on the independent investor channel, but they provide these privacy and secure over four product suites here using their secure product here to secure mail, messaging and also data in their secure safe. It is a proprietary technology and they store all the data in Switzerland. There's absolutely a strategic reason for that. We'll get into that as to why Switzerland is the optimal place for this technology to be housed here with the virtual vault technology that's put out by GlobeX. And Switzerland is the optimal place for data storage. The one I'd like to highlight here is that it's independent of the cloud act of 2019, which is applicable here in the US and EU. Switzerland has been a neutral player for many, many decades. It's got a neutral posture and a great environment geopolitically. So incredibly stable government. It's got the maximum data privacy in their sovereign laws in Switzerland, which makes it an absolutely excellent place to house personal data and corporate data using their proprietary technology. So cyber attacks and theft of data are identified as two of the top 10 business risks most likely to happen. You can see here the financial services element is the largest of the targeted threats obviously going after people's personal identifiable information and bank accounts specifically anything that's financial related here. And I think we've evolved to this place here where with the emergence of modern technology and having everything open source and moving people at least over the last 15 or 20 years to more of an online presence. I don't think the ramifications of that huge transition could have fully been appreciated. And that's why companies like GlobeX are stepping forward and saying, hold on a second. We really need to fight this head on and allow people to opt into something that is military grade as far as protecting personal data, financial data, transaction data, everything of the like that we're pushing through our traditional open source means here. GlobeX is taking a completely different approach to this and allowing people to protect that data, acknowledging how important it is to safeguard that data over time. So if you've ever had your credit card hacked, this is part of it. You're 300 times more likely to have a cyber attack on anything financially related. And this is going to get worse. So the need for businesses like GlobeX that are stepping forward and basically just coming out and saying look, and they are they are the best technology on the market and very, very unknown. I didn't even know that this company existed. And they're working hard to put their notoriety out there and combat this problem head on as people are really getting tired of having their data breached as a cost of doing business. And I think it's increasing the value of personal data. It's increasing the value of having financial information safeguarded in a place by a company that knows what they're doing and can give people that peace of mind to understand that they won't be victims of these targeted attacks. So representative sample pool on how the bad actors are targeting vulnerabilities out there in the marketplace. And it is an environment fraught with targets. And really GlobeX is allowing each individual or companies the opportunity to step forward and really make a stand against these number of different ways that individuals and companies alike are being exploited. We just in this year had Microsoft drop an enormous data breach. And once those breaches happen, they're done that data is compromised. It's out there in the open. And I think people are getting tired of really just being subject and vulnerable to the bad actors out there that look to exploit exploit personal information data, corporate data in any one of these capacities and many others. And again, we I believe that they're going to get worse. And I think the need to acknowledge the value of protecting data really needs to be put out there for corporate and individual awareness. And this is the data flow, both internally and externally, and the charge of organizations and really the realization of companies to shore up on their information security in all capacities, whether or not it is communicating with other companies out there or with their internal communications between employees with email communications and the like. And this is really just a step in the right direction. But we are just at the beginning stages of having corporates corporations say that's enough. We need to take radical steps in the right direction to secure both our internal data and our communications outward. Now, once proactively corporations take that stand to secure their own data, Globe X is an amazing opportunity because it can be utilized by the host company, even if other companies do not secure the services of a company like Globe X. So it allows companies to take a proactive stance to protect both their internal and external communications within their businesses. So these large data hacks that are happening now are as a result of these large open source coding with lack of security. And I think it's prompting a paradigm shift in the industry to strategically look at those businesses that say, you know what, we might have a small niche here, but we're going to go to more of a targeted type of protection posture with our own data and not be subject to these large cloud companies, especially with Microsoft, with the Google, and an Amazon alike, where the secure products can at least allow these small entities, and it's not going to happen overnight. It's not going to happen overnight, but it's slowly starting to trickle into some of these companies that are integrating the secure products into their organizations. And they are reaping the benefits of being able to be forward with their customers and provide this level of encrypted data protection for their businesses. So Globe X is targeting the most common channels, which we can all agree are email messaging and file transfer. These are commonplace in our day to day communications, even in the workplace in our personal lives. And they are targeting with their secure suite of products. Globe X is going after these major swaths of common channels, and securing those for individuals and for companies alike. I've seen these products in action, they're absolutely fantastic. They're easy to use. This is secure for email and messaging solutions here at military level encrypted chat, confidential contact search. Remember, Globe X never takes your data and sells them, which makes them a standalone from any of the other large companies that are selling your data for profit, make no mistake about it. The opportunity to engage in private communications in a private environment, fantastic proprietary secure send and secure reply email. This is cutting edge stuff here guys and the opportunity to enjoy these secure products with a certain guarantee that your data is being protected at the highest levels of technology that's available now in the marketplace. And just an introduction to secure messenger will get into all these products when we interview the CEO. But the cool thing about this is a confidential contact search by secure number only, they don't take your phone number when you register for this product, you're awarded a unique ID, which is great. Again, with the military level encrypted chats and file transfer up to the standards of the Swiss data protection laws and not subject to the cloud act of 2019 here in the US. So this company is really incredible, taking a different twist to combating the compromise of personal data and corporate data alike. And same idea just to introduce secure mail. Secure mail offers private and secure end to end encrypted emails from servers in Switzerland. This is just really, really a cool one of their suite of products here that they roll out through the Globex portfolio of products. This is again hosted by the Swiss servers communications application for both personal and corporate use. And they're already starting to win opportunities with some of the corporate contracts that they've got in place. Now we'll discuss that more in length when we interview the CEO, Elaine Guy on the channel here in about a week's time. So look forward to getting a little bit more in depth information on this product offering from Globex. And finally, the secure safe product is the way to store all of your data. Fantastic, individually stored on their server in such a proprietary manner, nobody else is storing data in this in this manner. There's so much encryption going on and they store each and every account individually on the server, using the virtual vault technology, which is just really, really impressive what these guys have been able to do. And it hasn't happened overnight. This company has been doing this for about 10 years with their sister companies. So they've been working on this initiative, really with the guidance and the leadership of Elaine Guy, the CEO of the company who's vested in the company as well. We'll discuss his level of commitment to the Globex data opportunity for individuals and for corporations when we have them on the channel. And here's a cross comparison on Globex and how they stack up with the competition. They blow it away. It's just no doubt about it right now. Globex is really just trying to provide awareness and win over those companies that are overdue and didn't understand that a company like this even existed and they do. So for awareness, it's extremely important for users of this product as well as investors to understand that Globex is taking a stance here against some of the major offers here that for years have been doing it wrong and being subject to data breaches that are 100% avoidable. And so you can see how they check all the boxes in a cross comparison with some of the major offers. And they're doing that for the end user. Their whole business is about securing data. Whereas some of the big folks out there, especially with Google and Microsoft and Amazon, their whole intent is to take and data mine your data and sell it for profit. So a completely different initiative here with the Globex opportunity. And here's some of our most common messaging and communicating tools that we use here does does not even compare. These guys blow it out of the water. Again, they can provide this optimal service here being based in Switzerland and being subject to the Swiss laws and also being outside of some of the open source allowances by some of the large companies to do what they do in providing suboptimal service to clients. And I just think from a knowledge perspective, I don't think users truly understand how vulnerable their data is in the current open source environment. Some of the strategic industries of target here of note, of course, financial services and insurance being the top most targeted. But think about some of the others in telecommunications, the military is great oil and gas, the government when you talk about, you know, storing your data in one of the most secure sovereign nations in Switzerland, it's really intriguing to the value proposition of not only data, but data that must, and I do footstomp must be protected at all cost. Globex is the only solution in the world right now that provides that level of safeguarding using their proprietary technology. So the distribution model is really, really simple. Globex, they charge a monthly fee, it's $5.  It means for a sticky service. In other words, people who are signing up for this are understanding how incredible each and every time they send an email to understand that it's being safeguarded at the level that Globex boasts. It's incredible. Now, their other is their acquisition piece where partners bear the cost of client acquisition. We'll get into this more with the CEO here, but a massive addressable market and $500 billion per year. And I think this is just the beginning here with this technological revolution and the need to scale back on how open source and how open we are with our communications. Globex provides the only solution globally that can boast this level of data protection for individuals and for corporations. These are some of the global partnerships that they've been able to solidify in their deal making capabilities here spearheaded, I will say by Elaine Guy. I've done a lot of research on Mr. Guy. I'm just a fantastic advocate of this product and what he had to go through to secure the American Moville deal just to highlight a couple on this slide. We'll get into a little bit more here, but you notice there Keller Williams and Remax on the real estate side. These large institutions have already integrated the Globex opportunity for their employees understanding how important it is for those communications to be secured and they get to boast that they do that for their clients and their employees. It's a win-win for any organization. Again, when I talked about both internal and external communications, it just makes sense guys and some of these large global partnerships are really starting to solidify and start the domino effect as people really start to buy in to the importance of data protection in today's environment. So the unique value proposition here for Globex, I want to highlight a couple here, 100% owned infrastructure. There's no Amazon web services. There's no Google infrastructure. There's no Microsoft Azure cloud. All the services are servers are inspected manually. So this is independent of the open source that most people use out there and are just subjecting their data to breach in a large capacity here. We've talked about not being subject to the US laws. So really kind of being on a stand alone in a sovereign nation and neutral nation like Switzerland, which is just a perfect fit for an application like this. Elaine Guy is the founder and CEO of Globex data. We're going to have him on the channel. So stay tuned for that. You're going to want to hear it right from the boss. This guy is an incredible, incredible figure in the industry. He's very well respected. 40% ownership internal of the company. They have a vested interest in this company. He's absolutely the pioneer really that has really got Globex on an international attention with some of the large partnerships that they've been able to garner here as of late. We'll hear more from Elaine Guy when he's a guest on the channel and we'll get a little bit deeper in Elaine Guy's involvement with Globex and the company. Multiple opportunities to find more information on Globex data. You can visit their website at globexdatagroup.com, secure.com. You can get a hold of their investor relations at corporate at globexdatagroup.com and find them on any of the social media platforms out there. They're just starting to roll out some awareness pieces. So you're going to see more information come out on Globex data. But this has been a real pleasure to review this company looking to tackle a huge issue both for large businesses and for individuals in securing data in the way that technology allows in today's environment. All right guys. So we've come out of the investor presentation here for Globex data. Want to remind all investors to do their own due diligence on companies such as Globex data. This is a company that we're providing awareness on. I didn't know this company exists. It's been around for 10 years. They've been making incredible strides in knocking down some incredible relationships with some interesting strategic global partners. And we wanted to roll out that progress on Globex data that's taking a different stance here and really reeling back our understanding of how private and how secure our data is on the open source network. Guys, we've evolved so fast in the last 10 years with technology. And I think we've moved too fast in some categories. And I think we need to reel back our availability of our data on the open market here that's being mined openly for corporate profit. Globex is taking a different approach here and saying, hold on a second. We've got a product here that can secure personal communications all the way up to those corporate businesses who need to ensure protection and privacy is provided not only for internal communications, but also external communications between companies. If you appreciate the information coming through on the independent investor channel, I'd invite you to subscribe to the channel, leave your comments at the bottom of the video and share the message with anybody that's interested in the cybersecurity space, specifically to the protection of data and secure communications conduits. Globex fits that. And they are the best in the industry at what they do. I was proud to chronicle this company and hope you guys find value in it as well. Guys, thank you so much for tuning into the video and good luck in your investment future.


