You're listening to Barbell Logic brought to you by Barbell Logic Online Coaching where each week we take a systematic walk through strength training and the refining power of voluntary hardship. Welcome to the Barbell Logic podcast. I'm Scott Hamburg and there's Matt Reynolds and we've got the team from A7 here. Yes. Yeah from A7 and international and we were we were just talking before we turned the mics on that Jason had ordered a Tesla this Tesla El Camino and and I was like, so why was compelling and truck about that thing for you? Why did you order that? I just think it's got such an innovative design And I think that the way that I try to look at the world is when people are really trying to push Something new that's great. It's always going to be Offset, I guess by the community and what they're thinking, but that's just the I don't know I guess the simple answer is I was really moved by the way that the design was shaped and the innovation and that It's a change to the truck industry. I Like it. I like it too. In the meanwhile about a Ford F-250 for about a third of the price Yeah, Scott just bought a bought a farm actually do those things those trucks start at 39. Yeah, it's not too bad You know, I was looking at that and being from the background. I'm from I was like Oh, he's got all these flat panels welded together because it's like One-tenth of the cost of actually like pounding out a contoured panel, you know stamping them out Interesting So I wanted to have you guys on the show you guys have been friends of the show for a while And and I think most of our listeners know we we're real choosy about who we Who we let advertise on the show We we don't let new Pete new companies advertise on the show that we aren't already Fans of and so I was talking to you guys before we started recording that I've been using your a seven-year bar grip shirts for I think like five years. How long you guys been making the bar grip shirts? Yeah, so we started back in This would have been right around the five-year mark. So it would have been December December, yeah, just well December 2014 is when we actually started a seven and then we started launching products around the August of 2015, okay. Yeah. Yep. The first a seven product. I saw was that shirt you had Reynolds and it had to be Right around that time close to five four and a half years ago. Yeah, I got lucky.  I was like wait a minute Here's a t-shirt with a rubber on the back. This is awesome Let's try let's get this and of course, you know, and and the price has always been pretty good like the price actually is Really not much more than just a normal t-shirt. It's surprising Yeah, like it's actually too low. Should we talk Scott? Should we start talking them into raising their prices? It's eight to ten dollars too cheap. Is that is that bar grip stuff on the back of that shirt? Is that screen printed on there? So we've experimented with so many different ways of doing this to the point that we actually set up our own factory In Pakistan that's American owned that handles all of our production one of our friends from California Actually has been out there for the last two years running it So to kind of break down the process. It is a screen printed process But it's kind of like 12 different membranes that we're kind of mixing together in a layering process That yeah, it's really kind of complicated to explain it all but all that to say there's different variants of heat and chemical applications that allow for the curing of it to Reachieve that optimal result which we're kind of going for that tack feel Similar to those little toys that you used to get from the quarter machine as a kid that you know It'd stick to everything essentially. Yeah, you know the thing that I still have that original shirt by the way Scott now I've got now I've got a bunch more shirts and I tend to wear those other ones but but even the shirt that I have that's four and a half years old that you know, that's been full of my my Matt Reynolds bacon grease Bax back sweat and has been washed hundreds of times and for a long time like when you buy a new shirt And you're sort of proud of it.  I've just washed and dried it an actual dryer It's still pretty tacky four and a half years later Now it's not as tacky as the brand new ones, but it it is held up surprisingly well For me wearing it and having you know Big neural barbells on my back for the last for the last four and a half years So so for for people that don't know you make a shirt That you call the bar grip shirt and you make a lot of stuff now over the last couple years You've really you've expanded beyond the bar grip shirt But the bar grip shirt is the thing that people will know a seven buy and it's really just it's a shirt That has that's got this sort of screen print printed rubberized material on the back of it The the t-shirt itself is just a well made is that it's like a cotton polyblender is a cotton shirt What is like us you get the right amount of stretch with It's a kind of shirt you would wear anyway if it wasn't covered in rubber on the back out to the coffee shop But but this is got this has got this rubberized Design on the back and you guys have all sorts of different designs you have you also have this point You've got t-shirts. You've got tanks. You've got women's crops You've got all kinds of both male and female style shirts, but it just really helps the bar Stick to your back on the squats and then I really like it on bench press Especially for clients for my clients who train at at what I would call like a global box gym that have very That have like slick bench presses. So if you're if you're benching and they've got that like that real slick hard Vinyl it's not like a good rubberized Vinyl like you we're talking about the bench itself with the crampy Yeah, when the bench itself is slick and you're gonna slide down it and you put on a normal shirt And you just whoop and you slide down that bench a bar grip shirt fixes that for you And we've seen people doing all kinds of crazy stuff you know they'll bring in yoga mats and try to and try to put yoga mats on their bench presses and and wrap them with like Bands and so you just get a bar grip shirt and put a bar grip shirt on and they don't need any of that stuff And you can lay down on a bench and stick to the bench And so I I love your shirts that that's I've been a huge fan for years Yeah, when we actually came up with the idea for bar grip, you know I was I was doing a Lion MacDonald program that had me it called for me to do like 20 reps of squats and everything like that and This this program just was beating me to death and I was at a gym in Atlanta Which is incredibly incredibly warm in July, which is when this was or I'm sorry in June when this was and I Was on my third set with these 20 reps and the t-shirt and the chalk mixed was more like pudding Then helping me with anything and I actually had the bar roll down my back doing low bar squats and it tore my anconia So oh wow. Yeah, so for about three months. I couldn't even straighten my arm I was in a sling and everything and I looked at it kind of as a blessing Which is how I try to look at things when they hurt me is how can I overcome and how can I Become a little bit better through this and that's really where the idea of bar grip took off And by the time that we got home that day I turned to Tatiana said I have something that I really think and help our community And that's really where we've always tried to take our approach as we try to look at the community Understand what's going on in the community and opportunities that we can really Help the community and we try to look at it more from that side Then kind of a business model if that makes sense because we know they're helping people We're doing the right thing and it all kind of carried through so you had started a seven even before the bar grip idea came out It was a seven already. It was just a yeah fitness clothing brand before bar grip even was when a seven started actually it was really interesting The idea of a seven the name I'll start there is actually the name of a band that I was part of in high school So we took the name a seven what's what kind of music. Oh rock all the way man Just wide genre of rock Okay, but uh, yeah a seven stands for approaching seven and seven is generally looked at as kind of the perfect or the complete number So with that said it's always approaching perfection approaching the police in the idea of always bettering yourself and the character there in And when we started the idea of a seven It originally was called a seven fitness health and nutrition. So a little bit more of a mouthful. Yeah, definitely I used to work in a incorporate I used to manage a high-rise kind of minions and I went to sit down with my boss one day and she turned to me and she She said why are you doing this? And at first? I thought it was dismissive like I'm not doing a good job but she was basically encouraging me to explore more in my world and try to challenge myself more and Fortunate for her. I just got done pulling a deadlift PR that day So the follow-up question she had was if you could be doing anything with your with your life but you couldn't be sitting around watching Netflix all day, what would you be doing and why aren't you doing it now and It was the first time somebody really believed in my power like that and the next day We started recording videos for YouTube for a seven and started a YouTube channel and we saw really good growth with that and initially and then through that process of just you know trying to grow a community of like-minded individuals that really wanted to structure themselves to become better I Had this magnificent injury happen to me and it really just offset the whole flow that you guys kind of see and focus now Through our social media and and you know everything that we're doing and trying to connect with people if that makes sense Yeah, so what was the first product then if it wasn't that bar? Yeah, that's what it is. So we did make some t-shirts before we had bar grip, but they were really just Shirts that I really wanted to wear if that makes sense I thought the design was really cool We put them together on a on a t-shirt gave them out to the people that were supporting us and that we're really Living the never stop the progress and demand greatness lifestyle That we've always pushed for and we just gave them out and from there You know when we've made our first prototype of bar grip We handed out a couple shirts to people At the gym and it was just crazy because I thought that this idea of bar grip was just going to be a silly shirt That may be myself and a couple loved ones or people that that that I deal with on the day to day We're gonna want to wear and as soon as we saw the first person You know hit hit over a 500 pound squad in it and say wow I actually felt the difference it it just told us that we were on to something right and we knew that We just need to make the product better and connect with more customers to try to advance them in there They're training anything we can help them with it's awesome I have a I have my old guys by those because It's not really necessarily a performance thing although that's there But they get these sores in their backs they get these rashes in their backs They just won't heal up these guys are 60 70 years old sometimes really and that shirt protects them It's a piece of safety gear for a lot of my guys. It's a it's a big deal So Christmas is coming. What do these people that are listening to this show need to do? Yeah, so we we actually just got done with their our black Friday sale But we with that sale we actually launched some really cool amazing new products That really help with the innovation effect that we're always on to one of the biggest products that we launched That we've actually been in prototyping and designing for about the last 14 16 months is what we call our you bag and This is a bag that we designed specifically for Lifters people who are you know having to carry around their belt their knee sleeves their shoes As well as you know take their stuff that they need for work with them like their laptop and things like this And we've really designed a bag from the complete ground up where it started with sketches And then we did a prototype and we didn't like this and we liked that and all that to say we've we finalized it We launched into the community It's a really great bag that has Some key features of it are like 500 dinier nylon. So this is really really strong Supportive exterior in it. It has a triple stitch reinforcement. It has expansion pack to it So even when your bags at its max capacity need a little bit extra room And it's a three inch expansion zipper in it to give you some more room in the core of the duffel But I think the biggest reason that people are gravitating to this bag outside of