Photography is the art of writing with light. And if there was one thing that I wish I could go back and tell my younger photographer self, it is to understand light, to kind of really get to grips with it as soon as you possibly can. How's it? How's it? Light is such a tricky little thing, isn't it? It's because we can't, we can't hold it. We can't really, you know, we can't really feel it. We can't physically move it around. How do you manipulate light? How do you bend it to your will when you are not working with studio strobes or something like that? Do you're working with the untamable natural light that is all around us? The first thing then is to look for light. Like actively look for light. Look around you right now, depending on where you are. If you're watching it at night in a lounge or a darkened room, then see how little pools of light are interacting with things. If you're outside on a bus or whatever, see, you know, see what the, look around you. Look and see what the light is doing and really look at it. Don't, don't just think that you know what it's doing. Really look, see if it's, if it's like I've mentioned today, you see the thing in the window is now gone. Those light changes all the time. And if you're aware about how it looks, how it, how it manipulates the scene, then you're taking a step towards actually being proactive with it rather than just letting it ride roughshod over you. As you're out there looking at all the light and seeing what it does in our friends back again, so many times he turns up during the video, then something you will notice is often light is accompanied by shadow. Of course, yes. So usually when there is light, there is a shadow of some description and shadows, I feel tend to get overlooked quite a lot as a, as an element of a scene. But of course they can be really profound. They can, they can add so much to your photographs. You can of course hide distracting elements in shadow. You can use shadow to make images or make colors feel brighter. Right. My face right now is brighter, from an illumination point of view, but also it stands out more and has a bit more of vibrance to it because I'm against a darker background. If this background were a lighter color, my, my color, the color on my, my, you know, my jumper and all that sort of stuff wouldn't be as pronounced. And you can think about this. We've all done this where we've driven along. There's like a storm. Again, there's a common theme this day, right? There's a storm cloud. There's this dark brooding clouds and the sun is coming down behind you and the trees that are lit and picked up against that dark cloud have a almost iridescent feel to this, this, this strong warm color. That's because it's against a, it's contrasted against a dark background, the brooding sky. So think about that. If you want to make colors feel stronger, more powerful, then contrast them with shadow. Alex Webb does this and I mentioned Alex Webb a huge amount on this channel. That's for the good reason. And I will link to his video at the end of this, but I would highly recommend it if you are thinking about how to, you know, combine and contrast colors on a day-to-day basis. Look at his photography. It's no secret that light influences mood, how we feel about certain scenes. You know, the, the bright, burning, washed-out colors of a desert makes us feel warm. It makes us feel like we are, you know, being bleached almost by the day. It's not a very welcoming feel. And conversely that the, the, the, the moody blues and the grays and stuff of a winter scene also put us in a certain state of mind. They make us feel cold. They make us want to wrap our coats around us. So don't overlook the power of what color and lighting can do when you want to convey a certain mood in a photograph.  So you can see how they, you know, we're familiar with the scene and yet it changes, depending on how the light looks, how the clouds look, how everything comes together. So that's kind of really a very ham-fisted way maybe of explaining how mood looks in your photograph through, through the use of light.   And, you know, those kind of things that we traditionally associate with summer, if you want a cool, cold look, then you want that very flat lighting that we associate with winter and overcast skies. Light can be, as I mentioned, a really tricky subject. And let's just break it down into the really simple aspect of it. So you understand next time you're out there in the field with your camera when you are in the world at large, at least you can start to recognize the different types of light at your disposal. So the first light really is kind of, it's front lighting. So what we all kind of assume is it's this, if the lighting is coming down 45 degrees, it's the sun, it's what we traditionally, you know, think of as sort of basic lighting. But then we have something like side lighting. So now my face has changed a lot, hasn't it? Right? I now have some very unpleasant looking shadows on my face because the light is sort of coming in from the side a little bit and it's picking out all the shadows on my face and giving you more of a texture. And that isn't necessarily the most flattering look for me. And of course, now I'm being back there. I've just got my kicker on. That's the only thing that's really here. And I have changed the way that you interpret me now.  I can't see my, I can't see the speaker's face. And it would really kind of start to be quite odd. Because I'm giving a mood in the image that isn't necessarily one that is conducive to talking with somebody. So now we're back with it. So this is kind of, you know, those are simple sort of ideas that I haven't changed. I haven't moved, right? But I lit myself in three different ways that radically alter the way that you interpret the scene. And that's kind of what you want to do when you're out and about is thinking about how you can either move the subject, right? You can, if you're photographing somebody and you want it as a day, really, you know, like today with the clouds that are being either wise and there's no real nice light for photographing somebody, what you can actually do is turn them around, right? So rather than the sun coming in their face, right? Turn them around, so the sun's behind them.  It's a little sort of thing. But see how, you know, you're not moving the sun, you're not moving the subject really, just asking them to turn around 180 degrees. And it radically alters the quality of the light into something that's more flattering for that subject. If you're photographing something where you want lots of text, where you want it to be picked out, then move so the sun is now 45 degrees or not, you know, 90 degrees to the subject and see what you can do. Or if you have the patience all the time, you know, wait until the sun moves. Shoot at those twilight hours as those, you know, the blue hours, the golden hours, all these concepts, they all change the quality of the light. They make your photographs have more of a different feel to them. You can photograph the same scene in the morning, in the lunchtime and in the afternoon and get three very different photographs. Light is very much an active or a passive participant in your photographs. So if you go back to the little guest in the window there, he was an active participant in the image, right, what you're looking at now. But the light that I'm using to illuminate myself is passive. He's not really changing. He's not changing. Everything is very much the same. And you can think about this like with natural light, that a cloudy overclass day where the light is all very even and soft. That is a passive light. Whereas our friend outside, because the clouds are going miles across, you know, because of the storm that's been coming over the last couple of days, the light is changing all the time. It is actively changing the way the scene looks. One minute there is a strong, light, very sharply defined shadows in the next minute. It's a muggy, cloudy bluchness. So look at the light. Think about, is it going to be influencing the scene or do I have to not really worry about it? Can I use it and sort of forget about it? When you start thinking about light in these terms, when you actively out there looking at it, then you're beginning to start to recognize the different qualities that it has and how these can change the way the image looks, how the image feels.  You really want to be looking at light all the time. You want to start getting it as you intuitively understand how it's going to shape the way that your images feel. I mentioned Alex Webb again earlier. Here's the video. Go check him out. He's fantastic. I love his photography. Thanks ever so much for watching and I'll see you again soon.