What's going on, if you're new to the family, welcome back to another video. It's your girl Janice. If you guys are new to the channel, don't forget to hit that subscribe button and join the family. So guys, Isaiah just went to go put air in his tire. He just went to the gas station, I believe.  So guys, as you can see, I am going to be pranking Isaiah today and I am going to be telling him that there's gonna be a snack on the table.  And then if he says yes, I'm gonna tell him that I'm gonna go pick up pizza for us and that if he gets back before I do, I'm gonna leave a snack on the table for him. But guys, I'm not really going to the pizzeria. That's just an excuse just to see his reaction, guys, because I'm going to be laying on the table. The snack is gonna be me. So we're gonna catch him super off guard, I hope, and I hope that he understands the joke that he thinks is really funny. So guys, if you guys are ready for today's video, don't forget to smash that like button and comment team Denise in the comment section below.  So let's get him. What's up? Where are you? You at the gas station? I'm literally putting it right now. Okay, all right. So I'm gonna just get you a slice of pizza or something like that. So yeah, I'm about to go to the pizzeria right now. So I'm just gonna leave a snack on the table for you. So that way if you get back before I do, you have something to munch on while I'm gone. Because I don't know how long the pizza's gonna take. What are you getting for yourself? I don't know. I'm probably gonna get a salad or something. Probably not stew. Okay. Make sure they give you marinara sauce, please. Okay, do you want pepper flakes? Sure, why not? All right, I'll tell them. All right. All right, love you, bye. Love you. All right, so the trap is set and we are freaking ready to go. Oh my God, I feel so bad. I'm probably gonna have to get pizza after the party, so whatever. All right, let's get it. All right, I'm in the fam, so the camera's all set up. I'm pretty sure that when he gets here, he's gonna be really surprised that I got here before he did. So I'm just going to go ahead and I'm gonna sit over there and we're gonna wait for him to come home and get his reaction. Let's go. We're so about to sit on the table. I'm so scared because I got in a ball. I don't want to break it, okay. Yeah, I know, it was fast. Where's my slice and where's my garlic now? The microwave is empty, where's the food? Okay, do this on the phone. For real, for real, you ate my slice? Yes. Why? We couldn't eat it. But where's the garlic now? I forgot the garlic now. For real, like you forgot the garlic? Yes, I forgot it. I'm sorry, babe. Well then, where's the snack that you said you were gonna leave with? Right here. Here. Where are you leaving? What? I didn't see anything. There's nothing. Hello. I keep being woke. Snack, baby. No, you ain't no snack. You a food course meal. Ooh. I like that. I like this, too. Mm-hmm. I know you do. Alex, come here, yoches. You look more than that. I said you look like that. More delicious than pizza? Oh, absolutely.  You want me to? Yeah. Yeah? Mm-hmm. I told you to go take off that lip gloss first. Why? Because it's super sticky and I don't want it. Why? Because it's super sticky, I don't want it.  You want a table? Yeah. So that's what you want? Okay. I'm giving you a full course meal. Okay, this is a five-star meal, too. Oh, yeah.  No! Yeah, that's it. No. While you're there, you can take it off the top, you can take it off the bottom.  Bro, we can do whatever we want on the table.  I have a smell like vanilla up in here. Oh, yeah?   I was gonna say, I already smell like vanilla.  I do. Come on, come on.  You already know what I wanna do.  I don't wanna take off the lip gloss.  I did, I straightened it. You like it? I'm only gonna do a little too much.  I'm not sure, why, why not? Help me out the table. Okay, ready? My snack was cake. You gotta maybe get the whipped cream and put it on top of the cake.  What? I'm giving you my ice cream. All right, all right, you got time, you got time.  I'm gonna sip some water real quick, because. Oh, you thirsty? Oh, yes, I am. You getting thirsty? Oh, yes, I am. But babe, are you enjoying your snack?  Oh, yeah? Dang right. Pause it. Bruh, you gotta make my sweat. Babe, I have something to tell you. You, my pizza, where'd you put it? I knew you was hiding it, where'd you put the pizza? Don't put it, don't tell me you put it in the fridge. I didn't put anything in the fridge. I'm looking. You're looking? I thought I would've been in the back, because I already see it just now when I opened it, looking for water. Yeah? Where'd you put it? That's nasty if you put it in the back.  What am I, what am I, pizza? Stop doing that. What? Because this is the last table, we could get really bad over here. We could break this table real fast. Where's my pizza for real? I never got you pizza, babe. You really ate it? Pizza to begin with. What do you mean you never got me pizza? You didn't go to the pizzeria? No. Where'd you go? Nowhere.  It's used for what? Are you really? Yes. This, this is the pocket.  That's all I gotta say. And this is my facial expression right here. You literally just did that like two seconds? Literally two seconds, because you're out of pocket. Look, this is where you belong. This, that's me. You have a birthmark? Are you cheek?  I never noticed that.   So, today's video, don't forget to smash that like button again and comment team Janice in the comment section below. Also, don't forget to turn your post notification bells on so you're notified whenever we post a new video. Speaking of post notifications, today's post notification shout out, you wanna keep, you wanna keep dropping the marker? I don't care, I'll do it again too. Today's post notification shout out goes out to every single one of you, literally every single one of you, infinite fam members, every infinite fam person, child, dad, mom, subscribe to the infinite fam because we hit 500K, finally, 500K subscribers. We hit 500K and this is how you decide to go, Gaudi. What? By pranking you. This your big bang? Yep, team Janice has to come with the W's. You already know. How do you? No, no, no, no, no, it's just because all the new infinite fam members that are coming are just automatically gonna go to team Janice because team Janice is the best team ever. Bro, I'm gonna murky. No, you're not. Watch, my pranks are gonna be crazy. Oh gosh, guys, he swears that his pranks are better than mine. Anyway, guys, again, I just wanna say thank you so much from the bottom of my heart, like 500,000 or like half a million. So, I just, I don't know, I'm just lost for words right now, like I love you guys so much. Isaiah and I appreciate you, you have no idea. Let's get to one million, we're on the road to a million subscribers. Oh my goodness, it sounds so crazy saying that, but I love you, Isaiah loves you, and we will catch you guys in the next one. Out of pocket.