the high quality that I kind of mentioned Even where we used metal ykk zippers is we've we've come up with a really great System for the belt to loop both vertically as well as horizontally which in theory you can even take two belts with you So if you use a different belt for squats compared to deadlifts like I know a lot of lifters prefer to do They can go ahead and fit both of these belts in the bag and still have full access to their bag With our vertical drop through for the belt You can actually still open the clamshell layout of the bag You can still open up the back of the bag where we actually have a separate sleeve From the bag designed for your laptop to slide in as well as a tablet And these all hold up to the the current size including the 16 inch New Apple computer that just came out. So we've really tried to put our attention to detail on this We've lined it with ripstop nylon. So if you do get a little scratch in it It's not going to destroy and unravel the whole bag So all that to say that's probably the the biggest item that we've launched for this black Friday that we've been the most excited About we've also launched a whole bunch of a really cool new designs for shirts Really just tried to provide with the customers have always given it for their feedback I'm looking at this bag now people that have listened to the podcast now. I'm a huge fan of ebags I actually the bag that I take to the gym now is a is an ebag mother-load But this bag looks badass dude and the problem with Bags for I travel all the time is that when you try to put a belt in a bag You try to carry it on especially if it's got a lever on it You're guaranteed to have a TSA agent put a rubber glove on and do a body cavity search It's amazing and so I love the fact that you've got the option to sort of have the buckle Exposed outside the bag so that they can see exactly what it is for those of you that travel I'm gonna have to give me one of these bags. It actually looks it was Who I like that they said it on they said it on camera send me a bag there we go And I'll do a review. So no these I'm a I'm a huge bag nerd So I I have I bet I've got 12 backpacks and almost all of them are from ebags I'm a I'm an ebags guy I've got all different sizes because I try you know all travel for a two-day trip or a four-day trip or a Seven-day trip or whatever and I actually just I just joined a gym for the first time in like 20 years as I've owned Gems and have a nice home gym and so I was like actually for the first time in a long time I had to like pack a gym bag to take to a the actual gym instead of just have all my stuff in my Home gym that I have now and I was thinking like this this is this bag that I have is pretty good for like bringing clothes And and laptops and stuff, but it's not great for like Olympic weightlifting shoes and belts and so This bet yeah, so it's called the you bag at a seven by the way your website is a seven co Right, and you guys are really like international.  I want to make sure I get this right But you are all over the place. Yeah, definitely. We actually just signed I think our ninth distribution zone so in the coming the coming launch will actually have Russia joining up for the next launch and then we have we just signed a contract with mainland China a couple days ago So while China mainland China take off as well We've got a couple other points to try to help a small group of people you got to meet the needs Yeah, a lot of people we got to meet and we've got a couple other talks to try to help get the gear to the lifters quicker You know because I know that's probably the biggest hurdle when we're looking at power lifting It's just trying to make sure you have it available. You know, yeah, I was gonna ask so What is the typical turnaround time? So, you know, most of our we certainly have some international lifters Especially Western Europe Australia some groups like that, but most of our listeners are gonna be are gonna be us people What typical turnaround is my experience has been pretty fast. Are you guys still in you know going into Christmas? How late can you order? You were told me before we turn on the recording You actually have several of your employees right now like in the warehouse like Stuff from things in boxes and send them out What is you have sort of an end date like if they get an order in by December 15th or something that you can You'll have it there by Christmas. Do you guys have you guys set it all depend on really which zone they're in? So, you know, since in the US we still ship internationally and everything sure if they're outside of the states and everything It's gonna be a little bit trickier to kind of get here But I always just tell people, you know play it safe try to plan 10 days before the holiday We actually shut down our website right before when we do the cut-off and everything So you'll probably say shut down around that time on for at least the domestic orders So we really try to help customers out throughout that whole process So I don't I don't really have an exact answer, but we will ship them out to give you an idea We had the whole team there until around six o'clock in the morning on Six o'clock Saturday morning from finishing our order So we are all very dedicated We we try not to look at the package as if it's just another package going out Every customer gets a handwritten note Every customer gets a little candy in their bag when we're shipping domestically and they don't get interfered by customs And we really just try to go the extra mile for the customers to make sure that we're treating it like it's going to our mother or our father Or our best friend and it's not just a package that's going out the door uncared for You guys know have you ever heard of? Happy Van Winkle whiskey. Yeah so so You guys are actually really similar to like the happy Van Winkle of fitness Right out and what I mean by that is like it's very high quality. It's very high quality It's low in supply and high in demand and and you do a great job of actually even playing to that Like you guys will shut your website down like nope can't buy our stuff right now and Everybody's like when when's it when's the launch coming? When's it come and then you you're able to use that and you know Pappy's the same way so they're like hey, man We don't have very many every year and it's coming out and demand is incredibly high and supply is pretty low As a matter of fact if there's if there's any complaint about your business It's that there are lots of times when like damn and I wanted that shirt and it's sold out so fast I didn't get it, you know and so but that's that means you're doing it right you've you've You've created a tremendous amount of demand for the product and it's because the product is great, right? We are looking at a future partnership with a barbologic having a barbologic a7 bar grip shirt Personalized with with the barbologic logo on the back And so keep your eyes open for that in the future But until that thing is out and I don't even know if I'm gonna offer that to the public I'll be honest with you. I'm probably just I might just offer it to the clients. Well, here's what I'll tell you I'm gonna offer it to the clients and the staff first And if it sells out from the clients and the staff then it's never going on the website So, you know, we want to constantly again.   It fits correctly So we love your products man. You guys have done a great job Jason and Tatiana Thanks for coming on the show and telling everybody about your business and a little bit of your story. Thanks so much Thank you guys. You really appreciate it. Absolutely Let's answer some questions. What do you say Anna? Who is a female listener 24? She is 33 years old Perfect five foot seven one forty five Sounds great. Not too bad. She says I've only been able to pull two hundred and twenty for a double for over a month At this point and I'm wondering what I should do differently to be able to hit that number My goal is a five rep max and then be able to complete continue Upping the intensity And she she doesn't give us any information here about About her training or training but I think we could guess like if we had a lady like her that was stalled pulling a double there What would we have to do? I? Got theories She probably needs to pull more Yeah, or frequency more volume. She I would guess I would guess that she's probably just pulling twice a week It doesn't say that But I'd have her pull three times a week and do a heavy light medium kind of thing I might have her on a four-day split, but I'd still have her pull three times a week Right or well or if you ever on a four-day split You also could have so much volume on that second piece that it's it would be the same amount of volume as if you did Heavy light media so three times a week right so the total amount of like kind of tonnage and volume would be the So what you're what under your plan? It would be like pull your big heavy double Then squat and then do two and then well and then two back offs probably and then another day of like five sets of five on Dead list five sets five on deadlifts Five sets of four whatever, but that's probably what she needs. I wouldn't have her do five sets of five Well, I'm just saying a vault like a volume type. Hey, I like six doubles seven doubles eight doubles for those ladies I like six sets of three dude. I've been doing six sets of three.  That's the answer. Yep I'll run somebody at six sets of three as long as I can and then I'll drop the third rep and go to six doubles But I don't start with six doubles, right? I start with like the triples Cuz we're not that heavy yet, and then when they start getting real heavy. I just pull that third rep So yeah, you're just gonna have to pull more you're gonna have to pull more The intensity guys who always say to increase intensity say you got a pull more It's actually true at some point you can't keep putting weight on the bar until you do some more work Just gotta do you more? I'm sorry Sorry, and so of course your volume days are gonna be lighter, of course dudes I Would have their volume work maybe 70 to 80 percent of their five rep Sure, but she's a higher than that females and older people will be probably more like in that 85 90% area That's what I was gonna say 98 to 90. Yeah, good luck. You'll be fine. Just keep working and stay with it Don't get frustrated. It will come Francisco says When we talk about programming He gets so confused. That means we're not doing a good job. Sorry man And he says what books do you recommend for a novice? to read about programming Cuz they want to understand the theory and the notes nuts and bolts of the programming There isn't one sorry man I You know the theory and project programming is pretty good chapter two of practical programming is golden So good. Yep. I agree chapter three ain't bad either No, it's I the beginning the theory that's laid out there is pretty is pretty solid How to apply that theory and then to be able to take that theory to the next level to say well This is why we make minimum effective dose changes Why do we do three sets of five in the beginning for linear progression? Why linear progression or why is linear progression linear with intensity increases as opposed to a volume increase or something like All those are questions that should be answered and aren't necessarily answered We need to be answered in a future minimum effective dose book written by Scott Andrew says hey guys love your show you talked about two groups No, she says you talk a lot about two groups the underweight 18 year old kid You should do go mad and the 40 plus age man looking to get healthy. He says what amount of food is necessary for a 30 year old? Right, I don't know overweight or underweight or the right weight. No, he doesn't say that even say For just a 30 year. He says I don't feel like I need as much as the young kid But I don't fit in the older category. You probably actually do fit in the older category or at least closer to it Then you suspect always 30 He's 30 don't run a stream shed. He's fine 30 years old man. You're listen at 30. You're closer to the young man than you are the old man Yeah, now for a few more years and then it falls off the cliff and then you're not I Have no dietician or nutritionist, but I would say you may be overthinking it make sure you get 200 grams of protein every day and Put a tape around your navel Once a week and as long as the weight is going up on the barbell and the tape is not You're not having to let out more tape Then I would say your your diet is just fine if the weight on the barbell stalls and the tape You're not letting out tape eat more if the weight on the barbell is going up But you're letting out the tape you can probably trim back a little bit There is an iterative iterative process you have to go through we got to figure it out And we figure it out by looking at