my friends welcome to my channel and this is a video not just for students who are preparing for UGC net paper one and would like to know how to study from a single guidebook and crack this exam but this video is for anybody out there who is preparing for any competitive exam and has a guidebook with himself but doesn't know how to start and how to prepare from that particular book because this video is going to be a life-changing video for anybody who wants to know how to absorb a book like a sponge how to read information from a book that you never forget ever in your life. So I have got a lot of questions from people in past few months saying that you know which book should we buy for UGC net paper one or for this exam or for PGT or TGT and at times they say that you know one of my friend has bought this book so should I go and buy that and even though they go and buy that book both that person and his friend sits for the exam the friend gets an all India rank whereas that student flanks and then he questions himself that even though we studied from the same book why did not we both clear the exam why did I flunk and that person great marks so what is important for you to understand here is that though it is important to know which book should you refer to for a particular exam it is equally important for you to know how to read that book because even though you get the right book if you don't know how to read it then that book is nothing but a piece of blank paper for you it is not going to help you achieve your dream career so in this video I am going to take you through a very very crucial journey on how to approach a guidebook for any competitive exam specifically we are going to talk about UGC net paper one and I'm going to tell you exactly how you should read from a book so that whenever you are beginning your preparation you know the right method to approach a book let me begin by asking you a question generally how do you start studying a textbook do you study a textbook on your desk sitting in that proper table chair setup or do you read it lying down on your bed just like you read a novel or you scroll through your Instagram think about it right now even the video that you're watching are you watching it sitting on your study table and chair and jotting down the pointers that I'm saying or are you listening to it while lying down on your you know chair or maybe on your bed so how are you listening to this video I'm pretty sure that most of you would come in the category where they start reading a textbook like a novel guys what you need to understand here is that novels we read for leisure for fun we scroll Instagram for fun for entertainment and that is the reason we don't remember the first post we saw this morning on Instagram but when it comes to a textbook that is going to define your career so you need to pay a little more attention there so next time when you sit with the textbook please tell your brain that you should know how to discriminate or differentiate between a textbook and a novel it is the textbook and therefore please sit on your study chair with a table in front of you and a pen and paper handy and make sure you give a signal to your brain saying that this is something important and therefore I need to concentrate and I need to make an effort to remember each and everything that I'm going to read in the next 60 minutes this convincing is very very important attention plays a very crucial role in absorbing information so even though you are not in that mood to study if you just make a little effort and sit on a chair with a table in front of you and a book in front of you you will automatically get a signal from your mind that it's time to study and you will finally find that small motivation from within you saying that let's start and study and let's at least complete a paragraph now let us begin by looking at the steps that you must follow whenever you are approaching a guidebook for a competitive exam let us take the example of UGC net now if you pick any guidebook of UGC net from market you will find that the guidebook is divided into 10 units or 10 chapters these chapters are nothing but the individual units of UGC net paper one you must be aware that UGC net paper one is divided into 10 units like teaching aptitude communication research data interpretation all of these are different units which are referred to as a chapter in the guidebook so always begin by picking any one particular unit for a particular exam don't think of reading the entire guidebook in one go nothing is going to go inside your head you might finish reading the book but if I ask you a single question you will not be able to answer it because you're reading it like a novel just flipping the pages and trying to read that's not going to get inside your brain and you know stay in the long-term memory so always begin with any one chapter of a guidebook the next step is to flip through the pages to get a telescopic view of that particular chapter suppose you begin with a chapter called research aptitude so go through the pages of the chapter one by one don't read anything just skim through the page which means that you only look at the major headings you look at the diagrams or any charts or maybe if there is a bubble out right around the corner you look at that you look at the subheadings and you just try to have an overview of the chapter this will help you to understand what you are getting yourself into you will exactly know that okay what are the concepts that you might find in the chapter when you begin reading it so the first step is to skim through the chapter now let us move at the second step so in the second step we would be looking at the questions which are given at the end of the chapter you might wonder that we haven't read the chapter as of yet and now arpita is saying to read the questions first how is that going to be helpful let me give you a very simple example let's consider two scenarios in scenario one i ask you to go inside a room and just look and observe the things which are lying in the room okay in the second scenario i ask you to enter the same room and i tell you that go and tell me where is the red rose in the room in which of these scenarios do you think you will be able to spot the red rose easily i'm pretty sure it would be scenario number two why because there you have the end in mind when you are entering the room you exactly know what you are looking for so you are going to glance very quickly through the entire room and your subconscious brain is constantly going to search for that red rose and you will be very very vigilant you will be very very attentive in the case one where you don't have anything in mind you might find the red rose but you will not look at it you might not even notice it even though it's lying in front of you because you don't have it in your mind just like that when you go through the questions which are there at the end of the chapter and after that you start reading the chapter you will exactly know what you are looking for so it is very important for you to understand the importance of going through the questions first and then going back and reading the entire chapter it's just like how you solve reading comprehensions in my video on reading comprehension i have discussed this strategy that whenever in an exam you are solving a reading comprehension never read the passage first first read the questions and then read the passage because when you have questions in mind you will exactly know what you are looking for in the passage you are not only going to read faster but you will also get those answers very quickly why because when you are reading your mind is constantly searching for those keywords which you have seen in the question so that is how reading the questions first will help you to understand the text better as well as faster now comes the third step this is where you're gonna read the entire chapter so now once you have skimmed through the chapter you have seen the past papers which are written at the back side of the chapter now you're going to actually start reading the chapter line by line and while you're reading make sure you have a highlighter or a pencil already you keep on marking the important pointers or better way would be to jot down the main pointers so we are running a online video course for UGC net paper one and all the units are a part of it so in each of those units when i am talking about a concept i ask my students to jot down the major points while they are watching that video lecture of mine because that is how they are going to retain the information that i'm giving for a longer period of time so make sure you use the same strategy when you are using textbooks to study whenever you're reading highlight or even write down the main pointers while you are reading the chapter and finally we come on to the fourth point which is use active recall now what is this active recall active recall is nothing but just putting your textbook aside after reading a page or so and just trying to recall the information whatever you have read in the last page so suppose you have read two pages you put the textbook aside and you try to recall what all things have you read so far this is called active recall here your brain becomes active in the learning process if i just keep on reading my brain might sleep and i might not even know but if i'm using active recall my brain is going to be very very active my brain is going to pay attention to every word i'm reading because brain knows that right after 10 minutes the brain will have to tell me whatever i have read so far that is the reason why it is said that repetition is the mother of learning so if you want to learn anything repetition is the key you read it then you revise you read it then you revise that is how you're going to learn anything let me tell you a success formula my friends so success is said to have a very definitive formula which is sm into r here sm stands for smart work and r stands for repetition so anybody who achieves success in this world follows this formula and you know why only one percent people are successful in the world because the rest 99 percent people either do hard work and keep on repeating it or they do smart work and don't repeat it either ways they are not following the formula properly so it is very important very crucial for you to follow the formula properly which is smart work multiplied by repetition so smart work is knowing how to study a textbook and repetition means revising whatever you've studied again and again till the time it is not inched in the brain so this is my take on how to read a textbook in such a manner that you are able to retain as much information as you can and you can clearly qualify an exam in just one attempt so that's it for this video lecture if you have any questions any queries related to UGCnet make sure you give us a call or whatsapp us on the number displayed there otherwise you can also follow us on social media platforms like facebook instagram telegram we are available on all of these platforms and we are having a very very special quiz running on these platforms so you can participate in this quiz free of cost you can also visit our website courses.arpitakarwa.com and find out the video courses for each unit of UGCnet paper one we also have a learning app which is available on android right now you can type arpitakarwa learning app on google play store and get that app it is free of cost you can use it and if you want to enroll in our course you're free to do that so with that note I take your leave that's it from my side I'll meet you very soon in the next video lecture till the time I meet next happy learning keep loving literature and stay tuned to arpitakarwa.com