Hey guys, it's MJ and in this video, I want to look at actuarial risk management and I want to consider something that most actuaries deal with and that is known as the actuarial control cycle. So what is this actuarial control cycle and why is it so important to the actuarial profession? So in a sense, there are five elements to this control cycle and what we're going to be doing in this video is just talking through each of the five So the first one and I guess the very first step in the actuarial control cycle is understanding the economic environment. So as actuaries what we want to know or what we want to do before we attempt anything is have a good understanding of the economic environment. This can be what is the inflation rate? What are the interest rates? What are the currency exchange rates? You know, what is the monetary policies? What's the fiscal policies? The tax rates? All of these things will fall under the economic environment and Actuaries are expected to have a very good understanding of economics and everything before going into the control cycle. So this is kind of like it's like the start to the cycle. Then we have the actual cycle itself which I'm going to draw a big little square from over here and before I get into it I just wanted to draw the final element and I'm doing this a little bit backwards and the final element is professionalism and the reason why I'm drawing a chair is because just like the economic environment it's saying that you always need to know so you always need to maintain a degree of professionalism when going into any actual problem. So these are two elements of the control cycle that fall outside of it but you always need to be aware of them. Well, you always need to have the knowledge of the economic environment and you always need to have the integrity of professionalism when you enter into the cycle. Okay, now we can get to the interesting part and the first one is specifying the problem. So there's that is that famous saying that a problem well stated is a problem half-solved or something like that and that's what actuaries want to do first off is specify the problem. Say what you're trying to accomplish whether it's passing an exam, setting a premium rate, calculating the reserves. You want to specify the problem. You want to say what you want to achieve. Then what you're going to do is you're going to develop the solution, which I know sounds kind of obvious but that is number two and that is to develop the solution. Now what is interesting is that there is a little bit of feedback going back. So while you're developing the solution you want to keep looking and saying, well, is the solution actually solving the problem that we want to do. No point in calculating the reserves if you want to figure out what the premium payments should be. So you always want to develop the solution but keep in mind what the problem is and then the final one which is, I think this is what makes it the most actuarial is is this number three here which is monitoring the experience. So the idea is that once you have solved the problem or once you've developed the solution you're not necessarily done. You're not finished yet. So let's say you say, okay, we need to calculate the reserves. You now need to monitor the reserves and if the reserves go below a certain amount maybe that would then feedback into the problem. So we need to have 10% of our reserves doing something. We developed the solution or the strategy to enable that but then we need to constantly monitor that to make sure that the reserves are behaving as we want because with actuarial science it's a dynamic subject, things are changing, there's random fluctuations and we need to be reactive if the problem pops up again and just because we've developed a solution doesn't mean it's gone forever but it might reappear and that's why you need to monitor the experience. And in a sense, this is the actuarial control cycle. Every single actuarial problem can be solved by first gaining a good understanding of your economic environment by approaching it with professionalism and then doing the three steps that all kind of feed back on each other which is specifying the problem, developing the solution and then monitoring the experience. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this video and if you have any questions about the actuarial control cycle please feel free to leave a comment in the comment section below. Cheers!


You will face the darkness of your deeds, whether you like it or not. And in this particular case, Allah is not speaking about those who are non-believers or disbelievers alone, but there are two types of oppression, two types of wrongdoing. The ultimate wrongdoing is known as shirk, that which is unacceptable by Allah. When you, for example, perpetrate a crime against Allah by worshipping deities with Allah or besides Allah, Allah says, you know what, أنا اغنا شركائے عانی شرکی من عملا اشرکہ فیهی معی غیری ترکتو هو شرکا. You want to associate a partner in this deal or act of worship with me, I am the most independent of partners. You know what, I don't need the deal. Give it all to the partner. I don't want it. Imagine when you're a wealthy person, multimillionaire and someone tells you, OK, I've got ten dollars here. You know five is for that guy and five for you. The wealthy guy will say, give all ten to him. What do I need the ten for? So when you engage in an act of worship, make sure you understand it's only for Allah. Allah says, if you associated a partner with me in that act of worship, I don't need it. Give all ten dollars to that guy. Subhan Allah. What an explanation. What wording in the Hadith Qudsi of Allah Subhanahu و تعالی. May Allah grant us understanding. But the second type of oppression and wrongdoing is amongst each other. When you do wrong amongst each other, when I do wrong to you, I have to taste the result of that wrong. Either now or later on, but in my life before I die. And then after I die. Why in my life? Why? Why is it that Allah doesn't just leave it for the day of judgment? Because man's nature is such that when someone does wrong to him, he wants to see the effect of it. That's man's nature. He wants to see, wow, this guy is doing so much wrong. He's getting away with murder. He's done so much. But we'd like to see that Allah is doing something about this. Now, it might not happen in my life if I was oppressed. But definitely in the life of the oppressor. The one who did wrong, definitely in his life, he will taste it in one way or another. Now, why am I saying this evening in Salatul Isha intentionally I read from Suratul Furqan because it brings about comfort to the heart. Suratul Furqan is one of the most beautiful Suras in the Qur'an. You ask the Huffa, they enjoy reading it even if they don't know its meaning. What about those who know the meaning? Al Furqan was revealed in Makkah at a time when the Khufar of Quraish were accusing Rasulullah with so many accusations. They harmed him. They said, you know what?   You have done this. You have done that. You are after money. You are after power. And they started harming him. They started accusing him. They even murdered some of his companions. They started threatening them. And you know what? There was an issue. What was the issue? As much as the believers in Makkah knew that we are on the straight path. They knew we are on the straight path. But they wanted some form of comfort from Allah. I mean I could be a strong woman. But when I see things wrong happening every single day. How long am I going to be able to tolerate this? Or how long am I going to be able to stay with it? It might work on my iman. Shaytan may be able to come and try his tricks with me. Even though he may not succeed. But it's easy for those to shake who have been shaken for a long long time. That's why the Quran says وَزُلْزِلُوا حَتَّا يَقُولَ الْرَّسُولُ وَلَّدِينَ آمَنُوا مَعَهُ مَتَا نَسْرُ اللَّهِ اللہ says ڈالا اِنَّ نَسْرَ اللَّهِ قَرِبِ اللہ tested the religious people. اللہ tested the prophets. اللہ tested the greatest of the great. So much that there came a time when they who were prophets of Allah and the pious who were the companions of those prophets, they began to ask when is the help of Allah going to come. If that is being asked by the prophets and by the pious who are we, may Allah help us. So Allah says don't worry. When that happens and you are shaken, we have tested you. If you still haven't lost your faith, our help is nia. What is the meaning of nia? Allah knows. Nia could be today, tomorrow, a year, two years, five years. But the end result is in your favor. Do not doubt that. Do not doubt that. Never ever doubt the justice of Allah. Because it has to come. So Allah سبحانہ و تعالیٰ in سورة الفرقان He tells Rasulullahﷺ clearly look, We will punish these people in the Akhira.  So Allah says when Jahannam sees them, Jahannam will start crackling, crackling. You see sometimes people try to tease and mock. You know when you see someone and you know that they are for example oppressive. There is a hadith which says a sign of Qiyamah is اِن یکرم الرجولو مخافة شرح. A man will be honored. Not because he deserves honor because we fear his backlash. When you see that happening, you know Qiyamah is not far. Today you say Salam علیکم جی. How are you brother? Not because you want to greet him. But because you know this man if you don't he can do something to you that will unnecessarily harm you. That's a sign of Qiyamah to honor a man because he deserves honor is nobility. But to honor a man who is not worth looking at is a sign of Qiyamah. Sign of Qiyamah. Why are you honoring him? Why do you listen etc. Because the hadith says it's a sign of Qiyamah. مخافة شرح. We are fearing maybe if we don't do this he might harm us. So we have no option. So the Prophetﷺ Allah knows he was upon the highest level. So Allah says in the same way they were intimidating. جہنم the crackle will come and intimidate them. Like tell me this is where you're coming. Who is saying this? جہنم itself is cracking. اِذارا اتھو مِمْ مَکَانِ دَعِدِ سَمِعُ لَهَا تَغَيْضَا وَزَفِرَا اللہ says when they get closer to جہنم they will hear the sound of the crackle of جہنم welcoming them into that fire and it will become louder as they get closer as though it is saying we were waiting for you for so long you welcome home now Allah protect us Why? Because you used to wrong the people you used to oppress you used to harm I always tell people your colleagues, your family members watch your tongue with them behave with the people understand they are human beings when they raise their hands to Allah to destroy you you're a goner you're a goner we suffer sometimes health sometimes wealth and we don't know why I'm reading my salah I'm giving my zakah because there was a maid that worked for you 5 years ago you accused of something you made her cry tears she said oh God destroy this man you are suffering as a result of the dua that she made because the hadith says اِتھاکِ دا وَتَلْ مَضْلُمْ فَا اِنَّهُ لَیْ سَبَئِنَ ها وَبَئِنَّ اللہِ حِجابِ there is no barrier between the dua that is made against you by someone that you did wrong against in the eyes of Allah between them and Allah no barrier when they make a dua Allah says we will give it to you maybe not now but you will have a day when you are going to see and you are going to say سبحان اللہ oh Allah you are just سبحان اللہ that's why when Jahannam starts intimidating Allah says you know what will be said to them لا تدعو اليوم ثبورا واحدہ و دعو ثبورا كفیرہ on that day they will say oh destruction upon us look at this this is destruction man Allah says not one destruction don't say one destruction you will be destroyed to smithereens totally Allah says we are going to destroy you once and twice and three times and four times how can you burn me ten