the scale looking at the weight on the barbell and looking at how big around You'll belly is You'll figure it out There you go Lucas says great show guys always enjoy listening in a few weeks. I'm having a vasectomy. No All right next pocket next one. Wait, but wait, what if the but is the next sentence I already have a Welcome their fourth child in and the doctor said For three total weeks he said how much of a strength decrease can I expect after coming back from a three-week break? Any other lifting tips specific to me and coming back from a vasectomy? Hey, listen I've got some lifting tips for people coming back from vasectomy Don't do a darn thing for three like I know so many guys that like oh, it's a I'm in I'm in day 15 I feel pretty good and they mow the yard and then they have really bad swelling Like you really need to need to lay on your back And then yeah, and then your thighs turn Under your knees doctors orders for sure as far as how much of a strength decrease I don't know you probably back off 15% and run back up Yeah, that's what I was gonna say 15% come back a little lower volume hit that one set of five And the two sets of five and three sets of five and you're off and run You'll be back where you were in like two weeks about you'll be fine six or seven Your strength won't be 15% we're just gonna back you off that much so you don't get really sore You'll be just fine. Yeah, right doctor's orders, man Yeah, a lot of times those guys are way too conservative, but on the vasectomy thing the swelling Can cause real problems. Yeah, we've had several clients that are it's been an issue and I don't like pictures I don't like getting having to get those you don't I've had some pictures over the last few years or some of my Clients like a cat brain goes bad It's not really what I want to see That's oh good Josh sends this one here He says you guys have revolutionized the programming world through this podcast by expanding the conversation Around programming and convincing many people to start lifting with intention. What thank you. He says What are the what are the programming differences between the traditional versus the four-day split Texas method? Specifically, how does the four-day split makeup for not having a Wednesday light day? We've talked about this before when you move from a three-day full-body program To a four-day split you are pulling some of the stress off of the squat and the deadlift And you are applying it to the upper body to the bench press and the press, right? So rather than squatting that deadlifting three times a week or six times total between the two You're now going to four and rather than benching and pressing only 1.5 times each or three times total you're going to four Right, so now it's four and four so it's it's even yep That's it. So what you're doing and you need to do that because at some point In our experience with the vast majority of people, although not everyone but with the vast majority of people At some point it's too stressful to squat and deadlift three times a week And it's not stressful enough to bench and press only 1.5 times per week And so when you get to that point the most natural thing to do is to take away a squat and a deadlift and add A bench and a press and then low and behold later on you do need to squat three times a week again Yeah, and then they're right and then you'll go back. That's exactly right then at some point You'll actually go back to three times a week, you know, we have we have debated Offline a whole lot more than online about what is the utility of the light day squat in the Texas method as written We have we've and man, I'm telling you I just I'm not sure what the utility of the darn thing is Maybe it's practice. Maybe it is some training stress I don't really know but one of your specific questions is how do you make up for not having the Wednesday light day? And I think for the person who is actually a new intermediate I Don't think not having a white light day needs to be made up for Right. That's my stand. I just don't think you need it by that point. Sure. I just moved a guy I got a guy that's you agree with that. Do you think it's a waste of time? I don't think it's a waste of time all the time So I was just about to say like I've got a guy right now who? doctor from Northwest Arkansas He's in his late 50s six foot tall about 220 pound guy is In good shape looks fitnessy looks lean looks relatively muscular.  GP general practitioner in Northwest Arkansas, and I've been coaching him and he is I do literally Today is his very first light squat day What do you want to guess what he squatted on Monday? Well, you've been talking this gentleman up.   Isn't that ridiculous?  I hope he doesn't but Yeah, so so I like a light day for him right now Because I think he still needs to practice on the squat the guys like actually he's gotten strong like I've had him for About two months now so about two months in and I'm looking to see what our first day Yeah, it's actually October October 30th was my very first was his very first workout So October 30th and now here it is it's December 4th today So it's almost been almost exactly two months. He came to the barbell prescription seminar with sully that to meet him in person And and because he's relatively close. So yeah, so I like the light squat day with this guy because he's only squatted for like eight weeks He's still not an intermediate though. That's the difference between your gentleman. No, it's not He's not he's really not an intermediate and so I'll probably if just for practical purposes here for our listeners He's probably gonna do another Four to six weeks of this sort of heavy light heavy That's my guess. I mean he he's the three sets of five at 395 was not an absolute grinder I was just like, ah, the guy's pushing 60. Let's just not he's gonna squat 415 is not grinding the powder for his last day or swap for yeah for 415 420 for three sets of five Here in a few weeks and then we'll and then we'll switch into a four-day split What's his body weight and that's what I would do it has he been gaining weight? You know, I need to ask him. Um, I don't I mean he he I bet he isn't I bet he's just like getting more and more jacked and just like yeah, you're looking just turning He just like granite He's probably gained a little bit, but he doesn't look any he definitely doesn't look any fatter That's remarkable, but my guess is he's he's got a little more Density so yeah, the lord has mysterious ways matt reynolds. I know right I know that's people are going to be like what the 60 year old guy's squatting three sets of five Anna, you're not 60. I know you're not quite 60. You're close to 60 though.  I don't know I don't know what she weighs. She's 5a.  How old is she 32? Okay, so yeah, she's I mean she's still young. Yeah But yeah, people people I think people overthink the light the light day too much, right? Yeah, right in the beginning you're putting the light day in there because I think it's for practice And I think that they're not ready to they don't want to train four days a week. Sometimes it's just that right? It's three days a week. So it's three days a week and That light day works better than than a like a four-day split over three days a week. I don't like that as much I've got another question here Okay, yeah, I'm not even going to give the guys first name Okay, Matt and Scott. Thank you for the podcast all of it. I've listened to every episode from the beginning It says I've been following the method for a while and I'm having trouble programming for myself as an early intermediate I am 33 years old 5 foot 9 to 30 Life stress is very high as a baseline as I am a police officer in a large city I have a three-year-old and I'm taking seminary classes and serve at my local church congregation outside of work I also am diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome I don't even know what that last thing is, but okay You're depressed dude. You don't have chronic fatigue. You're depressed I'll just go ahead and just diagnose it right now Right. I mean chronic fatigue.  Fibromyalgia fibromyalgia. Yeah, I I think I have known people that have gotten that diagnosis and I think universally those people are depressed Yeah and giving them that diagnosis Is not helpful to them because if they actually put if they pinned the tail on the donkey and said, hey, man This is actually, you know clinical depression Well, now you've got something you can work on if it's just chronic fatigue You're just like, well, I'm just going to be tired for the rest of my days. I'm chronically fatigued Yeah, I've No, we're not doctors and we're not Psychiatrist and I'm not and I've never had I've never had long term Systemic fatigue or systemic depression.   You're tired all the time. It's a super common Trait characteristic of of depression and that's that's our experience again. We're not we're not doctors But you're you're probably onto something there. Yeah, I'm certainly I certainly of course I could possibly be wrong and I'm not trying to do so on you here, man Yeah, consider that maybe it could be depression And maybe go to someone who specializes in that and see if they see what they think Because I think it would be very useful to you If you could if you if you do have depression if you could move away from that diagnosis and just accept that it's depression now now You know, you would have uh I hate this term. I'll say to me a path forward Yeah, so I've never And I'm sure somebody's we're going to write in and get hate mail on this But like one of my things with this sort of chronic fatigue or like a fibromyalgia type thing Like I I don't I don't think it's um, we were talking earlier about like authenticity I think people really believe they have it. Right. I think they believe they really feel something wrong And they really and they really feel fatigue like so it's not that I think that it's all Um, you know, I don't know how much of a psychosomatic, but it's it's they feel something physically There is a physical feeling that they get but the interesting thing about it is is if you think about um Like like professional athletes Sometimes professional athletes get cancer and die. Mm-hmm Uh, but but olympic athletes professional athletes never get fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome and stop You know what I mean? Like now that's weird. Have you thought about that? Like some like some like all of the other diseases that are out there like like cancer Right and we don't disease Lou Gehr like Parkinson's whatever like Athletes get that all the time As a matter of fact, they get it as often as the rest of the population does And yet Never do you hear of usain Bolt? Listen, he just can't perform this year in the olympics because he's got that fibromyalgia He's got a steam bar virus or you're right or as the as the uh, is that where somebody kills you? No, it's that yeah, it's when uh, attorney general bar died you the You know that uh Fibromyalgia, yeah, I think most of those people have Profound trauma histories And that might be true. Yeah, I I I see a lot of people who have fallen into the I recognize that I cannot contribute to society I have uh lingering pain and I'm now on opiates for the rest of my life because I have fibromyalgia Like and so I said at home and watched like soap operas all day at netflix and and I don't even know how many of and they're just depressed I don't know how many of those people are guaranteed to have trauma sometimes I just think it's a Do you think you hit a point in life sometimes at 40 years old or whatever it is where you're just like?  You're goddamn right. Everything hurts.    I get thank you guys for asking say still in hospice He's actually done a little bit better the last few months never thought he'd make it through the through this year He was wired. He was kind of a melancholy depressive sort of guy and I can remember I'm the oldest and so So he you know, he had to learn a lot of parenting with me Then then he was able to probably refine some of that for my younger brother and sister And I can remember when we would get in some big fights when I was like 14 15 years old Not like physical fights, but just big like massive arguments And my dad was always a super wonderful guy. I was always just really nice and and was emotive And after you know an hour or so after a fight or 45 minutes at a fight He would come in my room and he would make sure he's like, hey, do Are you okay, you know, do you know that I love you and um and he would Like allude to now you're not gonna do anything. You're not gonna hurt yourself or anything, right? And like dad You better not sleep old man Yeah, they was that I mean really that that was when I was I was like, bro I don't have any problem with me.  I'm not gonna kill me So I say all that I make this funny But like I wouldn't be very careful because I know this is a real serious topic and I I cannot Sympathize with it. It's that thought is never coming to my head. I like me.  