I'm the chairman of the Einwand Institute. Yeah, at this point I'm the chairman of the board of the Einwand Institute. I used to be the CEO, but I've shifted positions. I've mainly been the spokesman for the Institute. I help a little bit with fundraising. But I travel the world speaking about ideas I'm passionate about. So it's a great position to be in. It's a lot of fun. This idea is to promote the ideas of Einwand. To promote the ideas expressed in the Fountainhead and in Atlas Shrug to Magnus Opus and a lot of philosophical work, the philosophy of Objectivism. The idea is to promote it primarily young people, primarily in colleges and high schools. And really today with technology and the internet any movement is a global movement. So it really has become a global phenomenon. We do anything from providing free books to teachers if they promise to teach the books. We run the largest high school essay contest in the world. We have a lot of online courses, a lot of online classes on her ideas, on her philosophies. We have thinkers and writers at the Institute who speak and who write books, who write articles, applying her ideas to common events. And we have kind of a school at the Institute where you can really, if you really want to become an expert in philosophy and you want to become an intellectual, then we can train you and we can help you do that. So we do a lot of different things. We help graduate schools, we support campus clubs, you know, student clubs. We try to get people when they're young. I mean the fact is that, you know, after age 30 almost nobody changes their mind about anything important in life. We get calcified, we get families, we get, you know, we get careers, we get put into a box. And people shape their lives in terms of the ideas that they're going to hold from between 16 and 30, you know, plus or minus, right? That's where we want to expose them to their ideas. They're fairly radical, fully different. So I speak all over the world. I also have a regular podcast. I don't know, three, four times a week.  I don't know that Ayn Rand would have had much of an opinion about blockchain one way or the other because I don't think she would have understood it. It's real sophisticated technology. I know something about technology and I'm struggling. But I think what Ayn Rand would have said was, you know, let the market play out, right? You know, she would have admired the entrepreneurial spirit that is expressed by many people within the blockchain community. She would have admired the idea of creating more efficient, more productive ways for us to exchange, for us to provide value to one another. So I think she would have been a supporter of the entrepreneurial spirit and the marketplace in blockchain, even without understanding, you know, the actual technology. And to the extent that the blockchain makes it possible for people to become more independent of government, to become more independent of kind of the structures that exist today because of government regulation and government control, then of course she would have been all for that. Well, I mean, I don't think that there's anything special that needs to be done. I mean, I don't think women are different in that sense, right? I think women are quite capable of choosing their own professions. Women are quite capable of deciding what interests them and what doesn't interest them. And, you know, Ayn Rand was the... Think about her heroes in her books. I mean, many of them were women way ahead of their time. The sex in her books was not typical of the 40s and 50s. A Dagney Tagout runs a railroad, right? And this is before women broke the glass ceiling. I think we've come a long way since then. I think today it's natural to think of a woman running a railroad or a woman running a blockchain company or a woman being a CEO of a technology company. And I think we need to stop being paternalistic about it. And I think the idea should be to embrace those women who come in just as colleagues and to encourage them, but not to obsess about it. The fact is that, you know, if you treat everybody the same in a sense of equal rights, if you don't skew education to promote certain things to men and certain things to women, there's still differences between men and women. Men and women are interested in different things. I don't know exactly why, but it's a fact. And women will choose the things that interest them or some women, right? Because you don't want to...not all women are the same either. And there are going to be differences and we should embrace that. So I think we obsess way too much. I mean, look, I would be much happier attending a conference if there were a lot more women in it, because it would just be much more pleasant for me as a man. But putting that aside, we obsess way too much about how many women are here, how many women are there. You know, treat people decently, treat people right, and let them self-select in terms of where they go and where they don't go. Puerto Rico is this amazing... And it's an island. It's an island that has phenomenal weather. It's right on close to Equator. So you have almost perfect weather year-round. It doesn't get super, super hot, and it never gets below 70 degrees Fahrenheit, so it's got this perfect weather. It's a beautiful island. It's got terrific beaches. But what I think makes it unique right now, in this point in history, is that it has put in place a tax regime that is incredibly attractive for entrepreneurs who come here, particularly from the United States. It is the only place that I know of on planet Earth. Actually, probably in the universe, because I think if you go to Mars, you still have to pay the federal government taxes. It's the only place where you don't have to pay the federal government of the United States any taxes. And that's a big deal. And the Puerto Rican government has created a regime on money that you generate in Puerto Rico from, in a sense, from importing, money that comes into Puerto Rico, from outside of Puerto Rico, from services you provide here. The tax rate is 4% to a company set up to do that. Any distributions from that company to shareholders who live in Puerto Rico is taxed to them at 0%. All capital gains, short-term and long-term, are taxed at 0%. So if you found a company here and you take it public, your capital gain is taxed at 0%. All of that is pretty unique. It's the only place in the world where an American can do that. And it's phenomenally attractive. It's almost the tax rates in an ideal society that I would project, a laissez-faire capitalist society. So it's sad that Puerto Ricans don't enjoy these tax breaks, that you have to come to Puerto Rico to enjoy them. And I would like to see all of Puerto Rico have these kind of taxes. But, you know, I'll take it, right, as somebody who comes from the United States and can set up a business here that is taxed at these low rates. It's a real ideal situation for many entrepreneurs in any technology company, or many technology companies, but many other businesses as well. The way to do that is to be entrepreneurial to the island. The way to do that is to create jobs. The way to do that is to create a regulatory tax environment that encourages wealth creation and encourages job creation. The way to do that is to shrink government so that it does only what it's supposed to do, which is protect individual rights. You know, currently in Puerto Rico, a third of all employed people work for the government. That is insanity. That is a recipe for poverty. What blockchain can do is I think blockchain can help privatize government services. It can start taking away all the stuff that government does and bring it into the public sector. We can start working with the Puerto Rican government to unload all the things that they do that they shouldn't do and don't do well and do incompetently and bring into the private sector in order to do that. And if we do that, we have a regulatory environment in Puerto Rico and we lower taxes for the Puerto Ricans and we make it easy for them to create jobs. I'm not worried about social impact. The fact is that a billion people have come out of poverty in the last 30 years. A billion people. Poverty rates in the world, extreme poverty rates in the world have dropped from 30% to 9% in the last 30 years. Not one person came out of poverty because of people trying to impact social impact. Not one person came out of poverty because of charity because of nonprofits because of foreign aid because of community service. Not one person, but a billion people came out because of business because of job creation because of profit seeking greedy entrepreneurs trying to make money and employing people and creating products in order to do that. That is how you bring people out of poverty. You bring people, and Adam Smith understood this 250 years ago and the name of the game is capitalism. The name of the game is free markets and we need to stop all this googly-gar about nonprofits and helping the community. We want to help the community bring capitalism to the community, bring free markets, bring entrepreneurship, let's make money. Well the media is clueless. The media really doesn't know how the world works and has no clue and doesn't know where to look. It views somehow entrepreneurs as the enemy. They're so obsessed with wealth inequality. Who cares about wealth inequality? Why is wealth inequality an issue? Why do I care how much money you make? I care how much money I make. I care whether I have upward mobility. Poor people shouldn't care about how much money I make. They should care about their own ability to rise up from poverty. And the media has no conception of this. They have demonized wealth. They've been doing it for 150 years at least since the mud rockers of the late 19th century. They've been demonizing progress. They would like us to stagnate and look they're always looking for sensation. They're always looking for sensationalism. Of course they don't understand technology. They've never understood technology. They've always been behind the curve as technology has emerged. So yes, you're not going to get an objective. You're not going to get a real perspective on anything really. When I read The New York Times on stuff I know Israel let's say or finance. I'm a finance professor in the previous life. So finance. 80% of what they say is just not true. It's just BS. And then I think, okay this is the stuff I know. My assumption is when I read any newspaper today almost any newspaper, that 80% of everything I read is BS. They've lost the ability to be objective. They don't even believe in objectivity anymore. They're not taught to be objective in journalism schools. So I think the media is a mess. It's a disaster. And I think it has to do with the philosophy of the culture. The culture itself has lost the belief in objectivity. It's lost the belief in truth. According to both left and right we live in a post-truth era. Well, that's a disaster if that's true. So everything I know, everything of value is based on the idea that reality exists and truth is there and that we as human beings have the capacity to discover that truth. So the media is a reflection of the culture and the culture is in bad bad shape. Welcome Chairman of the Iron Man Institute and host of the Iran Brook show and you're watching Decentric Media.