times I can only burn once Allah says no کلما نضجت جلودوں بدللہوں جلودا غیرہا لیذوک العذاب every time their skins and their flesh is totally burnt we will just replace it with a new one so that they can taste a new all that burning and punishment once more in the dunya someone burns you a little while later the place becomes numb someone hurts you a little while later you can't feel it anymore it's gone you lost your sensation that's the mercy of Allah when someone tries to harm you beyond a certain degree physically you will die because that's the mercy of Allah Allah doesn't want you to taste pain more than a certain threshold beyond the threshold Allah says I'll just take you away mercy Subhan Allah you see someone shot you instead of feeling the pain what happened to you you died you went the mercy of Allah but we don't look at it that way but Allah says no it's our mess we don't allow man to taste pain beyond the point they cannot allow they cannot do it Allah won't allow it but Allah Subhanahu و تعالیٰ says you see these people those who have wronged those who have oppressed those who have accused those who have falsely accused Rasulullahﷺ those who have done harm those who have worshipped besides Allah Allah says don't worry in the aakhira we're going to punish them but there was another issue the companions of the Prophetﷺ they were happy to hear what's going to happen in the aakhira but they wanted to know what about the dunya man what about this world it's not easy for everybody to say okay I forgive Allah says it's over you need to have a big heart Subhan Allah and these days with the type of food we have the cholesterol makes it narrow Subhan Allah tight chest they say tight chest small heart as well may Allah forgive us Subhan Allah so Allah says in the next verses of Suratul Furqan سورہ Allah says don't worry let's prove to you what happened to people before you remember when we sent Moses Musaﷺ to the Pharaoh and his brother Harul we sent him as a companion and helper to him to be an assistant do you remember the time Subhan Allah yes we do what about it Allah says فَقُلْنَا we told him now this is encouragement to Muhammadﷺ and it is also comfort to all of us to say Allah is just Allah doesn't let things go by Allah won't let things go by so he says فَقُلْنَا ذْحَبَائِلَ الْقَوْمِ اللَّذِنَا کذبُوا بِ آیاتِنَا we told them we want you to go the people who are already oppressing the other people it's not like the Pharaoh wanted to do something against Moses and Harun Musaﷺ and Harun before that he was already doing wrong to his people and to the Banu Israel and to the others so Allah says we are sending you to go to him in order to guide him to remind him that he is not the boss he is not the king he cannot have it his way the king is Allah the boss is Allah the creator is Allah the just is Allah not you you are a mere creature of Allah who is going to close his eyes and you are going to face Allah he denied it what got to his head his power his authority his wealth everything of that nature got to his head really to the degree that he told them I am your Lord اللہ اِن وَیْرِ فِرْعَوْنْ تَلْزِسْ بِیْبَلْ اُوْمَاِ بِیْبَلْ I don't know of a God for you guys to worship besides me Audhu Billah what kind must that have been what type of power must he have had what type of authority must he have had you know what Allah says فَدَمْ مَضْنَا هُمْ تَدَمِرَا because of all of that we destroyed him into the smallest of pieces تَدْمِرْ means total utter sheer complete destruction towards Allah says دَمْ مَرْنَا هُمْ تَدْمِرَا they are connected it means the type of destruction and the amount of destruction is being described by Allah and he tells you total complete the people didn't want to believe that the Pharaoh has drowned Allah says no stress we will make the sea split his body when you see it motionless lifeless you're going to say some narration say what's this the guy what's this the guy yesterday this is what he was saying look at him today that's exactly what happened so Allah says don't worry it's coming but when did it come some narration say it came after 40 years 40 but it came whether today whether tomorrow but it came سبحان اللہ so Allah says look oh Muhammad SAW whether whatever happens they will face their day and they did سبحان اللہ they did the victory of Makkah came when did it come it came a few years later but it came let's carry on with the verses we're talking about the prophet SAW and the comfort received and the retribution against the oppressive one the one who did wrong Allah says وَقَوْ مَنُوحِ لَمْ مَا كَذَّبُر رُسُولا look at the people of Noah when they belied the messenger what did we do to them اغرقاناہم we just drowned them I was watching a whatsapp clip somewhere in the world only Allah knows where exactly it was 9 minutes of rain the city was gone I don't know if you saw that clip within 3 minutes in that clip already the buildings were moving this was very recently this year while we are speaking there are floods across the globe I promise you Allah is قادر مطلق Allah is the one who can do anything he tells us I did it already look Noah how long did we give them to turn to seek forgiveness to say I'm sorry to make peace with Allah how long did we give them Allah says we gave them 950 years after that we closed the door we told you can remain with your people but we want to give you news none of them are going to accept your message now Allah says after 950 years we closed the door the door of guidance was closed by you by Allah did you ever know that he says it in the Qur'an لَا اِنْ يُؤْمِنَ مِنْ قَوْمِكَ إِلَّا مَنْ قَدَ اَمَنْ اوْ نُوحْ we want to tell you no more people are going to accept Islam now door is closed Allah says that in the Qur'an why Allah says we just want you to prepare and then once you're ready we're going to send the punishment that's how detailed the Qur'an goes so Allah says what did we do when they did this we destroyed them now Muhammadﷺ and his companions they were thinking more so the companions when they heard the verse they said no indeed Allah is just Allah says if you don't suffice by that example we will give you more بين ذالکہ کثیرہ عاد ثمود اصحاب الرس and so many other generations Allah says all of them we have given the examples of all of them what did they do whatever they did we gave them some time during that time they got more excited there were some who might have turned yes they were saved but Allah says they became more and more and more when you tell someone fear Allah if they become angry at that the Qur'an in Suratul Baqarah describes that they are the devil themselves when someone reminds you of Allah brother read your Salah hey who are you straight you know this guy he's possessed by what by the devil Allah says with those hypocrites when you tell them to fear Allah when you remind them to do what is right to stay away from wrong it drives them deeper into the sin and the crime Allah says sufficient is for them Jahannam there's no other place for them why how can you allow your heart to become so hard you're a believer you believe in Allah you're supposed to be softened you can't allow that to happen my brothers my sisters when anyone reminds us of Allah and for us to watch our tongues and to watch our character and not to harm people what is hurting us to be polite to everybody what's hurting us why why can you not be polite to your brothers your sisters your parents your uncles your aunts your relatives those who are not related to you the public the workers those whom you are working with or those who are working for you or vice versa whoever you interact with what is stopping you from being polite you pay because you hurt someone's heart they cried a tear for you Allah has watched the tear one day there was a wife who came to Rasulullahﷺ complaining the prophetﷺ told her to wait and to hang on Allah says no way there's no waiting no hanging on قد سمیع الله قول اللہ تی تجادلو کافی زوجنہ و تشتکی إلى اللہ اللہ ریویل ڈو سی to say اللہ has already heard this discussion between the two of you and Allah heard this woman who is complaining to Allah and here is the solution and Allah gave the solution so be careful we don't want this oppression this punishment Allah says look at those who hurt in the past they did the major wrong which was also to disbelieve in Allah but they also harmed the prophets Allah says قضب الرسول they belied the messengers in so many ways Allah says اخرغناہم we drowned them all کلن تبرنا تتبیرہ you know the word تتبیر تبر it means to totally destroy them completely there's no way and I want to end with one beautiful beautiful point when these verses were revealed سورة الفرقان in the Quran ساکہ before even the مدینہ period سحابہ رضی اللہ عنہوں their ایمان became strong they had yaqeen oh Allah today we are struggling no problem we know the day of ad the day of thamood the day of fir'aan is going to come to these people it has to come we know it guarantee watch and wait and see so one day the prophetﷺ I think it was اومیر بن خلف if I'm not mistaken اومیر بن خلف so they were enemies real bad they used to harm they used to throw things they used to cause destruction رسول اللہﷺ says اللہ اومیر مسلط علیہ کلبم من کلابک oh Allah now the prophetﷺ doesn't normally and usually do this but this was too much if you look at all the prophets نوح علیہ السلام he never made dua against his people but when it became too much it got to a point where he said oh Allah finish up these people here after nine hundred years of sabr nine hundred and fifty years then he made the dua لوط علیہ السلام what happened the day they came and broke the wall or tried to break the wall that's the day he says oh Allah finish these people up Allah says don't worry the morning is their time you just carry on don't even look back so نوح علیہ السلام it gets to a threshold a point beyond which اللہ سبحانہ علیہ السلام lashes out so one day this man was walking out in the desert and he saw a lion coming to him he had so much conviction in his heart he told his colleagues this thing is coming for me I heard Muhammad say oh Allah let one of the dogs attack this man and kill him and the lion came and destroyed this man alone no one else straight for him he was taken and he was gone this is the yakin this is the dua this is what happens when Allah says be careful of the dua of the one you have wrong it will have far reaching effects now my brothers my sisters when we see things go wrong in our lives in sha Allah mostly it is a test from Allah it is a test if that thing brought us closer to Allah it was a blessing of Allah your proper closer to Allah it was definitely a test from Allah but if it took you further away from Allah and frustrated you and angered you and made you lose your sleep to the degree that your mind is being lost and you becoming angry and you can't sleep and you can't eat and you can't drink then it's the punishment of Allah now don't worry what people are telling you there just making you feel good it's the punishment of Allah why are you being punished first thing you ask yourself if your relationship with Allah is okay which means your salah is in order you're not a mushrik you don't commit shirk etc have you wronged someone even if it was a little baby a little child you want to scream yell at them you see that small baby could have said oh Allah break this man's bones now suddenly you don't know why you're suffering depressed stressed you don't know oh Allah finish them up oh Allah destroy them how you destroy Firaound we've heard people say this and the man looks like a pious guy subhan Allah but why don't we protect ourselves from these duhas the Sahaba رضی الله عنهم they never ever cursed never but when it passed a threshold sometimes it happened it even happened to the messengers beyond the point no one will tolerate it may Allah سبحانہ واتحالہ grant us a good lesson I pray that not only is this comfort for us when we are wronged but I pray that we stop ourselves from doing wrong to others and I really hope that we can start a campaign in our community to improve our character and conduct with our family members with our community with everybody else wallahi we can change the whole world I promise you we can change the world if you start a campaign with yourself that I'm going to really be the most polite person possible your life will change and you watch what Allah does in your life may Allah grant us baraka may Allah never destroy us may Allah سبحانہ واتحالہ not let the punishment overtake us I say this may Allah peace and blessings be upon you