Uh, he says he's having he's having programming Um difficulties and he's trying to you know and trying to make uh progress and then he asked um, he asked Is it possible? Um That it might be testosterone as well. I mean, I think it could be all those things I think the chronic fatigue syndrome the diagnosis. I think it's that can be a little catch-all If I were you I wouldn't be satisfied leaving my diagnosis there I think go go look into the hormones go look into the the possibility of depression. What do you have to lose? Right. It's cheap. What do you have to lose?   Let's go dig into a few of those things go to a good urologist Go to a mental health professional go check it out man. I hope you uh, I hope everything turns around and and uh start feeling better brother really I do Yeah, by the way, if you're listening to this like we'd love to Like go get some of that stuff checked out and let us know. Yeah, right. We'll we'll protect your privacy there Thank you for thank you for being honest and vulnerable about it. So hopefully this didn't piss off that we That we Steer do this direction. So but you probably need to go get some help and it might need to be and it might be physiological might look like you literally might just have a Have a hormone issue. You might have a chemical balance. You don't your testosterone's nine like oh, sure That's right. That's right. That'd be the best answer ever perfect in three weeks. You'll be awesome. That's true. Yeah. Oh, shoot Yeah, yeah, get some help brother and until then like make training fun That's what I that's what I would say with a guy like this Like hey, don't put too much pressure on yourself when you feel this way To go out and hit prs all the time like like still train.  Just go have fun like if it's there for the taking Take a pr if it's not there Then just go hit some reps and go have fun because you'll feel better at the end But if you put this pressure on yourself that all you have to do is you have to chase numbers all the time That gets old nobody does that all the time, right? Like even super competitive lifters Don't chase numbers 12 months out of the year. Matt. I'm only going to chase them once a year now I'm going to run up once a year Yeah, yeah, it's just too much. It's too heavy and I'm not sure how much Good I do If I chase it 12 months a year sure Right, so you right so you spend so you spend You know eight months out of the year just like being real healthy Moving and join training. Yeah, don't have to push real hard and then you guys are Yeah, you're still strong moving some decent weight, you know, I pulled 480 yesterday pretty fast Nice and Then did some back offs, but you know, I didn't do five. I didn't do that five fives at 430, you know You know Yeah, so yeah be easy on yourself, man. Go check it out Uh There's another question and answer episode. We got it all in there on that one, didn't we? Yeah, go check out our friends at a seven dot co And uh, go get a go get one of those shirts, uh for uh somebody in your life that uh, your training partner, maybe It's a good Christmas shirt. I hope to get that backpack too. I look that backpack looks awesome. You've got enough backpacks, Matt I know I have a problem with backpacks. I apologize. You're like a bag lady What if I sold some of the backpacks I currently have and just replace and replaced it with this one? I prove of that or I could just give them. I like I think my backpacks will make good gifts There's another question answer episode Please send in your questions to questions at barbell hyphen logic.com. Hey, and if we've answered one of your questions in the past Uh, and you followed up on On uh, your problem with our advice. Let us know how that went like even if we were 100 wrong Uh, or whatever. Let us know. I'd love to I'd love to get some more field reports from you guys We'll uh, we'll read some of those on on air Thank you guys for listening


Here's today's style brief, Winter Business Casual Preppy Festive. Let's get dressed. For pants, I'm going with these Olive Wide Whale Quateroys. They're from Polo Ralph Lauren and have side adjusters rather than belt loops. Pairing those with a subtly striped button down from our collection with Michael Andrews Bespoke. Now to continue the preppy vibe for shoes, the Crockett & Jones Harvard Penny Loafers. Next, I'm going to layer this J-Press Fair Isle Sleeveless Cartigan on my wrist today. I've got the JLC Reverso on a brown strap. For fragrance, I'm going with Tom Ford for Men. And then when I'm ready to step outside into the cold winter air, I'm going to bundle up with this Navy Duffel Coat from Gloverall and a felt hat from Lock Hatters.


Welcome to church of the chair where sometimes a great book is just a flash in the pan. I'm your host E and today my memory can catch these hands. This is a discussion video. You know how we do these discussion videos by now. I ask you guys a question and you fill up the comments with your answers. Today I'm talking about 5 books. I didn't mean to pick 5 like a top 5 friday or something. It just happened to be 5 books that I have on my shelf that I absolutely loved at the time that I read them. But then I completely forgot everything about them. The first one I'm going to be talking about and I want to know down there in the comments some books that you guys have read that you remember absolutely loving but you can't remember anything about them. At the very least maybe you can remember one scene that affected you and that's why you keep the book around or why you plan to reread it or whatever. But the topic of discussion today are books that you loved that you can't remember a damn thing about. First one is My Only Wife by Jack Jemps. Despite the amazing cover that looks like you can put your finger in the keyhole you can't. It's just paper. There's no depth to it. Really cool cover though. Despite that I can't remember anything about this. I couldn't tell you the first thing about this book about the premise and any of the characters absolutely nothing. I know I read it because I wrote a review for it. I also read False Bingo which was a short story collection of this authors. I read these two back to back. I know that again because I put that in my review. But I don't remember anything about False Bingo either. That was a collection of short stories and I gave it 3 stars. But this one I gave 5 stars. I did not read my review because I wanted to go into this topic blind. And the more I'm trying to rack my brain the more I can't remember anything. Maybe it's about a missing wife. Complete blank. I have no idea. Next one up is from an author. I literally went out and bought all this dude's books because of this one book. And the second one that I read I didn't care for it all and ended up not finishing. But yeah that's Lest in Zero by Brett Easton Ellis. Whether or not you like him or not I don't care too much for him personally. But he's not someone that I stay away from because of his views. I do like his writing and I love this one. But the only thing I can remember about it I gave it 5 stars. The only thing that I can remember is that the ending disgusted me. That's the only thing I can remember. I have no idea what it's about. I have no idea what else I liked about it. Why I liked it when the ending upset me so much. I don't know I didn't read the review but this is another one. The other book that I tried that I ended up quitting was American Psycho. I absolutely loved the movie. It is an amazing film with Christian Bale and Jared Leto and some other well known actors. But I loved the movie.  Amazing scene. Loved it. Couldn't tell you what this is about. The next one we have is one that might shock some of you. Now my review for this one I did read because it was only a sentence long.  The power of the dog by Don Winslow. It's about the cartel. Okay I remember falling hard for one of the characters in this book. A dude that did not show up in the sequel whatsoever and I think that's one of the reasons why I just kind of wrote this off. I believe in the last book I can't even remember the other book's names. I do have them down here on the shelf but I'm not going to turn around and look at them because that's the point of this topic. What can you remember? I believe one of them is called The Border and one of them is called The Cartel. Maybe something. I read the second one in the series and I liked it all right but it wasn't anywhere near as good as this one and this one I can't remember anything about. So was I in a weird state of mind when I read it? I don't know. Obviously I was because that review is not like any of my other reviews and it tickles me that there was a comment on the review that said the only reason I'm buying this book is because of this review. It's the best review I've ever read.  I can't remember anything about this. I know Don Winslow is a great author. He's a lot of fun. His twitter is a little annoying even though I'm politically on the same side of the fence as him. I can't stand people who only talk about one thing and Winslow is one of those people. But anyways power of the dog. What's it about? I don't have a clue. Next up is another one where I went out and bought every single one of this guy's books. I got not every single one but I bought several and I bought them new too which is rare for me. I only do that with books that I absolutely love. Authors that I just completely fall in love with and that is Fuminori Nakamura I believe is how you pronounce it. That's the thief. I read this. I do recall the very first line in my review is I read this in one sitting and that's probably why I can't remember it even though there are many books like The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon that I read in one sitting. Many of Stephen King's books the first time I read it. Read it in one sitting. I can remember everything but this one and not so much. Also I will add that most of these books on this list were all read about the same time. So I don't know what I had going on. It was years before my mother passed away and that's probably the most significant life change I've been through since I started this channel and started reviewing and everything. But yeah this one I dub. It is what it is. It's obviously about a thief. What is he stealing. I don't know but I gave it five stars because I was in a mood obviously. That's going away. One is a book that this one is going to sound funny and maybe I'm admitting something here. I don't know. But I was reading my review and there was a comment in the review that said oh my god I can't believe you like this. This book is so forgettable. And I remember coming and it was like no this is one of my favorite books of the year. This is what I responded with. I don't. They were right. Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInery. I don't know what happens in this book. I don't know what it's about. I got this as an advanced review copy when Crown Publishing was doing blogging for books. They would literally send you a first edition hardcover instead of a paperback arc or a digital arc. And they close that up. I think they've gone out of business or they have merged with someone. I don't know. But yeah this one I remember it has something maybe Irish. Irish characters don't know. And I don't know if my mind is just going there because of Lisa's last name. I'm not sure. But I remember enjoying the characters. I remember it was a good character piece. But as far as scenes I don't remember a single thing. Hopefully this video is not too boring and I'm trying to make it as entertaining as possible. I thought it was a good idea when I sat down to do it. And I still do. But I just realized that every single one of these is like what happened? I don't know. Moving along. But I literally don't remember a thing about these. And I just wanted to be honest. I thought it was an interesting topic and I wanted to see if I could gain some solidarity or maybe get some validation for how weird I am that I love these books so much and I can't remember a thing about them. So definitely down there in the comments let me know if there's books that you loved that you gave five stars and you fanboy girled them all over the place. But now you can't remember anything about them. Maybe one scene is the only caveat. That's probably not the right word. But the only exception would be like you can only remember one scene in the book. But yeah, let me know down there. That's all the time I have for you today. This was this was fun for me if for no other reason than I can pick on myself and be like why why did you why did you go so hard for this book? Only to forget everything about it.  Why does my shirt do that? I don't get it. It's what is this like particle effects? I don't know, but it's so mesmerizing.