Listen in because five by five training can cause injuries and pain. Our first caller is Andrew from New York. Hey, what's up, Andrew? How can we help you? Hey guys, thanks for taking my call today. You got it, man. Yeah. I got my question for you is regarding intensity. Uh, before I ask, I'll give you a little background. So I've been lifting consistently for about 20 years, but also did quite a bit of running over those years. For the past three years, I've stopped running all together to focus on building muscle and since focusing on building muscle, I've been running, you know, a number of different programs. And what I'm finding is I'll start each program with moderate intensity in week one, and then I'll be increasing intensity throughout the program. And by around week four, I feel like I'm making good progress, but start to feel some pain in my joints. And the pain isn't so bad that I couldn't continue with the program. But what I usually do is just hop to the next program to be safe. Uh, but what I'm feeling is I could be, uh, building some more muscle if I continued beyond week four of the program. At the time I submitted the question, I was on week four of a modified five by five type program, making some really good progress. And again, starting to feel some pain in my shoulders and hips. My question for you guys is, is it normal to start feeling a little bit of moderate pain as you progress throughout a program and build intensity, or, uh, if not, I'd be interested in your recommendation on how to fix this problem. Yeah, good question. Yeah.  No, you know, here's the deal. This is, this is actually very common. This wall, this is the one, um, I love five by five routines, right? Uh, and, and obviously that looks very similar to our first phase of maps and a ball, but there's a reason why we phase you out of that after, uh, four weeks. So, um, that's what, that's the, the flaw I think in running a five by five type of routine consistently. Cause some people will make the case. It's a great routine just to continue on. And you build a lot of muscle, a lot of strength. Uh, but this is exactly what I would see happen with clients is if I kept them in this five by five type of a phase, uh, for longer than about four or five weeks, this is the most common feedback that I would get from my clients is they would start to feel, you know, some achiness in their knees and their elbows and sometimes their hips. And, uh, we would phase them into another team. And this is part of why, um, we write the, the, the maps programs like this, where we don't keep you in that phase much longer than three to four weeks. Andrew, Andrew, one of the, one of the reasons why this happens isn't necessarily because a five by five program isn't effective or somehow flawed in terms of, you know, building muscle and strength. It's really effective at building muscle and strength. But here's what happens, right? You do the same movements over and over again. So you're limited on your movements. Now here's the plus side of that. The skill of strength, uh, improves traumatic tremendously. So you're doing a lot of squatting, a lot of deadlift, a lot of press, you know, pressing, you're practicing them often and you're going to get really strong at them. And because you get really strong at them, you build a lot of muscle, but then the, the weak, the weak links start to show themselves a little bit and you need to strengthen and work on the supporting structures in order to support this newfound strength and muscle.  It starts to add up and you start to feel the pain in the joints and, uh, you know, the areas where the stability may be lacking a little bit. So this is one reason why mobility work is so important. Now I will caution you don't do mobility work and then stop just because you feel better when you're feeling the pain. That's already now you're kind of a little too late.  Now I feel better. Now I can jump back on.   So you got, and I know mobility, you know, when we do mobility work and correctional work, well, I'm not adding a lot of weight to the bar. I don't seem to be building a lot of muscle. But if you really do, if you really look at it long term, you end up with more strength and more muscle because you don't run into these problems that you're running into. So if you're doing, let's say a four day a week, five by five type of routine, I would do concentrated mobility work at least twice a week. And then on the other days priming before your workouts proper priming. Yeah, that was the direction I was going to go as well. However, I was going to ask you to like if you were to kind of transition to a different program, what that looked like. Cause one thing too that I would consider is just moving in different planes and directions. So that's, that's really what you're trying to accomplish while doing these mobility moves is still reinforcing, you know, that basically being able to keep everything stable around the joints and in those secondary muscles to get strengthened up to be able to contribute and maintain the joints positioning as you're increasing the amount of force production. Because as you're going through five by five, as you realize, you get a lot stronger and you get a lot stronger in that direction.  And then, you know, this is where a lot of injuries result. You guys got to remember that we have this rapidly growing audience, especially on the YouTube channel of flux of new people that are listening every single day. And this is a perfect opportunity to talk about why we wrote the programs the way we did. And in the order that we did, like a common question is, you know, why not maps anabolic forever? Or why not why not maps aesthetic right after maps anabolic? Like, we wrote them in this order for a reason for this exact reason right here. So you have somebody who is running a five by five type routine, which is very similar to like a maps anabolic type of philosophy, right? The big lifts, you're mostly in the sagittal plane. Incredible foundational program to build muscle and strength and your metabolism. That's why anabolic is the first one. But when we talked about what the second program would be, this is the reason why is because, yes, that program is incredible for doing all those things. But then the limiting factor is exactly what we're addressing right now, which that is why maps performance is what we thought was the most ideal follow up program to maps. And I was going to just keep hitting walls. Yeah. And one more thing, Andrew, is that muscles get stronger, faster than ligaments and tendons in connective tissue do. Okay. So if you add 30 pounds to a lift, the connective tissue and the ligaments and all the supporting structures don't get as don't gain that same strength at the same speed or time. It takes a little bit longer to build that type of strength. So if you're seeing these rapid strength gains and you're not focusing on, you know, good technique, form, mobility, lateral movement, stability and allowing these connective tissues kind of catch up a little bit, you'll start to run into a lot of these problems. I love strength with my workouts. I absolutely love it. I run to the exact same problem you're talking about every single I would run into this often where, okay, here we go. Squats, I'm getting near my all time best.  