your hands connect you to the world. So a strong grip is like, you know, that's the last line of defense, if you will.  You're dropping it. You can't do it, it just doesn't work. So it's a very important part of the body, just like any other part of the body is, but it's a neglected part of the body.  It's part of the kinetic chain. One of the easiest ways to improve your performance, vitality, and muscle growth is to simply strengthen your grip. You know, this is an area that is often neglected in training programs. Overlooked, I would say. You know what this conversation reminds me of? It was, maybe Doug could look up how many years ago it was, but I remember when we were trying to figure out like YouTube videos to go viral, and we're like always coming up with ideas. Was this another time I was right? Yeah, you're talking about building your forums. I'm gonna give you your credit guy, hang tight, I'll stroke you off, relax, hang on, I'll get there.  It's like, oh, everything's that we thought would go viral, never went viral, and stuff that we would never guess. And I remember Sal one time was like, we should do a forum video.  Focusing on that. And it was one of the most viral videos that you ever did. I remember being like, you gotta be kidding me. Who's searching for forum videos? It's like that and like ripping a phone book. I thought the ripping phone book, that was cooler. That was way cooler, that didn't go viral. So anyways, the forearm one was one that I thought for sure. Well, you know what's interesting is you don't think about this on its face because when people are training their body, they don't typically say, like most people are motivated because they want an aesthetic change, right? So I want to look different. Almost never do people say I want my forearms to look better or my hands to look more muscular. Nobody ever says that.  Even though it's like ingrained in every single exercise you're gonna do just about. Yes, however, however, when we do our, because we do every Sundays, we post a meme on our Instagram page, mind pump media, and it says Qua, Q-U-H. And that's where people post their questions. And inevitably there's at least one or two. This is for years now, it's been happening. At least one or two or more questions revolving around the grip. Like how can I make my grip stronger? I can't deadlift as much.  Should I use wrist straps? So it's just common questions, common problem that I think that people encounter. Now the other side of this is there's not a lot of stuff out there, right? So there's not a lot of good information out there on how to train your grip. Very few programs have grip or forearm training programmed in the workout. So it's like, well, what do I do for my grip? Do I just hold on to heavy weights? Like what are the exercises? What does that look like? So there's a lot of that.  So a strong grip is like, you know, that's the last line of defense if you will.  Doesn't matter, you're dropping it. You can't do it, it just doesn't work. So it's a very important part of the body, just like any other part of the body is, but it's a neglected part of the body.  The kinetic chain. It's also, I mean, I'm surprised you didn't bring up your, the, I don't know if it was a poll or a study they did on the grip strength of like a 20-year-old man today compared to like a 60-year-old man like in the 40s and 50s. No, in the 80s. Oh, the 80s. It was in the 80s. It was that recent. Yeah, the average college aged male today has the grip strength of a 60-year-old man in the early 80s. That's how much, and the reason why they use grip strength is because grip strength is actually a quite reliable, it's not perfect, of course, but a very reliable way to test overall body strength. So if you have a weak grip, you probably have a weak body. If you have a strong grip, you probably have a strong body. And of course, it's not perfect. There could be issues with someone's hands, they could, whatever. But for the most part, it tells you a lot and it's easy to test, right? It's an easy test.  Grip strength also, and this was, I remember when the first study came out with this, people were blown away, but now they've repeated it. Grip strength is actually a pretty reliable test to predict all-cause mortality. In fact, it's better than most other single metrics. Like you could go do blood tests and pick like single metrics. And there's some that can really predict well, especially if they're bad. But a lot of them, you need a combination of things to have a good predictor. Just grip strength alone will give you a pretty accurate reading of all-cause mortality because it measures overall body strength. It's an easy way to see if you can really summon strength. If you can recruit muscle fibers in a way where you can produce enough output so you can actually start moving heavy objects around. So it's a very simple way to make sure that you're staying on top of that. Yeah, it also predicts, though, it's also connected to, and what I mean by all-cause mortality is, yes, strength, that's an obvious one. But they connect it to overall mobility. They can connect it to osteopenia, osteoporosis, hormones, they can connect it to insulin sensitivity, diabetes, Alzheimer's, dementia. Of course, it's one metric, so it's not perfect. But man, is it interesting that one test can tell you so much about somebody because it has to do with overall body strength. And overall body strength is very closely connected to longevity. But yeah, the grip, the grip is what they test.  Yeah, I didn't realize that it was just the 80s. So what's your, what's the prevailing theory on why?  Like we know like over hundreds of years this stuff. That's a generation. Yeah, I know, for something like that's massive. So what is your theory that has happened in the last 20 to 40 years that has dramatically? We don't use our hands. Yeah. We don't use our hands for anything that's strenuous. Especially, yeah, manual labor has gone way down in terms of technology and making things easier. We used to have a lot more jobs where you really had to use your hands and grip to use on a frequent basis. And we all know that like frequency of like that kind of like manual labor or things, like you see the forearms that produces and the strength that produces and you just don't see a lot of trade type jobs where people are, you know, enrolling. Well, I mean, it was everyday life, like fixing your bike, working on your car, swinging a hammer, playing any kind of sport, right? It's just your hands are always involved. You know what's funny in that same study they showed that women's grips or college age women's grips didn't decline. In fact, there was a slight increase and this is likely due to the increase in women playing sports. So from the 80s to now, the percentage of girls that play sports has gone up because back then it was somewhat discouraged. It was, you know, masking or whatever, don't go to the gym type of deal. But with men, it went the opposite direction. So, you know, kind of interesting. So it's gotta be the fact that we just don't use our hands for anything other than texting or typing or writing. And so they're just weak, but that means that's also showing that our whole body is weak. But then to the average person who works out and they think, well, what does this have to do with me, a stronger grip makes all your exercises more effective, not just the pulling ones. Everybody thinks, oh yeah, that makes sense for rows and for pull-ups and for deadlifts. Obviously you want to have a strong grip. You know, it shouldn't be the reason why you can't lift the weight that you can lift should not be your grip. But people don't realize that a strong grip also translates to strong press, strong forearms and strong wrists translates for strong press. And if you don't believe me, watch high lifters who lift ungodly amounts of weights in overhead presses and bench presses and many of them will wear wrist support. They'll actually put braces on the wrist to support their arms so they could press more weight. Why? Because if your wrist can't support the weight, you can't press it. Now these are people bench pressing. Well, even if it can somewhat support it, if there's at all any sort of movement play or breakdown there, you're gonna lose a lot of power and strength.  I can do these presses, but it's like any sort of instability there because you're weak in that grip could make a massive difference. And so there's a massive carryover to every exercise that you do. Like, in fact, I mean, many times I'd be in these long training sessions and almost always what would tap me out is my forums.  And then that was just so pumped and fatigued. It's like you couldn't even grab onto heavy enough weight anymore. Yeah, well, you know, what's interesting is, and you can test this out yourself, you could use wrist straps when doing pulling exercises or you could use wrist bracing devices while you press and you'll probably find that you have better technique and better connection to the weight. That's what can happen naturally. In fact, it's even better naturally when that grip is there.  I've known people who squat even with things on the wrist to support themselves with a heavy squat. So anything that involves the hands, any exercise that involves the hands, if your hands are strong, you're gonna be able to hit the target muscles more effectively. So this makes a very, very big difference with your entire body, not just in the obvious exercises like pull-ups and rows and deadlifts, makes a huge difference. So let's talk about some of the ways that you can improve your grip strength. And a lot of these are gonna have to do with things you shouldn't do, not just things you should do. And the first one is, don't use wrist straps. What's up everybody? Welcome back. Here's the giveaway for today's episode, MAPS Anabolic, the program that started it all. You can get it for free, but you have to do this, okay? You gotta leave a comment in the first 24 hours that we drop this episode. Subscribe to this channel, turn on notifications if we like your comment. We'll notify you in the comment section. You'll get free access to MAPS Anabolic. Also, check this out. We have two bundles right now of workout programs that are 50% off. The first bundle is the skinny guy bundle. This includes MAPS Anabolic, MAPS Aesthetic, the No BS six pack formula, the Intuitive Nutrition Guide, and the Inclusion Training Guide. So all in that bundle, 50% off. The other bundle that's 50% off is the fit mom bundle, which includes MAPS Anywhere, MAPS Anabolic, MAPS Hit, and the Intuitive Nutrition Guide. So they're both 50% off. If you're interested, you wanna click on the link at the top of the description of this video. So click on the link at the top of the description below to get the discount link and then use the code SEPT50. So SEPT50 for the discount. All right, here comes the show. Wrist straps are those device that go around your wrist. Then you wrap around the bar and the theory is, hey, your grip can't hold the weight. So this will help you hold the weight and then you can train your back more effectively. This is a terrible tool. The only people I ever think should use wrist straps are advanced bodybuilders who've already built tremendous amounts of muscle. They're doing so much volume. They're isolating muscles in particular ways, in which case they know how to use these tools in ways that help them. But for 99.9% of people who work out, wrist straps are a detriment.  