A bit of confusion. I forgot, no one's surprised that I forget things, that I'm going to let this box choose my palette for today. So, yeah, that's what we're doing. I'm very excited about it because GUD got us these boxes, these cubes, and they have all these amazing colors in them. Pardon me, I'm prepping a board because I wasn't all together prepared for today because I thought I was doing something different. But you know what? Life happens and today life has me behind. Anyone else? Just me? Cool. Okay. Easy peasy prep looks like this and I'm very excited and scared about this because if you guys know me, you know that I'm very color-specific in what I like to use and my dear fairy, our mother Judy, got me these cube color boxes and in them are amazing palettes with all different sorts of colors and I haven't gone through that I should. Okay, so the lady in me that is not a fan of quite a few colors wants to go through and pick out the palettes I'm not the most fond of, but I'm not going to do that. So I'm going to let you guys decide first, box one or box two. I don't know if there's really any difference in the two other that there are different palettes in the two. So what do you guys think? Vote now. I got one, two and no ones so far. I only got one, one and three twos. Four twos. Five twos, Jerry. We'll do box one on this coming next Tuesday about dim apples. Okay, so now we're going with box two, Tim Pease, you got jokes. How am I going to do this? How about this? I'm going to have Jeff in the other room yell stop and where he stops, I will pull that card about that. Let me get you guys zoomed in. A little bit. I'm not going to zoom. Oh, there we go. Sorry for all the movement. Okay. Yeah, right, but we can't scoot to the wall because of that floorboard. B, I need you to tell me where to stop. Stop. Oh, way back here. Okay.  I'm sorry. Okay, go. I am so scared. Is it that one? Just push down. That's this one. Okay, I can work with that. All the ones around this one were fun, but a second ago when I pulled the- I showed them box one, unboxed two, what was in them. I put like this and it was like all grays and then browns and yellows. And I was like, I'm scared. Okay. So we have a palette for today and I'm scared. Okay. So here's what we've chose. Here's the color reference where the palette came from. And so I need to get, oh my goodness, a green, a dusty purple, a purple, a lilac, and a something else. Okay. That looks like in this family. And then what shade is that green? Not pistachio. It's like an emerald or a phthalo. So what do I have open that's around there? I'm going to feel like an absolute cad if I don't do this justice. And yes, I said cad. No, I'm not going to take it back. Why couldn't it have been teals? I'm not complaining. What is this? Hercoy. So just resin emeralds, red plum for the mulberry. What is that purple? What purple do you guys think that is? Sweet. What is the thing you put in a wind shield, a sun guard? That doesn't sound, huh? A visor. The big aluminum thing. Do you guys know? That is true. If I don't try it, you'll never know if you like liked it or not. And so we're going to find out together. Hey, Shelly. It's 6 12 a.m. one. We'll hope you're having a great coffee. Hello, Kalera. So I am mixing my resin with my I stoio mixer and I'm apparently dying. I'm just going to let this spin out and then I'll hand mix the rest of it. So are you guys arting today? Tell me all about it. I'm using Stone Coat Art Coat for the resin today. It's a one to one resin. Super easy to work with, very long working time. I love it and I'm pretty sure most everybody that works with it loves it. There are haters, but there's haters with every brand and it is what it is. All right. While that's finishing up mixing, let's set everything up real quick. Rachel, I have the mixer linked in my Amazon. If you click the link that says Amazon under this video, it's in there. Maybe I'll try to remember to do to link it better. Tumblr arting. That is a great day. My pleasure, my pleasure. All right. So even though I use the I stoio mixer to mix the bulk of the resin, it still doesn't get the what is work cup. My mixing bucket, it doesn't scrape those edges. So I have to go in and manually scrape those. And yes, I'm out of smaller mixing buckets with struggle. It's very important if you don't know to fully incorporate both part A and part B of your piece because if you don't, you could end up with a piece that never sets ever or a piece with sticky spots or it may take forever to cure or make your tooth fast. A lot of things happen when you don't mix your resin fully and completely. So if you don't know, now you know. And that includes the bottom of it and your stir stick. All right. So can you do milkshakes with that mixer? I'm sure you could. It's very like, what is that? The hammock Donald's Frosty. Does a mixer, does that mixer a bubbles to the resin? So I think you're asking if it's going to add bubbles to the resin. And let me tell you why the answer is mostly no. When I mix it with my hand, I mixed in most of these bubbles, which isn't even that much. But because the mixer is in there and then it spins instead of like the pedals all the way in there, instead of coming out and back in, it won't introduce more bubbles than when you just put the mixer into the resin. I'm in order from Jericho today and I'm starting a 60 to 120 centimeter commission wall art. I think that's a lot of centimeters, but I don't speak centimeters. But it sounds like a pretty good size piece. And I hope you do an awesome job. And I know you will because I've seen your work. McFlurry, that's the word. Okay. So first colors first. This is dark green and it's giving me like depth options. The closest color that I had open is going to be this Emerald from Just Resin. Special thanks to Tudor for organizing all of my colors. Oh my goodness. I am so nervous. I don't know why. Just Sam. 120 centimeters is 47 plus inches. Wow. That's like a four foot piece. 47 inches. So this is the Emerald from Just Resin. It's not going to focus because my phone doesn't want to. It's a very nice dark like hunter green color, but with a slight gold shimmer interference to it. Really nice color. I should have my order from Just Resin in pretty soon. So if I'm out of any of these colors, make sure you subscribe to our newsletter artist till death.com.  That's a new email. So a lot of people ask me why I like working with paste. And the answer comes to a lot of different reasons. But the fact that I can vigorously mix my color in, it doesn't take long. And I don't get any puff back into my face from powder. It is a technical term. All right. The second color is a Mulberry. And I believe I pulled a red plum from Resin Art for that. You can get all of these colors on our website, artisttilldeath.com typically. If I'm out, I won't be out for long. Coffee table size. That's amazing. Kim really loves the green. It's a great green. As far as greens go, I never do that well with green, but that's a good green. So this red plum is a little bit more on the purple side in real life. But it has a gold interference as well. And then that plummy base color. Okay. The next one they have is the color purple. And I'm going to use Violet from just Resin for that one. It may be a little bit hot of a shade, but it's a good color. And I think it'll warm up the palette. So Jerry, I'm a fan of paste over Micah. But honestly, that comes down to what you're doing. Honestly. Honestly. Okay. This color is coming in a little bit bright for the palette, but I'm going to roll with it because I mixed this Resin a while ago. It's not warm yet. But I fear it will happen sooner than later. Yeah. Everyone's different. Vam does prefer Micah. People just like what they like because they do. What's up Vegas? Maniac? Having your Bluetooth on. Does that drain your phone? Anytime you have anything where it's trying to connect will drain your phone. So the dusty purple I pulled this color. If it's trying to connect to anything, it's sending out a signal. So it's using battery. I think this was called Wisteria. I don't know if I have any of this particular color in stock. But if anyone out there is interested in this color, I will get it back in for you. Clara, the violet is the fluorescent violet. Yeah. I think this was Wisteria and I don't know if I have any in stock. And the last one, this is calling for lilac. I'm going to use not that. I hope this is usable. Yeah. This is a color that I custom made now that I'm looking at it. I think it was for a periwinkle that I had to do. If you guys don't know, I color match and make custom colors for people all the time. Just shoot me an email with a color swatch and I can do it just for you. So this is our palette. Okay, Bowie. We have a dark green, a mulberry, purple, a dusty purple, and a lilac. So the violet is kind of warm. So I may tone it down with just a little bit of this Wisteria color. Oh my goodness. Bee, what are you doing? She's looking for you. Come on. So I'm going to add some of this Wisteria to darken. Oh, you guys like that lilac color? Well, if you are interested, shoot me an email and I'll make you a custom lilac. Those are different. Enough. Sorry about all that, Ruckus, y'all. Okay. Okay. I'm going to do a white because the verbiage is in white. So that's what I'm going to do. Okay, Bowie. Bee, will you get the door because I don't know if it's people or a drop-off? Bowie. You don't think you can go wrong with any of those colors? I don't think so either, so we'll see. Well, I tell people I only like to use four colors, but today's a different day. All right, Bowie. So how should I pour this out, you guys? What do you think?  What do you think? That's a good potty. That's a good girl. Puppy's pottying in the right spot. It's a good day. Thank you.  