Oh, there goes my SI joint and starting to feel it again. And so unless you want to keep doing this back and forth type of thing, you got to make mobility and, you know, a priority and you got to train in other planes. So I would recommend Andrew and I don't know what you're doing now, but if you don't have maps performance, that would be the program I would do 100 percent. And you're not going to lose gains, by the way, you're going to get more gains because now you're reinforcing a lot of those weak areas to give the man the program. Does that make sense? Andrew, do you have maps performance? I do. I picked up the RGB bundle and I did run performance earlier this year. I loved it. Is that something I should come back to? Yes, I would do it after every two or three months, like heavy strength muscle building cycle and then come right back to your yeah, your strength cycle. Well, I mean, if he's got the RGB, then what's beautiful is I would I would run it in that order. So it was designed to go red, green, black. So just over and over again. Yeah, keep running over and if you still and if you if you're getting tremendous value from performance in the mobility days, this is where we all this is also why we have the show and why we have the forum is to help people modify. So if this is like a consistent problem with you, there is nothing that says you can't when you get into anabolic or aesthetic, take take things from the mobility days and build those into the program. Swap out the trigger sessions or the focus session for mobility days. Right. Nothing wrong with that. And that that a lot of times that's what clients will find is they got so much value from performance in the mobility days that they're like, Adam, is there anything wrong with me putting that in my trigger days or my focus days on those other programs and say, absolutely not. That's why we teach it this way so people can modify it for their lifestyle. So I would recommend that you you build those mobility days into the other programs, even though we didn't do it for you. Now, Andrew, you said your number one goal is to build right now. Are you at all interested in cutting at any point? I've actually never gone on a cut. I consider myself a hard gainer. So I'm always trying to be in a surplus. You know, I would like to continue to build at this point. Okay. And here's why I asked that. Okay. I was guessing that that's what you were going to say. So there's a psychological piece here that we need to talk about, right?  And I if I could, I would probably want to be in a bulk ish most of the time, just psychologically speaking. But I think that there's real value in going in a very, very mild cut when you're training in a program that is more like maps performance or something mobility focused, not necessarily because the mild cut or maybe even maintenance is great for those goals, but rather when I know that my calories are slightly low, I'm less concerned about the fact that I'm not lifting as much on the bar. Does that make sense? That definitely makes sense. Not only that, but also if you're getting these signals from your body that are telling you that you're achy like this, one of the one of the quick ways that actually a lot of times will help clients is just putting them in a calorie deficit for a week or two because inflammation got inflammation will go down right away, right? If you're in a surplus all the time and you're lifting heavy all the time, that's very, very common and just simply actually aside from programming, let's say we stayed in the same program, a lot of times I'll take a client who's maybe loving the program and the results from it and say, hey, let's actually just do a little mini cut for a week or two. Let's drop your calories below maintenance and follow, keep following the program. Who cares if the weight goes down strength wise a little bit. I'm not worried about that, but talk to me about how your aches and pains feel and sometimes that alone will actually start to eliminate the pain.  In fact, here's I'm going to be more specific. When you do mass performance, I want you to eat at maintenance or slightly below maintenance or slightly above maintenance, kind of hover around there, get out of the bulk and go maintenance slightly below and then every once in a while go slightly above.  You're not worrying about the weight too much. Inflammation is going to come down when you're done with mass performance, everything feels good. The lateral movement feels good. Rotational movement feels good. Mobility, you know, feels good. Then you go into like maps aesthetic, throw the bulk on, watch how great your body responds. That sounds like a good plan. Do you mind if I have one follow up question? Yeah, sure. So I actually did decide to continue on with a five by five after I submitted the question and strained my pec pretty bad. So I'll be rehabbing for the next few weeks. Once I get back into lifting, would you have any recommendations for how I might modify performance with, you know, to strengthen my chest again? I'm sure I'll have some weakness there. Yeah, I would just listen to your body. So follow the program and go much lighter with the exercises that you need to and just focus on range of motion and just listen to your body. That's that that would be the best advice that I could give. You said it's a strain, right? Not not like a tear. Yeah, not torn from the tendon, just a strain. Yeah. And I tell you, look, what we're saying is obviously true, right? If you don't really incorporate, you know, different planes of movement and mobility, you're going to make gains and you're going to lose gains because of what just happened. You're going to keep doing this back and forth.   Like it's much better. It's almost like the, you know, the tortoise versus the hair fable, right? The tortoise wins the race because they're consistent and the the hair loses because they go real fast and they stop and kind of lose their perspective. I might pull some of the barbell stuff out and replace it with dumbbells. Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah, pull the bar, pull the barbell, pressing stuff out and and just replace it with dumbbells. That'll be that'll help you out. Hey, thanks guys. I really appreciate the advice there. No problem, man. Thanks for calling in. Yep. Thank you guys. Thanks. Yeah, that's a boy. That's a real comment. This I mean, that's me. Well, this is why I wanted I wanted you guys to address like you got to remember that, right? There's right now there's probably 10,000 people that have never heard us talk about our programs or whatever about that. And we have no interest in getting somebody great results in a short period of time and then forgetting about them. Right. Our interest is great results all the time. We want lifelong. Keep thinking ahead. Yes, like I don't like it's OK, great. You got great results in two months and then you hurt yourself like that's not what I'm looking for. I want people to feel good and move through different planes and continue to progress forever. And really with minimal plateaus or injuries or none would be ideal. Well, you have to know, too, like performance is one of our programs that is grossly underrated because if you're somebody who's focused on mainly strength and the way you look, you tend to go like, ah, I like anabolic or aesthetic or these other. And you and you skip that program. But there is a there's a very specific reason why we made it the second program is because exactly this is because there is there's a large portion of our clientele that would be pursuing these goals and they would neglect that type of programming. And we know that's what's what should be inserted right there for a majority of it highlights, you know, then what's neglected in your current program. And most people that are in the gym, like just won't, you know, come up with a lot of these type of movements in their routine because it really goes outside of that perspective. Yeah, and I'll tell you, I'll be honest with you, if I had to pick and this is not true, this is, you know, general, right? But if I had to pick one maps program, you got to run over and over that would that would benefit the majority of the people watching and listening, regardless of their goal, cutting, bulking, looking good. And I'm talking long term, it'd be maps performing. Yeah. And if you had to stay in one forever, that's it. If you had to stay in one of our programs forever, you were probably the safest running that one the longest with the most consistent long term. Yes. Yes, totally.