Yeah, I've been sort of an evangelist for that for a while now. And it's mainly just because I know when I used to actually wear wrist straps and I would do power cleans and you definitely could put up more weight. You just had more stability, more security. And there was no leak of performance that way in terms of gripping the bar and like feeling any fatigue in that direction. But I noticed just grabbing dumbbells that were heavy. I was having a hard time with that then to go and translate into what I could actually lift. So I had to go through a long process and a lot of people don't wanna do this if they've been stuck on wrist straps because it does take a while for you to basically catch that up. Your muscles tend to have a lot more in them in terms of what they can produce. You know, when you have a secure wrist and you have like a secure grip, but putting the work in, grabbing the weights and just holding the weights and then kind of working your way up progressively will make a big difference in terms of then improving all of the lifts. It's so tempting to wanna use it because I mean, you can, like if you've ever tried to really increase your deadlift, normally, at least in my experience, the thing that gives out for most people is actually the grip before like their glutes or hamstrings or their back, you know, like it's normally like they get to a weight where they just can't hang onto the bar and then you do an over under type of deal and or you use straps. And you know, I've definitely been in this camp before I've used straps when I get to super heavy weight deadlift and it makes it a lot easier. Just one less thing you gotta think about too, because with like a movement like that, that's so complex, there's this, you know, oh man, if I don't have to worry about grip, I'm locked in and all I gotta think about is the hinging process. It makes that movement a lot easier. But then for what though, you know, so like I understand if you're in a sport that allows you to use those thrones. Like strongman's competitions might last. Yeah, so like there's some competitions that allow straps and then it's all about how heavy of a weight you can go. Then it's a little less important.  I used them when I was competing. I haven't used them since I competed. It just, there's no point to me. And I don't really care that like right now I'm not able to, and by the way, my limiting factor, I'm deadlifting a lot right now. The limiting factor right now is my grip. You know, once I start getting above, you know, about 350 or so, it's really hard for me to get five reps without an over-undergrip. But I'm sticking to just double over because I don't, there's no reason for me right now. I'm not gonna get any benefit by saying, by other than bragging on the show that, oh, I'm back up to 550 pound deadlift. It's like, who cares? You know what I'm saying? It's not gonna benefit me that much. So I think that's where you have to, you have to understand that if you're somebody who is in the gym and you're just trying to build a great physique or if you're somebody who's just trying to be healthy or lose body fat, it's like, there is not really a place for these, they're gonna do more harm than they are good. They are, by the way, you know, when women are, and this is just for the guys out there, when they ask women what body parts on a man are found most attractive, the one that tends to shock people is hands and forearms. Hands and forearms will stand out. And I think it's because, not necessarily it's a attractive body part, but rather what we said earlier that it represents overall strength. And it's an easy way, I mean, we're fully clothed, so you have a T-shirt on or long-sleeve shirt and a woman instinctively will can tell you're physically strong by your hands and by your forearms. You referenced that all the time. I don't know if I've ever read that before. I know arms is, I didn't know hands, hands. Hands and forearms. I feel like you say that because Doug says you have beautiful soft hands. Yeah, no, they're not. I like this one originally. Yeah, he does say that, thanks Doug. No, but no, I've read it many, many times and look, I bet we're gonna get comments on that now that I've said it, but it's totally true. It's also part of wisdom, right? What do they say to you when you were a kid? Like, if you shake your girlfriend's dad's hand, give them a firm grip. Shake your hand. Yeah, right? Because I think it does. It shows that, right? It demonstrates that. I wanna shake hands. But yeah, wrist straps take away from that and you never allow your grip to catch up. And again, for the vast majority people, 99.9%, your grip has the capacity to lift as much as your heaviest lift, as your body can handle its heaviest lift. In other words, a deadlift. Forget rows, like if you can't hold onto a bar, you row or pull up, like work on your grip. But there are those occasional like deadlifters that are pulling tremendous ridiculous amounts of weight in which case, you know, back and legs and hips, maybe, but 99.9% of people, no, it's just, you gotta let your grip catch up. Wrist wraps won't allow that. Now I use wrist wraps for a long time working out because that's what the bodybuilders used in the magazines. And as a kid, I followed what the bodybuilders did. And I remember someone telling me this and saying, you know, in the real world, if you can't hold onto the weight, you can't lift it. And I remember thinking, oh yeah, you're totally right. This is weird. So I took off the wrist straps and it took me a year for my hands to catch up to my back. I had trained my back with wrist wraps for so long. My hands were so far behind that I had to go way lighter. It took me a year to catch up. Now my hands are there. I can hold on to things that my back can lift, but it'll take a little bit of time. It also, by the way, studies show that connections to muscles change a little bit when you use things like wrist wraps, including presses. So you can actually change recruitment pattern so your body learns how to lift more with wrist wraps, not just because it's holding the weight, but rather because it's used to the recruitment pattern. And you don't necessarily want that in the real world because you don't have wrist wraps with you everywhere. I'm gonna jump around on your list because I think that this just organically flows better here of the point that we were making about heavy singles, doubles, and triples. This was one of the best things that I ever did. I know we've talked before. I know you've done YouTube videos on building forearms, strength, and grip. One of the best things that I noticed and remember, before we all got together, I really didn't do the single, double, triple thing. Like I did low reps way back when I was a kid at like the five, six rep range, but I never dropped below five, like ever. And so I started training singles, doubles, and triples. And one of the things I vividly remember, like noticing, aside from watching my strength go up more in those big lifts that I'd ever seen, was my grip. I noticed my grip strength when I probably, just from just lifting really, really heavy weight one to two to three times. Because you know, I was giving the example earlier of lifting above 350 when I started getting above five reps in that rep range. It's just hard for that long of a period of time to hold on to, but by doing something as tense and as heavy as, you know, 400 pounds one time, pulling up like that, boy, my grip strength shot up really fast. It's because one is training more for strength endurance and one is training for just pure strength. So when I'm doing high, when you're doing, and most people, when they don't train their grip and they're like, oh, it's fine. And then they test it like I need to get it stronger. They may have okay strength endurance because they hold on to the weights quite a bit. But just like building strength in anywhere else in the body that low rep stuff will build like real low, you know, that grinding strength. And that comes from the low rep stuff. So, you know, doing a double with heavy weight builds strength differently than doing, you know, 12 reps with lighter weight. Both of them build strength. One is more strength endurance. One of them is more pure strength. That's what you noticed. You'd never train your grip with like pure strength. And boy, can that increase the overall strength of your grip through the roof. It was dramatic. Like it was, it was a made for, and because I used to, if you go further back, I was a wrist strap guy like you for a really long time. Pretty much used, it was a cool accessory when I was in my twenties, you know, it was like cool to have wrist strap. I looked serious, you know what I'm saying? That was like the idea when I was 20 something years old walking around the gym. So, and I used it for everything, which was a terrible idea. And then got rid of them. And then I remember working my way up on the deadlift. And that was something really quick. And I know of course there's some novelty there, right? I never trained single double triple. So I probably saw an additional benefit, but you're right.  I also included in there, and I know this isn't on our notes, but I would play with the axle bar too, which it was. Oh, thicker grip. Yeah. I thought that was really beneficial too, was incorporating, and same thing, singles, doubles and triples with the axle bar. And then I go back to a regular bar and it felt like I could just squeeze it. God, I haven't done that long time to squeeze it. The singles, doubles, triples, like for me, what it showed too is just like, it really highlights any instability. So like, you can kind of get away with that a bit when you do higher reps. And you can get that sort of a muscular pump that goes with that, but with strength training, pure strength training and that higher reps with a high load, you either can do it or you can't. And it shows you sort of where those weak points are that need to be addressed. And so like with your grip, it's like it's very visibly obvious, you know, where that disconnect is. Yeah. The next one is to use chalk, powder chalk or liquid chalk. So most gyms don't allow powder chalk. So they sell liquid chalk, super cheap. And most gyms are okay with it. You might get the occasional gym that won't use that, let you use that as well, but I've gotten away with it at every gym I've ever worked out at. And chalk helps because you're connected to the weight, right? When your hands are sweaty and a bar is slippery, it changes the connection. You don't have to worry about something. You have to worry about the bar slipping or moving in a particular way. Chalk for all lifts, not just pulling lifts, but pressing lifts as well, curls, laterals, press downs, doesn't matter. When you have a more tight grip on the bar and chalk helps with that, because it gets rid of the slipping, you feel more connected and it also allows you to strengthen and train your grip without having to use an aid like wrist strap. So chalk is a huge, and there's almost no lift I don't use chalk on these days. I'm always using chalk. You just feel more connected. Gym owners love you. Well, the liquid one's not a big deal. The liquid one's not that bad, but yeah. It is, I know, I love getting into chalk too.  