So maybe I'll try to do all of those things, zigzag, and then a swipe. Swipe, dirty, dirty, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe. Right. I think I'm going to do a translucent white as well. I'm not going to get really any big cells with this because I didn't do any, I don't have any color passion. Judy, I'm using those cards today. So I like to use translucent because it always gives depth to a piece. So cool. That's what our translucent looks like. You can just see through it. It's like cloudy. All right, let me have some resin left over for just in cases. All right, I think what I'm going to do is a swipe that ultimately incorporates some dirty pour ribbons. So I'm going to have to do an opaque background because maybe not. All my colors are opaque, so it should be fine. I'm going to put some gold sparkle in the clear that I have left just a little bit so you can see through it, but you have a good sparkle color payoff. I'm just going to use this to thinly grease the pan. That's not even enough grease. I'm going to hope the green that's on my gloves doesn't come off onto the piece, but if it does, then it does and that's fine. Since all of our colors are opaque, actually the violet fluorescent from just resin is translucent. Everything else is opaque aside from that violet and the translucent white that we made translucent. So you're not really going to see through to the substrate that much because pigments that are opaque you can't see through and translucent pigments you can see through. Thank you, Clara, for putting in the links for me. Turn this light around because I am sure it's going to hinder visuals. Cool. Okay, so, okay. Swiping paper check. So I'm going to start with the darkest color first and then work my way out with the lighter purples. I like to try to alternate what side I'm coming in on with the resin because you can see that this side is thicker because that's where I started the pores. What do I do with the pieces when I'm done showing you? Yeah, they are all available for sale. If you like a piece that we do on the live, you can kind of call dibs and say you want to purchase it and shoot me an email and I'll send you an invoice and I'll ship them out. And then for all the pieces that don't sell right away, we do a fire sale. Try to do not so much a fire just an art sale once a quarter. Okay, okay. So I'm going to do the green. Oh my goodness. Okay, I'm scared. So green and purple when they mix together make not a pretty color. So I'm going to try to keep them separated. Hey Evelyn, who's to say if they're going to stay separated or if they're even going to stay pretty colors? They may not, but we'll find out together. So because I know that they will make not a cute color together, I'm not going to add that much heat. Okay. So here we go, you guys.  So if I laid it all into this red plum color, all the top is going to look like red plum. But if I lay my swiping paper in all of the colors, then they will all pick up. I don't know why it skipped like that, but we can go by and fix it in a minute. You guys are really upfront. Hopefully I'm still in frame. A heart. Okay, we'll leave it. So whenever you swipe, you don't want to put your swiping paper in vertical because then you'll just scrape everything off. So you want to go in horizontal. I usually let about an inch soak up before I start swiping. I don't think I've ever done a swipe without some kind of base cell something going on. So I'm very interested to see if any interesting effects come out of the piece since we didn't use anything that would yield those results. Also, when I do these kind of swipes, I kind of stagger where I'm swiping from where I'm starting, but it doesn't look like just someone's part in their hair, for example. It is a distinct heart and I'm surprised I couldn't see it before, but you guys definitely spotted it. That is not a pretty stop, but I'll fix that in a moment. I only use my swiping papers one time because whatever color, like I mentioned before, is kind of on top is going to be what your swipe color is. So if I went back in with this and put it in the green, it's still going to have purple on the top because whatever color is on your paper first is going to be what color it turns out. She can't get to use the pins up and still trying not to use too much heat. Surprisingly, I'm getting some cells. I'm going to tilt this guy some. Hope he's working light so I can be on. That's awesome. Yes, I am crashing RK3's video tonight. Rhonda is under weather. So I'm stretching this side of the swipe piece by adding heat to only this area so it would move faster. And then I'm going to do the same down here, all the while avoiding hitting that heart so that it stays. One of my favorite things about Stone Coat is that I guess all resins, if you know how to work them, you can change and manipulate some areas without manipulating others by heating them. All right. Your cat's staring at the screen. That's cute.  I'm trying to keep colors that won't drive well separated. So essentially, I'm going to try to keep the green fully separated from the purples by putting the green where that the gold sparkle went in. All right. Now I need another stick anywhere. There's one. So now we got our dirty poor. I'm going to just give it a swirl for good measure so I can bring up some of those colors. I don't know where I'm going with this, but we'll find out together. Bowie, that's enough. Does not look like much right now, but I'm going to make it successful. Just give me a minute. I like the ribbons. I almost wish I did the whole thing that way. Bye, Vamp. Sometimes I just am not the biggest fan of a piece until the very end. And not every piece can be a success, but I love working with things that kind of break me out of my comfort zone like colors I wouldn't normally use. I fear we may interrupt the heart, but I'll add another heart in there just for you guys. Not my best piece so far, but I have resin left, so it's not over. Have you ever reported peace? I have many times reported peace. There's no shame in reporting a piece. So I really like what this ribbon looks like. I'm going to try to, I'm putting way too much resin on this piece, and that is okay, but it's a lot. So I only use the lilac and the green, the translucent white in this one because I liked this ribbon. So I'm just adding ribbons of color through the areas that I would kind of want to break up.  I do too. I think I may leave the negative space and then tilt this way. And yeah, if you don't like something, here's your answer. Just take a stick. Let's say I don't like any of what's on this side. Do that, and then fill it in with what you would like there. We're going to just do white, so it kind of hopefully maybe a little bit balances with the negative space on the other side. Bye, Donna.  Nope, that is opaque. That's okay. So when you want to do a dirty pour that has depth like this, you want to use a lot of transparent and not add too much actual color. Just a little swizzle. That just looks like a candy cane. Who let me do that? This is by far one of the busier pieces I have ever done. I think I'm going to put some breaks of just solid whites. Now we're going to tilt and see what we're left with. Oftentimes, you end up with a piece that's not your favorite. Just tilt it. All right. I've added arguably way too much heat for the colors that are on here, but that's all right. And if this doesn't work to make it something that I'm proud of, then I'm going to write what I was saying as I was saying it. Little girl dog was trying to get out of the pen. I'm going to do a super swipe. What colors do you guys not like working with? What's your least favorite color? I'll help you. Ms. Ma'am. Brown. Yeah, I'm not good with brown. Orange and pink. Yellow. Yellow is a struggle. I'm going to add some heat to get it to flow a little faster because when you thin your resin, no, when you heat your resin, ultimately you're thinning it. When your resin is thinner, it's going to move quicker and easier. All right. I think that this is a point that I can let this piece live. Not mad at it. Let me get you guys up close and see what you all think. So here's a from afar focus. So this was a board I painted over just to art today, but I can see here that there was some texture in it that is grabbing some of the color. That's what those streaky striations are from on this piece. Those colors ended up working well together right there. See how you can see this red go over that purple right there in this area? That's because we're working with a little bit of translucent. I like that you can see that gold shimmer all the way through it. So I don't know if I'm a fan of the colors ultimately on this one, but I do like the flow that we ended up with. I think it's got a lot of nice movement and it's not too busy. It would look a lot better with different colors for sure, but I'm not mad at it. And next Tuesday we're going to pick another card from the other box. We're going to keep them going back and forth. You guys just remember the next week is box one. And so we're going to do that every Tuesday. Join us tomorrow at 6 p.m. for another live. I'm not sure what we're going to do, but it will be art. It will be fine. Could be resin. Could be something completely not resin. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed. Hope you're entertained, educated, or otherwise informed in some way of something, whether it was what not to do or what to do. Hope you join me tonight on RK3 Designs Channel. I'm going to be doing probably a marble my way because it's a, you know, countertop finish channel. If you haven't subscribed, please do so. Leave me your thumbs. Put a comment down after this video post. And yeah, you guys are amazing. Shoot me an email with any questions I didn't get to. And I hope you guys have an awesome, awesome, awesome day. Until next time, be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through.  And I'll show you the babes. Let me see. Nope. Let me see where they are. Hold on. There's one. There's that cute little girl causing all that ruckus second ago. What are you doing? Little fox? Are you getting tired? Are you going to fall asleep right here? Oh my goodness. I bet you would if I left my hand here. And a Bowie is probably, I think he's under the bed. So that was your puppy fix for today. All right, you guys. See you guys in the next video. Bye. Bye.