Oscar Romeo for India Sierra Sierra. This is for uniform man, India Tango Uniform. For uniform man, India Tango Uniform, calling Oscar Romeo for India Sierra Sierra. This is for uniform man, India Tango Uniform, calling and listening over. Oscar Romeo for India Sierra Sierra. Oscar Romeo for India Sierra Sierra. This is for uniform man, India Tango Uniform. For uniform man, India Tango Uniform, calling. This is for uniform man, India Tango Uniform, calling and listening over. Oskar Omio for India Sierra Sierra, this four uniform man, India Dango Uniform. Hello Greg, very nice to hear you. You are a bit in the noise, but I think the signal will improve as you take over the orbit. So I didn't make back to you to establish the contact and then we pass it on to our students. Or for ISS for UNIDU. Good morning. You are also 5'9 at ITU headquarters at Geneva. Operator is Hamadun, HB9, EHT. Over. You are also 5'9 at ITU headquarters. Operator, Hamadun, Eco Hotel Dango. Over. Over. No, I think it is better. Can we stay a bit here? Greg, this is for UNIDU. Let's try one smaller than this channel before we switch on. Over. Yeah, for UNIDU here, returning. We copy you very well. Do you copy us now? Oscar Romeo, for India Sierra Sierra, for UNIDU. Let's reach to the backup channel. Over. Yeah, I hear you now. I hear you. This is for UNIDU. Do you hear me? Over. Or for ISS, for UNIDU. Do you copy us now? Okay, let's go on. Miss Gaela, do mobile phones work in space? Over. My name is Adriano. How do you wash yourself on the ISS? Over. Every other day, I actually get a wet towel that has a little soap in it and I just kind of scrub myself down. Over. Hello, my name is Edward. Can you create a gravitational field on the ISS as you'd be on Earth? Over. Just a little bit now. When you turn those edges on, you feel a tiny bit of pressure on the ISS. Over. My name is Santiago. What were your motivations to become an astronaut? Over. My name's Anna. Can you see the Great Wall of China from where you are? Over. See it. I've looked for it once or twice, but it's always this cloud. And by crew base, German astronaut Alex Gerst and I, we're gonna look for it this weekend because we both wanna take a picture of it. Over. Hi, my name is Cecilia. Do you feel isolated in space? Over. You see most of the world's populations come up here and I feel really connected. It's kind of a peace deal. It's over. Hi, my name's Gabrielle. At what speed are you traveling right now? Over. We're going 28,000 kilometers per hour. So, we only have nine minutes of free fly over here in school there and then I'll be over the horizon. Over. Hi, my name is Alina. Are there any women with you at the ISS? Over. Right now there's only three of us up here. One in Russia and one in German and myself in the United States. But that's sweet. Two spaces will dock and we will get three new folks and one of them is a Russian woman, maybe Alina Serova. We're really excited to have her up here with us. Over. Hi, my name is Sebastian. What do you do in your free time? Over. Hey, Sebastian. We don't get a whole lot of free time but we do get the time off on the weekends and I try to talk to my family if I can and usually though we spend our free time just goofing around and wait with this or looking out the window back to the Earth whether it's day or night it's always a beautiful sight. Over. Hi, my name is Alejandro. How do you come back to Earth after a mission? Over. After a mission, we climb into our Soyuz Station which is built in Russia at very tight. It can only fit three people and just barely you have to kind of curl up and fit inside of it and then we will dock to the station we'll fire our engines with a little bit of a brachy burn and then in about an hour we'll be back on Earth. Over. Hi, my name is Antoine. How long have you already been in space? Over. Or for our service 41-IDU we are getting to the end of the window, unfortunately. Let's try once more. Hi, my name is Hugo. What is the effective absence of gravity on your body? Over. Well, overall, it's actually really fun. The effect of my body is my bones improve their density of my bloodstreams and so I do a lot of counterfeits to try to prevent that from happening. Over. Hi, my name is Morgan. How do you communicate with your family? Over. Name is Anastasia. Do you talk also with radio amateurs only with schools? Over. Okay, Greg, we can barely copy you now. Get to once more. My name is Diane. Can you see the ozone layer around the Earth? Over. Hi, my name is Marcin. What do you feel while you're seeing sunrises and the sunset more than once per day? Over. Okay, Greg. Thank you all. This is 41ITU. I think we have to conclude. You are really getting to the horizon here. Thank you very much for this great contact and probably we'll have another one to complete with the context. 73 and all the best from all the crews here. Bye-bye.


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Photo Count, and welcome back to the channel. We are back after a couple of days off. I know the content has slowed down inside of FIVA 22, but I want to talk about that today in this video and look forward into this week. Of course, as we have the Silver Star Series promo, we didn't get the release of Prime Icon moments. EA held those back, and just talk about this game in the market right now in general as well. We did have a pretty big SBC yesterday in the Prime Icon upgrade pack, but I still think, and you know, we'll talk about Silver Stars here for a second, I still think there's a lot of grindable content in this game right now, which is why I still think that this is, Silver Star Series is a W promo. It's just a different W, and we have to adjust our perspective a little bit from what we're used to having our focus on, building our main squads, right? We're always used to getting new promo cards every single week to build out our main teams to get the highest rated players possible, SBCs, objectives, and promo cards and teams, where now EA is kind of having us focus on a different part of the game for other game modes, and of course, a lot of us aren't used to that, and we don't entirely like that. So again, we have to talk about that different perspective, but there's a lot to grind right now, and let's be honest, right? We used to get non-promo weeks in older FIFAs where there was legit like zero content. So having this sort of stuff here, 74 rated Pugba, KDB, and upcoming Marco Royce, there's still some Ws to be taken from this, and there's a lot of menu grind that you can put in right now. So I'm gonna talk about that a little bit today, share some more thoughts about Silver Stars as we head into this week and today on Monday, and of course, just kind of catch up on the market and no prime icon moments, of course, many of the matches that are out right now, some moves that I actually made in the short term to maybe flip some cards after some market movements yesterday because of the Cyprian card that was dropped, like this Kakarai, Genduzi, those are both down. And I think that today, after the week and the rewards timeframe, you'll see some of these cards that went down potentially go back up in price a little bit because again, what we see after week and the rewards is people going out and buying cards for the week and the team. And I think that there's enough people that are still not super satisfied with this promo that Silver Star series and everybody being focused on Silver Stars won't hurt that. So there's a lot to talk about in today's video.  So if you're enjoying the videos on the channel, make sure to hit thumbs up. And of course, subscribe if you are new. So let's talk about this promo just a little bit more because I know you've already heard so many people talk about Silver Stars. You've thought it through yourself. We are on the, what, third day of this promo, I guess, fourth day, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, fourth day of this promo. And today we are gonna be getting the Powerhouse Silvers. We've had Breath Silvers, Speedsters, Fresh Silvers, and today's Powerhouse. Now, I don't know, I mean, off the top of my head and looking back through a couple of the leaks, I'm not sure who is gonna be as a part of the Monday Silver players from today. I feel like it might be a step back, to be completely honest because people value pace in this game so much. And what we've had recently on the weekend is just a lot of pace. We've had Renier, we had Ilanga with 95 pace, right? Everybody's loving this Ilanga and the Polpogba. The Cyprian yesterday was a huge W. The Ryan Cherokee and the Malquee that were in objectives, those cards are really great as well, but a lot of those guys have pace, right? Or they got the five star, five star. We had the Leech Centerback card, which is really good. So again, from a grindability standpoint, there's tons of cards, there's tons of cards out right now to go out and grind. Oh yeah, we had this Henry guy too, right? So there's just a ton to grind right now in the Silver Gauntlet. Like that's the good part of the Silver Promo, but I know for some people, it feels like it's a waste, right? Why am I gonna go out and grind matches and grind SBCs to get these Silver cards to put in a team that I'm gonna use like once a week to get a Silver Stars player? Well, I would have to imagine EA doesn't do a lot of this stuff just for a one-off chance. I would imagine that, especially as we head into the later parts of this year, maybe they're gonna try to keep Silver Stars more involved. So that's why I'm not riding off this week of Silver Stars series and saying, I'm not doing any of the content. I'm gonna do Pogba, I'm gonna do Ilanga, maybe Cyprian, right? I'm gonna grind some of these objectives out because they're not that hard to do. They're like normal Silver Stars players, right? Win five, triple-double, score two goals per match using a midfielder in three separate games. You can do it in squad battles. Or I think some of these are, say, or in rivals, I think as well, but mostly it's just squad battles, like for the Maokwits, all squad battles. So that's pretty easy. I know that squad