You just feel more connected to the weight. Just feel connected and secure. Yeah, even with isolation movements. I mean, even when I'm doing movements that are light, where I'm trying to target and isolate a muscle, when I use chalk, it's like I'm, you know, it's like when you drive a sports car and you feel connected to the road versus floating on top of it. I'm connected to the weight in a different way and I can actually isolate those muscles a little bit better. So chalk is super valuable. I mean, I have to use chalk, especially when I get heavy weight. If you're not using straps, to me, and if you've dead lifted a couple sets, your palms get sweaty, which in the past, that was my excuse for using straps. Oh, my hands are getting, as I get into multiple reps. Everybody just slips. Yeah, and it just rolls right out. And chalk will dry that right up. So having some chalk or liquid chalk, I think is a game changer. The next one, and this one, I remember Justin talking about this and he made a big deal about this, but I also remember reading about this in Powerlifting Magazine. I don't remember the name of the Powerlifting Magazine, but I had subscribed to it when I was a kid. And I remember some of the top benchers on there talking about squeezing the bar. Like rather than letting the bar just sit on your hands, which a lot of people do when they press, to crush the bar with your hands, and increasing the amount of neural drive or force into the bar. So, and this strengthens your grip as well. So when you're doing exercises, almost any exercise, use a firm grip on it. Even if it's something you don't necessarily need to grip on too tight, grip that bar tight, grip the handles tight, and it'll connect you to the weight a little bit better, and it'll continue to train your grip. I used to get a little bit of pushback on that because some clients would think they're using too much energy, like, you know, it's gonna take away a little bit from, they might fatigue a bit more. But in a sense, it's got that irradiation kind of effect where now, all of a sudden, all the rest of the joints feel secure. You're able to actually kind of like really connect and generate more force that way, which then contributes to the overall lift. Well, it's actually really interesting because it's very different than a bodybuilder's mentality would be when they lift. A lot of bodybuilders will break their wrist and open palm. So I had a habit of doing that for a really long time where I would just let the weight rest and I wouldn't grip at all. And I'm just thinking about the chest the entire time. Now, the theory or the logic behind that, why a bodybuilder does that, is all I care about is feeling the chest. You're picturalistic. I don't care if I get stronger and now I can bench press 50 more pounds or whatever like that. I don't care if my grip strength is better or not. I want to feel the chest the entire time and so I actually wanna relax almost the wrist and think that way. So that's the thought process. And I trained that way for a really long time, but ironically, my best bench, when I got to this place where I started really gripping the bar and my forearm, when my deadlift went up, my bench press went up. So I watched my barbell bench press go up when my deadlift went up and a lot of that had to do with just being able to hold on to the bar. And I get the value in taking things out of the equation so you can feel and isolate a muscle. I get that. And there's a role, there's some value there in getting a muscle to be able to activate the way you want so that you can build it. However, the biggest muscle builders aren't those exercises. They're the ones where you're typically moving the most weight. So I would use those with clients to teach them how to feel the muscle, get to the point where they can feel it and squeeze it. And then we can get to the point where we can go heavy, irradiate the whole body and now we're generating a tremendous amount of force and we're building a lot of muscle. So there's value in what bodybuilders say. However, I think the average person or at least with media, it gets communicated like this is how you should train. It's not. It's just another classic example of something that we address on the show all the time which is the nuances. It's not as simple as the bodybuilder has it wrong and the powerlifter has it right. It's that. Different intent going in. That's right. They both have different intents. They both have value to overall training and your pursuit to strength and muscle hypertrophy and longevity. And it's like understanding where each camp is coming from and then how do I apply this to improve my place? And so my biggest takeaway in that being that I've been in the bodybuilder camp but then also cared about getting stronger is that they both had tremendous value for me. I mean, the ability for me to connect to muscles and training that way for so long has obviously benefited me in shaping and sculpting a physique but then boy has learning to generate as much force and power and having forearm strength and fire that CNS has totally compounded my abilities to build more muscle because I understand the strength, the strength importance of grip strength, CNS and all that stuff. Yeah, and squeezing the bar. I mean, you could test this out next time you work out. Do your normal workout and with your heaviest sets, just squeeze the bar, squeeze the bar and see how you feel and the weight actually will move. It'll move up a little faster. You'll actually generate more strength and force. Well, that brings right to the next point which is the practicing the isometrics. I mean, that's what you're basically teaching is the entire body to communicate together before you do a movement like that and squeezing the bar would be a type of an isometric. Yeah, so there's different kinds of strength when it comes to muscle contractions and they all, there's overlap, right? But they can be pretty specific. So you have the ability of a muscle to contract. You have the ability of a muscle to lower or lengthen with tension. So in other words, I can curl a weight or I could slowly lower a weight. Those are both different types of contractions. And then I can just hold the weight which is isometric. Most of the many I should say of the demands on the grip involve isometric strength. Now, we need to have squeezing and crushing grip. We need to have the kind of grip that allows us to lower something with control when we're carrying things, when we're grabbing things, when we're working with things. But usually when we work out, the grip tends to serve and the hand and the wrist, I should say tends to serve as an isometric stabilizer. Most exercises require me to hold and stabilize. So isometric exercises have a lot of carryover and isometrics are holding onto a heavy weight, hanging from a bar, instead of doing a reverse wrist curl, holding away and supporting it in this position so that my wrist gets strong in this position or in this position, right? So the isometrics have a lot of carryover for the rest of your lifts because your lifts tend to require that kind of strength. Like strength and endurance. So yeah, it just carries over well because with grip, you are doing, like say you're doing compound lifts and but you have to hold onto the bar the whole time. Basically, like gripped and glued to it. So you need that endurance to be able to sustain the same amount of force to hold on and grip throughout the duration of the exercise. And this is just a common practice for me is to grab either, I mean, dead lifts are obviously like kind of an example of that, but like holding it the bar an extended amount of time at the top. For me, I like to grab kettle bells and just hold them and I'll literally do it until fatigue for reps. So that's just something I constantly do just to make sure I'm addressing my grip, strength and endurance. Now, how would you guys specifically program these types of isometrics for the average person? So I imagine I'm running one of our programs and I'm consistent with the days and then I also mostly in this episode, I'm like, oh, I really want to focus more on that. Oh, I don't do any isometric type of work for my forums or my grip strength. Where does that belong in your opinion and how frequent is it that I do this? Oh, so that's actually one of the next points is literally at the end of your workout, every workout just add one, you can add one or two sets of grip or forum exercises and they can both be isometrics. So just at the end of your workout when you're done and the reason why you want to typically do it at the end unless grip is really a focus for you, but the reason why you want to do it at the end is you don't want to fatigue your grip before you do other exercises. Before you do your dead lifts in the way. Because of what we said earlier, it's connected to every exercise that you do. Yeah, it's the example that would be like your core, fatiguing your core or your back before you go do squats. Yeah, it just doesn't make any sense for the most part. It'll really hamper the rest of your workout. But when you're done, one or two sets of forearm or grip exercises and they can both be isometrics. So like hanging from a bar would be an example or holding onto heavy dumbbells. And you can do it to fatigue or you can do what I do, which is I tend to stop a short of fatigue and I'll say, okay, you know, oh, 30 seconds is up. I think I do 10 more seconds, but I'll let go. Now, because it's isometric, do you recommend that someone could do this every single workout? So every time I train in the gym. Oh yeah, or you have to be just isometric. You could do, you know, full range of motion. Just one or two sets every workout. In my experience, that's all you need for most people because your grip is already involved in so much of your workout. That adding that extra one or two sets at the end. So if you work out four days a week, you're doing four to eight sets a week with a little extra grip work. But man, does that carry over.  Because contrary to, I guess, popular mythology around grip training, you can over train your grip. A lot of people are like, no, you can't. Yes, you can. You can over train your grip. Believe me, I've done it. No, it tends to, it's a much better approach to be a frequently added low amount of volume type of training with grip training because it's, again, it contributes to everything you're gonna be doing in terms of holding weight. So in order to build strength, obviously you're gonna do it in doses where I'll do the same thing where I'll just add one or two exercises every day at the end of the workout. Or even if I'm just doing my daily rituals of anything, I'm grabbing something and just holding it for a while. Yeah, which brings us to another point. And this one's often neglected, which is to train the wrist extenders, not just the flexors. So when you're talking about the forearm, everybody thinks of the muscles that flex the wrist. Over the top. But there's also the muscles that extend here, right? That pull the wrist back. And you need to have balance on your wrist and your forearm. There's also muscles that bend lateral. You can't just train one and then keep the rest weak because that creates instability and can cause problems and wrist issues. And this is a very neglected part of the body. So wrist extenders.  