Hey everyone and welcome to my channel. I am Yoshida and this is Norris Cove. Today we're in the B6. We are doing our weekly spread for the week of the 8th through the 14th. I'm gonna take some of the gadgets and good wet nuts off. You guys I love love love love my B6. I just I was trying to narrow down like what I want to use for the next six months and I know one thing I cannot get rid of my B6. So this was last week in my B6. I had a lot popping you know going on. This kit was from my June subscription box from Simply Guild. I actually did a video on my box. I may still upload it not sure and as you can see I haven't done anything else. Today is actually Friday so I still have some more things over here to do. So let's just jump right on in. I'm using my kit from Niki Plus 3. I love her kits. Here lately I've been getting mainly her kits. So this is what the kit looks like. It is Sweet Peach. That's the thing. I also use her kit for my June month excuse me my July monthly in my B6. So I will try to remember to list the information below but this is what it looks like and it actually kind of matches my nails. How cute. So this is what it looks like and this is Gold foil.  A build-do sticker, another kind of habit tracker here, some washi thick and some thin and then we have our date covers along with some more boxes and we're back at the front. So let's get started. I'm going to go ahead and start. So I'll probably fast forward through me laying the dates and all that good stuff and actually I'm just gonna do that off camera and then I'll be back once I have probably the washi and the date dots laid. Okay you all so I'm back and I have my washi down, I have my dates covers and date dots in. Let me make sure that you can see and then let's zoom in just a little bit. There we go. So now I'm just gonna get into decorating and I kind of have my week kind of planned out in my head but first I want to put down my habit tracker because I'm don't want to forget that. So I'm put that here up here up top and then that's gonna be for working out, working out or walking slash walk and I have a whole another you know section in my v6 for that but I just don't want to forget that and I want to add it here. Also I have this beautiful box right here. Isn't that pretty and it's something that you can write on. Again Tuesdays are usually a pretty busy day for me. Let me put this to the side. I know I saw one of these some of this pretty head of foil so I'll put that there and I meant to put that on over here but it's okay. It's okay. So Tuesday put that there. It's a little off but it's still fine. On Monday I'm gonna try to do a little catching up Monday once some things like as far as my channel goes and just in general on both channels and I'm going to put to do or should I put today? I'm gonna put today and then I'm gonna use on the 11th I have I'm gonna use another one of those like header boxes foil Thursday is the 11th. I know I have a build due. That's the first thing I'll put down which is my car note and that's in green here. Okay and then on Thursday also I'm gonna use this orange today. Let me add a little bit of bo washi. Not bo washi. What is this? Box header box today. One of my Instagram friends and I believe that not sure if she follows me here but she was saying she can always tell my spreads and I didn't even think that I had a style yet because I'm still kind of learning and I just thought that was neat that she thought that because some days y'all I don't know what I'm doing okay I really don't. I just I go with what I have to do when I'm doing my spreads I kind of like I'm the reason I still put planning up because I'm planning as I in my mind what I have going on and what I need to do so these are basically like to do things here so yeah I just didn't think I had a style yet because I'm just never really know what I'm going to do and then Friday I really don't have a lot going on Friday but I'm gonna use this little border here maybe before I lay down one of these look at this big pretty peach I'm gonna put this here so it's pretty as a peach. Because prayerfully Friday I can get off and you know what oh mercy I picked up some undo and Michaels the other day and I was like this bottle sure looks big I was like I don't know if I really need this I do so that is crooked but I already know it's not coming up it's okay it's really okay so I'm gonna take this pretty peach box here again I don't want to overdo and overcrowd my book like I did once before I learned my lesson because I could not even write anything I mean yeah I've gone to kind of daily planning but I just couldn't even write in it Jesus leave it alone just leave it alone so I'm gonna use this little header box foil and put right so Monday I got a few things to do so I'm gonna use these little boxes here put that there and then I'm gonna use another little box here this peach box I would like to do but even though in this book I have another section where I can add more things so I'm gonna decorate that and then I'm gonna use this to do here and then I'm gonna use both legs and I'm gonna put that here and then I need to put something to kind of break this up I need a box or something over here I'm gonna take this and I'm gonna sit it like in between both of those right there that's what was the leftover washy oh this is so pretty look at that I'm like just a little layering and then I may put another little Tuesday I'm gonna put this box here on Tuesday so has anyone done any did anyone excuse me has did anyone do anything special for the fourth were you with family we you know spend time with your kids I mean what did you do because I did nothing I worked that is exactly what I did I worked and I wasn't even mad about it and I just enjoyed the day or at least try to enjoy the day I'm gonna leave that right there no Tuesday yeah so I just worked and then I enjoyed the rest of the day I tried not to do too too much besides work and that was it okay let's go on over to the back I think I need to put a little list or something here I'm gonna put this little box here in case it's something I want to do this spread is so pretty but yes I didn't do anything major you know it's almost time for my daughter to go back to school so we're just kind of prepping for that some of these stickers in here are crooked y'all have to forgive me okay I wanted to kind of add another element to this little decorative box that I put down and I'm gonna use but I didn't want to use that quarter box seem like it had been too big so this box I'm just gonna put this here I don't want to come up the foil though so I'm gonna put it right there now there we go and I think I'm done on this side let's go to the other side and then I saw the box that fits over top after the fact but it's okay that goes there and then I'm gonna put to do here as well yes I did nothing I just worked made me a couple of dollars and relaxed after that and I cooked dinner I didn't grill because it was stormy here I don't know about where you all are you know in the country but it's stormed really really bad here and then after I cooked or whatever had to go get my daughter from work and it was just something else outside I really didn't even want to be bothered after that okay so here's a weekend banner and go I'm gonna put that here on my Friday and Saturday and then I'm gonna put an orange today so I hope you all enjoyed this plan with me planning in my B6 this is what it looks like again this kid is from Nikki plus three from XC and she's also on Instagram we're gonna act like this isn't crooked and this is pretty much my weekend and some more to-do list so I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you're new to my channel please hit that subscribe button leave me a comment in the comment section don't forget to like and also don't forget to hit that notification bell so that you're notified whenever I upload content so I will see y'all in my next video bye


Mae'n bwysig i ddaeth ei wneud arall? A ddaeth i'n bwysig i ddim ni'n dweud i gwybod i'r gwrthwyr i gynnwys. Eftan hyn sy'n gofynion cywbeth yma, fy ychydig ar gyfer yr hyn ar callsiaudiofodion Mary Maclew ac dessлиw parsley, nid o adrwyddo fydd yr Ilio L. A ydych chi'n gweithio i fy hunain yr smêun yn ddullf cryf i roi'r enw cael ei ddrygu. Mae gwnau rhoi ddechrau'n ei ddim yn ddiddordebio. Rydych chi'n gweithio i'r prydysig, is all about enhancing teaching and learning through a regionally accredited programme. What we're doing is we're aligning and enhancing a recently developed as in its first year of iteration. We're just at the final stage this week in a summer school of a new graduate film and MA in teaching, learning and scholarship in higher education to the needs of the three partner institutions within the consortium. We have the University of Edinburgh, the University of Mary I at representing universities. Then we have LIT from an Institute of Technology contact. So we have different contacts to work with them. So you're all familiar with this, so I will go through it again. We took a lot of this on board when we were developing the programme in the first instance last year. So we did a whole programme review on an existing programme and we reviewed it and looked through focus groups and everything. But what we've done in relation to this particular project is we're looking at the innovation and individual pedagogy and assessment. We're looking at new module offerings in relation to the context and needs of the different institutions. And we're also looking at the need for recognised prior learning guidelines and ways of assessing that for entrance into the programme. Particularly a programme that we're all looking at here today, which is for a level nine programme where we're looking at teachers in higher education. So our students are actually our colleagues. So that's where it's a little bit more complex I suppose. So what we're actually doing, this is it in a graphic. Collaborative planning is part of what the Channing consortium has been doing for the last ten years and we're delighted to say that. So we're literally looking at the stakeholder needs analysis is literally completed, I'd say, two weeks ago across the three institutions. We're also scoping out recognised prior learning within the consortium and within the Irish context. And we've looked abroad as well to our international colleagues in CEDA to see what's happening there as well. Our aim around innovative pedagogy, assessment and provision was again to plan this provision across three contexts at three different institutions and look at what's required. And find out what our faculty, our peers, our potential students really need in this regard. So bearing in mind the whole idea of technology enhanced learning and the idea of an e-portfolio and developing e-portfolio around the assessment element of it. And the modules that we identified initially in our initial discussions around this and our initial piloting of it was the idea of leadership and education was something that we saw was missing. And sustainability in that regard and human development, internationalisation and inclusive education again seemed to be very much at the forefront with our UK colleagues but not necessarily something we were looking at in our programme. So that's really where our image of what we're actually about. So while we've come to date on what we're at, we've gained ethical approval for the project for the three institutions. We've communicated the overall project to our key stakeholders. So again that was management, that was potential students, that was our current faculty, that was post graduates. We completed six focus groups so two in each institution with the key stakeholders to establish what their needs are. So as I said our faculty are our students so there's two roles there. We also had management in there in terms of what management fath, deans and heads of department around what their expectations and requirements for a programme like this would be. In terms of recognised prior learning this is just Pandora's box in terms of what's there and what's not there and how it's managed and how people interpret the guidelines that they have in each institution. We're scoping that through, we've engaged with the National Forum, our sponsored recognised prior learning network. We're very much comparing, we sent out a request to our colleagues in CEDA through their jisc mail around what's happening, what our institution is doing. And the University of Sheffield has a very interesting model that we're looking at as does the University of Central Lancashire. So we're looking at both of those at the moment. There are much more lengthy processes than we thought. In Sheffield we're talking four or five months for somebody to get accreditation before they get on a programme. So it's quite a long wait for some people. So we're looking at that and the difficulty is around the experiential learning rather than the certified learning. So certified is quite easy to map, it's the experiential learning and that's where we're grappling and that's where we're just at that fact finding stage. And we're hoping to draft these universal sector guidelines so that people in different institutions across the sector can say, OK, we could adapt these for our institution in relation to a similar type programme that we're running. Curriculum development, we have two problems to this and we've done two pilots per se if you like in relation to what we're about. The first is around the aligning the professional development framework for people coming in at an 18 credit certificate level. OK, so they've completed 18 credits, they needed to up their credits to 30 credits to qualify with a specialist diploma.  