battles is not that fun of a grind for some people, but it's not that bad of a grind. It's really not. Just a few games to get some cool cards. And I wanna make sure that I have a decent enough Silver team that if EA continues to require Silver stuff later on this year, like if they give out sweet extra rewards in Weekendly during Team of the Season for playing a few games of the Silver squad, or like we expect later on this week, the Silver Star Weekendly plus awards where they will give you more player picks, red picks from Weekendly rewards if you play and win a certain amount of games with Silver teams, right? I think that is something I wanna make sure I have cards ready to go and have a club that can support that if those objectives and if those requirements are put out in the future. So that's kind of my thought process behind this. And again, like I said at the beginning of the video, we have to of course just think back to the past couple of years of FIFA where on non promo weeks, we would literally have nothing. Maybe an SBC or two, a player SBC or here or there. And now we have content every single day. And again, it just requires a little bit of a shift in perspective. And instead of focusing on our main team, kind of focusing on these Silver cards and like a 74 rated Pogba, like it is cool, right? I can't say that it's not, it is cool. Now there's like a Marco Royce. I think that's one of the next flashbacks for a Silver card that we should be having soon. Royce Pogba and KDB were the biggest names lead for that. I don't think Royce will be out today as a powerhouse, but maybe in the next couple of days as this promo kind of simmers down into the midweek, probably a loading screen Wednesday, Thursday, and then back into it with a big time promo on Friday. That's kind of how I think this week is gonna play out just from a high level perspective, speaking that out there right now. One more thing on the menu grind at the moment. We have some upgrade packs here that are very interesting. A Silver stars player pick. Okay, it's like a Gable pack for Silvers. It's cheap, 71 to 74 triple upgrade is kind of nice. I guess, you know, if you're doing BPM, this is incredible for BPM, and then grinding into league SBCs. And that's where a lot of the grind is right now. You know, BPM, league SBCs, Silvers are like plentiful through this pack. Not every Silver is 71 to 74 rated, so you might have to go and find a couple other ones, but this is a very nice upgrade pack. And this 81 double requiring all Silvers is kind of cool as well. Now the only thing I don't like about it is of course it's a limited repeatable, so you can only do it 10 times, but it is what it is, right? You can go and do this with all the rare Silvers that you might have stocked up in your club that don't go for anything that are maybe untradable from packs that you've saved up this year. Like I've probably got plenty, especially now that my Silver team has gone on a makeover, right? My entire Silver team has been completely revamped. And now I have all these Silver rare cards that are in my club, that especially if they're not in any leagues that have league SBCs, which I'm knowing very carefully that I need to be careful with the cards that I put in here.  I don't know about Belgium, maybe I'll not put him in. Oh, I have this guy in so rare. Oh, I just realized, okay, anyways, I think this SBC is kind of a W30 chemistry. Yes, you have a 72 overall rating, which I actually just saw. So that 71 to 74 upgrade is a nice grind into the 81 plus double. Whether you're doing league upgrade SBCs, league SBCs, right here, these guys, or if you're grinding the 81 plus, there is stuff to grind with silver content on the menus because you can get this stuff and save it for whatever promo is next. Now, that being said, we're gonna talk about this a lot more as the week goes on. Then whatever big time promo is next after Silver Star series is over, there's gonna be so much pack supply right away because everybody's gonna have saved up packs waiting to rip, because right now there's like nothing in packs.  Stop trying to make something a W out of this that is an L. I think that since there's grindable content in what EA definitely wants to be a quieter week of content on FIFA, I still kind of view it as a W. It's just different. Again, it's all about your perspective, right? And I'm choosing to have my perspective on a positive side note saying that these are really interesting and cool cards to collect, put in my club, and I'll use them a little bit for objectives later on throughout this year. That's kind of, again, how did I'm looking at it? And we respect it from EA Sports. So let's talk about something that was withheld from us though. Yesterday, we thought we were getting prime icon moments. They're searchable on the web app. Are they even searchable here on the market? 97 Meridana, okay, they're not searchable here on the transfer market on console yet. But I was thinking about this a little bit too today and I was just saying, it really makes sense that EA is not dropping icon moments right now because there's literally nothing in packs. And I don't know if, especially with this week where people are probably disengaged and disheartened by how the content is on FIFA after we've had multiple, multiple weeks of just insane and sane content with Team of the Year, Future Stars, and then last week wrote to the final, I think that if EA just put icon moments in packs that wouldn't make them as much money as it maybe could if they put icon moments in packs. This next weekend when they run probably what we expect to be a full out normal promo week with special cards in packs that are not silver cards like higher rated ones, meta power curve, boosting type of cards. And then they would be able to sell even more packs with those icon moments coming out in waves over the next couple of weeks for that. So I mean, it makes sense, right? Cause right now everything is focused on objectives and SBCs. And when EA does this kind of stuff they usually don't put cards in packs especially icon moments cards, they're right. You know, people know they're so hard to pack regardless. They, it just makes sense why EA is not putting them in. It sucks cause I would have loved to see them on the market and that would have spiced them things up trading wise this week for sure. But I also understand it from EA's point of view. I'd be really surprised if they dropped any of those cards in the mid week like from Monday to Thursday this week. I really think it'd be a Friday, Saturday, Sunday type thing cause that's just like what EA has kind of made now is like pack days, right? Where they run lighting rounds and stuff like that. So it does make sense for why we didn't get prime icon moments even though it is a little bit of a bummer. And then of course things that I have not seen completely yet in the past couple of days are the man of the matches, right? Two weeks in a row now with man of the match cards, W from EA Sports, absolute W, a 93 Conte. Yes, these cards are decently rare right now and they're gonna be rare because we do not have unlike last week's man of the match cards like the Bala and stuff like that. Those cards underwent lighting rounds that were released of course with the road to the final promo that was out. These man of the match cards that we have are not going to endure any lighting rounds over their time or stay in packs which makes them a very, very interesting type of card for a potential investment. It's gonna make them very rare. So we're gonna have to keep an eye on these cards of course as they're out of packs. Now EA is probably gonna mess up with these again like they did last week with the Fanta man of the matches. I don't know if you guys noticed this or not but last week, these cards were in packs for an extra day, Debala and Ko as we'll call them Debala, Lukaku, those cards, they were in packs until Saturday and they were actually supposed to go out of packs on Friday with road to the final. We kinda did some backtracking and look back and found that on the menus it said they were gonna leave at the exact same time as road to the finals did and they ended up not doing that. So a bit of an L for me at sports but we'll have to keep an eye on that for the current man of the matches that are out because that might happen again. But these cards are gonna be pretty rare and I think we're gonna have more man of the match cards coming in to the game later on this week because we have some more cup matches this week. We have EFL, all the top five leagues have some cup games coming on this next week. So I would expect to see the Fanta man of the match cards designs come back out. I really hope that we get Dynamics. They added Dynamics a little bit later on for guys like DiBala and for Lukaku. For these ones that we have right now like Conte and Van Dyke and Felix those are all playing in the Champions League. So I hope that EA sports would be able to throw Dynamics on these cards. I don't know but I really hope that they are able to do that because Dynamics just make a card 10 times better as you guys know. So that's kind of the one thing we've been on a man of the match role especially with some of these man of the matches that have live cards, right? That's the big thing we're watching on the weekends is a guy like Van Dyke, right? Got a 91 rated man of the match and man of the matches upgrade the headliner card. So the headliner VVD went up from a 91 to a 92 of course cause he does have the win streak which again EA, the filters in here are messed up. I can't find the headliner streak filter. So why when I search for Van Dyke I have to search special and I have to go like minimum by now like 600K and I think this card is like 790 or something. 