I like to put in a set of like reverse curls or reversed wrist curls, or even just holding my arm at the end of a bench with the weight for a little bit into fatigue the top of my forearms. And I notice when my wrist extenders are stronger, my grip is so much stronger because of the balance of stability. I mean, I wanna touch more on even the, what you started to lightly talk about, which is very common when you see somebody with a golfers or tennis elbow. Many times it's the extenders that are weak because their flexors are so strong. They pull a lot of weight, deadlifting or they curl really good weight, but they spend no time doing the extenders. This was an issue for me. And it was as simple as that. Like I kept trouble. I remember like working on this a while. This was just a couple of years ago. And I was looking at like all shoulder stuff and wrist mobility. And I'm like, I'm messing with all the things. And I'm like, God, it's still bothering me. And I was heavy deadlifting at that time. And what I realized was like, God, when was the last time that I had really focused on my extenders and they were so weak in comparison. And so when I started doing that, it completely alleviated the elbow pain. So this is a common area that I think people neglect. And a lot of times you see it express itself in the elbow. Yeah. Now by the way, the elbow pain, the reason why you feel the elbow pain is cause these muscles, you know, like the brachioradialis here, I mean, it covers the top of the elbow here on the top and on the bottom part of the elbow. These are wrist flexors. So it's the attachment of these forearm muscles. And people think elbow, they tend to think tricep or bicep. But I mean, eight out of 10 times, it's the forearm and grip muscles that are inflamed and weak and keeping those strong. And this is a very pain on either side of the elbow. Painful. Super common. Super common. And a lot of times it's overworked one side and underworked on the other side. So keeping both kind of like similar to like shin splints. Yes. The tibialis is weak. Yes. And the tibialis is weak. And just by simply working the tibialis, you get rid of these shin splints. I think it's really similar when you see people that are suffering from the elbow pain is they have got one side is overworked or super dominant and the other side is super weak. Yes. And last point here is typically don't train to failure, just like we recommend for most body parts. Now there's some value in failure training if you know how to do it right. But for most people, training to failure is just too much intensity and it results more in this kind of my body wants to heal more than it can adapt. So if you're training, if you're throwing one or two sets of some kind of grip or forearm training at the end of every workout, don't do it to failure. So what does that look like? Well, if I hang from a bar rather than hanging until I fall, I hang until I feel like I have about, you know, seven to 10 seconds left and then I let go. And then that's a set. You'll find that your strength gains will come faster that way versus the, I'm going to train the crap at them to fatigue at the end of every workout. That tends to result in overtraining. I like that one. And I like that's actually such a great one to slowly progressively overload with time. Like, so I actually liked doing hang. Like you talk about at the end of a workout, you do a hang and the first time you do it, you do it till, like you said, till like, oh, I'm almost going to get out. I don't think you fall literally, but it's like, oh, it's getting so pumped. And then you just keep track of your time. And then every time you do that, the next, the every day that you incorporate that, you just try and hang for a few more seconds, a few more. And before you know it, you go from adding five seconds to 10 seconds to 15, then 20, then 30, you're adding. Then before you know it, you're adding 45 seconds to a minute to your hang. You could get nowhere near that just a couple of weeks before it'll get there pretty quick. Absolutely. So let's talk about some of our favorite exercises for grip strength. Farmer walks has to be up there for me. Constantly do those all the time. Yes, heavy farmer walks. I'll do, you know, if I go real heavy, I'll use the trap bar and I've gone up to as heavy as 450 pounds and I'll walk for maybe 20 paces. And man does my grip get strong. And it hurts my hands and yeah, the whole thing, but it toughens everything up to a tremendous degree. So that's gotta be one of my favorites. Yeah, I like to the pinch grip.  And I mean, I do the same thing between pinch grip and then also with just because the kettlebells have kind of a fatter grip to them, holding the heaviest kettlebells I can find for time is another great one for an isometrical. I'm gonna say the reverse curls just because again, I think that's just a neglected area that I think that that's an area that you shouldn't and of course you're directly hitting that right there. So I like that as an exercise. Although the farmer carries, I think we probably might all agree is our favorite. And a lot of why I think that's so amazing is because you're lighting the entire body up and it's rooted in your grip, right? First, because it's hanging on to the weight, but then it's connecting you from your toes all the way up to your neck and shoulders. Dude, you could start a workout with Farmer Walks and it's got a different effect than if you end the workout with Farmer Walks.  Yeah, and then I feel really strong going into all my lifts. And you can reinforce your posture position too with Farmer Walks. So maybe you're not doing quite as much load, but you know, you're really like getting in that retracted, upright position and reinforcing good posture.  It's talking about the Farmer Walks, but for different reasons. I find it a really cool hack when I don't want to work out. Like it- Just do that. Yeah, because it totally, like to your point, turns me all on, then now all of a sudden I want to lift. Like I'm like, oh, I feel like lethargic. Kind of, I'm not in the mood to go train. Sort of work out to you, yeah. So I'm like, you know what? I'm going to go over there, go grab them 100 pound dumbbells or go grab a trap bar and just I'm going to walk, you know, 40, 50 yards real quick back and forth a couple of times and it just turns my whole, now all of a sudden I want to lift. So it's a cool little hack to kind of get me in the mood too to lift. I think it's interesting. Yeah. Another one that I learned, this one's more advanced, but I learned this one from Judo players because I did, you know, I did Judo as a kid, some Jiu-Jitsu and you would grip and use the gi quite a bit. And let me tell you, if you have a weak grip and those sports, you're dead. I don't care how strong the rest of your body is, you're done because Is that a crush grip? Just crush stamina. Like you go with a good Judo or Jiu-Jitsu guy and their hands are three times as strong as their size shows. It's just incredible stamina and strength. But anyway, one thing that they did is they would do, they would use really thick towels like strong stable towels. They'd hang them over a bar and grip the towel and do pull-ups or you put it in a cable and do rows or you would do curls with them. So with a towel, cause it mimicked the gi. But let me tell you, you grab a towel versus a bar, it is totally different on the hands and it works the grip like nothing else. It's more advanced.   Like, can it affect it from that? No, it's totally different than just grabbing a bar. And then there's, we included this one in our OCR program. So we have a program called Maps OCR for people preparing to race in obstacle course racing. And one of the weak links in obstacle course racing, which we would constantly hear from competitors, was their grip. It would just give out, right? And there was one movement that where you take a bucket and you fill it with dry rice, put your hand in the bucket and you open and close your hands in that rice. And this, you know, I did some research to see where did this come from. And by the way, this really works the hands and it works the fingers independently. It's really awesome. It's great for people with wrist and hand pain as well. But you could see old Kung Fu practices would do this. And they would do it with sand, then pebbles, then rocks, in terms of, you know, progressing resistance. You know, I'm glad you brought that up because I know we just did a whole episode on giving away a lot of the information as far as like how you could go about programming this yourself. But that program really was geared towards that. I mean, we looked at like what we saw as one of the biggest- Stamina and grip strength. It's like, it hits both the- So if you're listening right now and you're like, oh, this is a major focus for you. That's why you clicked on this to listen to it. We actually programmed MAPS OCR specifically for that to come up. So if you wanna see how we wrote and all the things we're talking about is pretty much incorporated in that routine. So I think that's a great program to follow if this is something that you're looking to get better at. Look, if you like our information, head over to mindpumpfree.com and check out our guides. We have guides that can help you with almost any health or fitness goal. You can also find all of us on social media. So Justin is on Instagram at Mind Pump. Justin, Adam is on Instagram at Mind Pump, Adam. And you can find me on Twitter at Mind Pump South. The rules that apply to somebody who is going from a man who's going from 20% body fat to 15%. The rules that apply to that person are the same as the rules that go from 10% to 5%. The difference is everything that we talked about.


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Hello everyone, welcome back to another AI tutorial.  Again, this year, not perfect. So the results are never 100% correct. Keep that in the back of your mind. Okay, there's three free tools to do it. Let's go in order. The first thing I've done, I've gone ahead and asked chat GPT because this is the flavor of the day and I asked them to write a 500-word essay on Hamlet. So here it is. I'm going to copy it. So you're going to see here that this is 100% chat GPT AI created. The first tool, Hugging Face is the group that made it. It's Hugging Face. Yeah, it's a weird name. But don't worry about it. I'm going to leave a link to the description below so it's going to be in the description. So part of me. So here we go. I'm just copying and pasting it in and you'll see here that it's made a prediction and the chances are it's 0.03% real and 99.97% chance it's fake. So it has detected it. Again, though, there are lots of false positives with these tools so keep that in the back of your mind. Okay. The next tool is GPT-0. All right. This was created by a fella named Edward Tian at Princeton, I believe and here we go. He's gone ahead and created this. I'm going to Command-V, copy, paste it in there and then you can also notice here you can upload a file, although in this case I'm not going to. I'm just copying it in and then I'm going to hit Get Results. Here we go. Your text is likely to be written entirely by AI. It's given us a definitive answer, very similar to the one at Hugging Face. GPT-0 has done it as well and it also gives you a little more, a perplexity score and a burst in a score. So you want to kind of keep it random apparently when people write instead of AI, people write with different size sentences and lengths and things like that where AI is kind of uniform. So keep that in the back of your mind. So that's the second tool and here is the third and final tool. It's called AI Text Classifier and if you look at the URL here, you'll notice that it's made by OpenAI. OpenAI is the same group that created Chat GPT as you see here.  So we're kind of in the twilight zone here, but whatever. Let's see what we get here. I'm going to Command V that sentence or that paragraph in here or a couple paragraphs actually. So and then I'm going to hit Submit and this is the third and final free tool and then this one is not as good as the other ones at the moment and it says the classifier considers the text to possibly be AI generated. So you can go through the methodology or how they come up with that, but basically this new tech, this new tool isn't quite as good, but those are your three tools that you can use to detect plagiarism and they're free. Thanks for watching.