One in a group where they looked at a particular topic and a challenge that challenged them in their work. And they worked on a group project bearing in mind the model of reflective practice and evidence based learning and reflection that's in the national development plan. They're literally submitting individual portfolios last week and the rest of the group portfolios are next week. Our colleagues then from HR and from our own centres for teaching and learning are delivering today as part of a pilot of a 12 credit module for a 60 credit programme, which is this graduate diploma. These colleagues are working on, I can show it here anyway in a minute. They're working on international inclusive education, they're looking at sustainable education and human development and they're looking at leadership and education. So I'm teaching on Friday in terms of international and inclusive education. My colleague Martin Fitzgerald is teaching sustainable education and human development of the angelica rescased tomorrow. And then our colleagues from Mary I are teaching leadership and education today. This has been a collaborative event through liaising together in developing the content for those themes. And those themes were formed part of a much bigger week I suppose. So I'll show you the overall structure for you to forgive me for separating through. The module we called Contemporary Issues in Higher Education. And this was around looking at relevant pedagogies and themes that are really interesting to people teaching in higher education. And really exploring a variety of strategies to engage the experiences in different contexts. So the schedule for the week is as such so we have Professor Norman Jackson from the UK who was over in the initial plan anyway outside of working with us on this particular module. To coordinate the week and we're all giving our inputs into that. So in that you can see we have National Forum in there in terms of what the National Development Framework were. And each of the afternoons the individuals are working on their own creative portfolio developments at their professional web page around what they're doing, where their challenges are, what innovations they're engaging with along the themes that have been identified in the morning. And that's how that week is structured and that's just a pilot of what we've been doing this week. I want to go back, apologies now. Focus Group themes then came through and as I say we ran six focus groups across three institutions. And interestingly what we had predicted to come up maybe didn't come up as strongly as we thought and other themes came up much stronger. So you can see skill development teaching and learning was very much at the forefront and again that aligns very much with the professional development framework. Ethics and professionalism in there as well in relation to really how do we draw the lines, how do we work the boundaries. Our disciplines are very different and taking into account the different disciplines that we're looking at because we don't teach the disciplines very much like the previous project. Bringing in the specific disciplines wasn't something that we had looked at and we used the experience of the participants on a programme to explore how they apply things in different disciplines rather than us talking about how you might do it in STEM or how you might do it in arts or what have you. And then the pedagogy is different in the different contexts. That's dealt with very well in this pilot and I've met a couple of the participants yesterday and they were saying it's going really well in relation to just exploring how they're engaging their own discipline and pedagogy in a much more creative way. So again that was only two days in so let's see. In terms of the resources came up as an issue for focus groups. Really the blended idea of the previous project sounds very interesting to me. Workload and time and space is a major concern for people embarking on a programme like this very much because in the ITs for example you're talking 17 or 18 contact hours so where is the time for managing their own CPD and fees. That's an issue for sustainability who is going to fund this where the resources are going to come for this so that's something we need to consider and that's on our agenda. The role of RPL is something that's come through as well from the current students on the programme. How can their own experience particularly in scholarship be acknowledged and accredited in relation to the scholarship modules on the programme is not something that we have to look at so how can we give credit to people, their own experience and their own writing. How can we give credit to them and exemptions potentially in relation to that when they're experienced academics perhaps. So there are two things that came up around recognised power learning that we are exploring. The panel feedback from previous meetings in December. The three key themes that we saw coming through that panel feedback and again you can correct me if I've misinterpreted anything. Engagement was something that came up how will we get people to engage with this programme. So what we have worked towards in that regard is that it's a structured CPD process across the consortium. All it's open to everyone and it's designed in a way that it meets the needs of each institution rather than just what we presume it to be. If we were to just go with what we presume it to be the week that we've just run would be it forever. Whereas we were piloting out how that's going and how that structure might work just in terms of a taster. There has been inter-institution and collaboration across the project in all its forms and we have regular meetings every month. We sit down and work through where we're at and what the next stage is. There's three exit points of the programme. You have a certificate, a graduate diploma and a master's so you can exit with a certificate at 21 credits. You can exit with a graduate diploma at 60 credits and you can exit with a master's at 90 credits. Again, it may be that there will be a requirement and depending on how these, our first full cohort come out, it may be that they want to spread it over longer periods of time. Maybe they do want to do it over two years rather than a calendar year. I don't know. Initially with the current cohort we had expected, we had an initial cohort of 16. There are now 11 continuing on to graduate diploma masters. It's interesting that we had initially thought, well, they go for the quick fix of 21 credits, but actually once they got involved in it and engaged in the process and the discipline, the network that they developed that has changed. Engagement with the national development framework through enhancement. We're sharing experience all of the time with our students and with our faculty and that's something that's key to how that type of a programme works, that all of the experience and the networking that goes on outside of the classroom is hugely important. The new content and approach is very much what we're piloting this week around innovative pedagogy and using a new portfolio and their own website development to capture their career to date and to map it to where they fit on the national development framework. Finally, in relation to evaluation and sustainability, we're looking at building capacity and teaching and learning across the consortium, but not just in our own local region. We're talking across the sector. We're using our own local region as representative, if you like, economies of scale as well, that we won't be producing three different programmes. We have one programme that everyone can link into and that's very important for us. Evaluation of impact. I'm going to go to the... We've used stuff for being very much to direct us, but this is what we've come out with in terms of what the National Forum has asked us to look at. It was quite difficult to put on the fortune-teller glasses and say, what will the impact be in 18 months? I had a mini panic attack going, how will I predict all of this? But actually we came up, we had a great discussion around it, but actually there's so many impacts we can see already. But again, we need to be much more explicit around how we're going to measure those rather than anecdotally maybe like I'm saying or yesterday was a great experience for students. We need to really capture it. So the direct impact of CPD across the consortium, the reports of improvement, people's self-esteem, people's sense of confidence and validation in the professions hugely, something that we see all of the time and we need to look at measuring that maybe more explicitly. Collaboration around projects and presentations, not just for us but also for our participants. They're already engaged in working across disciplinary already in their projects and I think that's very exciting to see disciplines working together and I think that can happen across the institutions also. Self-report is obviously improvement on the repertoire of teaching skills. That's something really important to everybody on the programme, but also for us as collaborators on something like this. We want to make sure that people can see the outcome of what their efforts have been. The impact then on the learning and the learners, flexibility of pathways, that's I think the crux of what it's all about, making sure that there's access there, that it is inclusive that everybody can gain access to this if they want and the prior learning is really where all of that comes together and making sure that we do recognise not just the accredited programmes but the experiential because when you are talking about faculty at level nine, we're talking about people who may have 20 years experience. I have three faculty members on the programme at the moment with 20 years experience each, one of them is a head of department so we have to acknowledge their experiential side of things as well. Organisational practices again, the whole idea of the RPL. Sustainable practices around development of pedagogy and curriculum is hugely important to us that we're capturing what's required. For example, an example in LIT might be very different to what's required in our institution and again in Neary Isle. We're talking about three very different contexts and how we might meet the needs and the content needs that are coming through. For example, in LIT there was a lot of focus around we need to have pedagogy for different types of disciplines whereas in the university that wasn't something that the students reported at all or something that they were concerned about. The enhancement and sustainability again. This is where we're going to have a lot of discussion again the whole idea of international policy. We need to link into international policy, we need to look at processes in terms of the scholarship of teaching and learning. We're talking with Ruth Pilkington at the moment around the recognised prior learning and the scholarship around what she's done in that regard but also in relation to people publishing in the area. And finally then to develop the collaborative framework beyond the time frame. So again we're back to sustainability. We're again back to the awful words like money and time and resources and those kind of things that we will need to pin down and we need to be very clear with our own human resource departments. We're going to have to be very clear in terms of CPD and graduate studies around how that comes together. So at that point I'd like to thank you for your time and apologies if I went over.