777, so it's just, it's a pain right there but again they do upgrade the live cards like the headliners and the ones to watch it. So just be careful of who's playing really well this next week. That could have some market impact especially on a slower week. People will be very quick to invest in that stuff if they see a player perform very well. Now for the rest of the market like I mentioned road to the final cards are still at the freaking moon. I've got Gareth Bales. I have a couple of them at like 215 that I was trying to trade today but I still have a bunch of them that I bought at like 200,000 coins, 195, 200K. I've got some Tolisos that I bought in the 150 to 160 range which was even a little bit high. I have some, I bought a Llarente today at 688. He was down low. I bought some French midfielders because of the Cyprian. I have Quadrado still and I have some Daener. I really wish I would have bought some more Daener. I think I bought like five of him or seven of him at 60K and the guy's like 100,000 coins. It's ridiculous how much some of these road to the final cards just continue to rise up in price. But again, that's the theme and everybody's flexing these profits on Twitter. Oh my goodness, if you join the Patreon if you bought road to the final cards. Well, I think basically everybody this last week bought road to the final cards but since the content has been so quiet and there's not as much going on it just pushes these cards up even higher. Live upgrading cards, rare items that didn't have a very high pack weight last week. And of course, the content this week has been very quiet. So all of those things together really just made this almost an impossible not type of scenario where these cards would not rise out of pack. So a lot of people are just banking on these items right now. And I totally understand that it's a big time GG. I'm not really looking to sell these just yet. And it's gonna be kind of nice because what we're gonna end up having is a slow week of content this week heading into the first week of March and then next week, depending on what our promo is this Friday on the 4th of March it's gonna be very interesting because next week, Tuesday, Wednesday is when we have Champions League games again and there are upgrades on the line. Some double upgrades on the line here for like Liverpool, right? And Bayern Munich as well. If they win this game since their games were played before February what was it, 18th or something like that? Yeah, February 18th since those games were played back here or sorry back here in the 22nd and 23rd for a few of these cards or sorry, no, 15, 16, 15, 16th these games didn't count towards the upgrades. So again, like a card like Mane if they win and then okay they would go on the next round as well as their second leg win. That's gonna be a plus two for that item, right? Potential plus twos on a guy like Kempembe versus Real Madrid. Potential plus two on a quadrado on a Tolisso. So there's a lot of potential with Real Mars as well. There's a lot of potential for some big upgrades with these road to the finals. So if you're holding onto some of these if you feel like the prices have risen up so much that you're just fine taking the cash like the denier card is so high up, right? That just seems like to me almost one that I would consider taking the cash on especially if he does it 100K and then Tolisso as well for a card that it was 150K and is now 200,000 coins. I understand that he's French, I understand that he's Bayern but he's three star, three star, he is Hewlett Gang and he's an interesting card and Bayern could go far but this is just the type of item that is tempting me to take the cash as there's so many other French meta midfielders that are in this game that maybe today after rewards on a Monday I would look to cash a few of those cards out just from my opinion. We'll see. It's up to you though, right? It depends on how many coins you have how liquid you wanna be heading into this week. Of course there doesn't look like there's gonna be a ton of crazy price movements this week which is actually a W for trading on the market but also it's a slight bit difficult to trade on the market because everything just seems to be so high in price, right? Even as I take a look at some of the future stars items on the game like the prices are just they're just outrageously high for some of these cards. Gravenbridge is almost like 900,000 coins. Even some of the lower tier future stars and other promo items just continue to go up in price. Vlahovic is like, is he 600K? Like that is, he is, okay, sorry, not 600K, 400K. I was looking at different cards price. This guy has flown, he's exploded, right? Smith Row is way up in price as a future stars card. So all of your rare out of packs promo cards are just flying and that's again just because people are going out and buying other cards for their teams instead of going out and buying cards from like a new promo team because all the stuff right now is based around silver. So again, it's just a very interesting part of the market. Again, after like a month and a month and a half of just insane content, bang, bang, bang promos after promo, after sick content, this is like lowering the bar and putting the perspective on silver players which is so very interesting. But I know it's different, right? And it's way better than having no content on a non promo week as EA used to do. Now speaking of yesterday, I have talked about this just a little bit at the end of the video is the fodder situation. Like everything is high on the market and now including SPC fodder.  So if you went in on fodder this weekend seeing that it went a little bit low knowing that we had icon upgrade packs still out there, that was a really, really good buy. This stuff is flying. Oh my goodness. Terstegen is 67K. Fodder is literally approaching the moon again, man. Look at this, 54K yesterday. This is like the most expensive that Terstegen has been all year long. His peaks have been like 60K and he's 67,000 coins. What's his price range, 90? Yeah, fodder is at the moon. Fodder is at the moon at the moment and it might even go past the moon. Depending on what other content comes out this week because again, right now, if you're like somebody who's not about this silver promo, then what are you gonna be doing? Maybe you're doing the icon upgrade, SBC. Maybe you're just taking a week off of FIFA in general or whatever it is. It just, the player pick that is still here and available and that prime icon upgrade, right? I'm even considering this six days out, 84, 86, 87 squads, it's three squads so it just seems easy and that's why so many people when it did this SBC yesterday, it is non-repeatable. Even I'm considering it, right? I've got a dupe, Benzema and Suarez in my unassigned so I'm even thinking about it. So yeah, that was the big piece of content yesterday that kind of made people happy because it was like, hey, we're back on track with content that is not just for silvers, right? So that was kind of interesting to see as well. I think we'll have more SBCs like that throughout this week. It's still gonna seem like a slow week of content but when we have an icon upgrade like that that gets people pretty interested in the non-silver part of this game. So I'm curious to see again what happens to week of rewards. Again, like I mentioned, I bought a few cards because of the Cyprian that came out. Genduzi was like 340,000 coins and I think he's still a little bit low at the moment. I was picking these up at like 300 and 305. Yeah, so he used to like 305. So I'm just gonna hope and see that maybe this Genduzi bounces back today after rewards, maybe some of these other cards, but again, he has only four pages to 330, so I don't mind that. But if there was stuff that dropped yesterday or especially like as you're watching this video, again, Mondays are still times where people go out and buy cards for their teams and I still think that even though the right now a lot of stuff in this game is based around the silvers and a lot of that hype with those objectives and SBCs, there's still people out there, they're gonna be buying cards for their team and upgrading that stuff after they get their week of rewards, especially dependent on maybe their red picks and however many coins they get back from those rewards. People go out and they try to upgrade their main team from that. So I would still watch a lot of the market today is I think you could see some road to the finals go higher in price. You could see some of those man of the matches get supplied and then rebound.  So I'm not in a hurry to sell anything this week. I'm really not. I'm taking it slow, nice profits. Again, the road to the final upgrades just played into the cards advantage and their prices rising, right? The Havertz, I sold all of mine but he's 260K, you know, the Vardy is up in price. It's just everything is up, right? Because a lot of people don't think this promo is very good and I do understand why. I do understand why. I trust me, we've said it. So hopefully throughout this week we still get some pretty good content to talk about. Other than that, we're just gonna be grinding the market honestly. I'm gonna be grinding objectives and SBCs but there's still gonna be ways where you can trade, fluctuation trade and maybe we'll look a little bit closer this week and add some methods to do that during the week if you're like, Nate, I don't wanna do this stuff or I've done all the ones I wanna do and I still wanna make some coins, how can we do that? So we'll take a look at some maybe fluctuation methods and parts of the market that you might be able to hone in on specifically with some trading related content here this week. So let me know what you guys think down below again in the comments. There's just, this content is just different, right? It's really, that's what it is and people are surprised, it's not the normal and that kind of puts some people off, I get it.  This promo for you is not good because there's really nothing in packs to open. There is nothing in packs except for Man of the Match Cards to open packs for right now at the moment. So that's kind of what's going on right now on FIFA 22 Ultimate Team. I don't know what you guys think but let me know down in the comments. If you did enjoy this video, smash the thumbs up on it and of course, subscribe. If you are new, it's been Nate the Foot Account and I'll catch you guys later. Peace out.