 Next question is from Rari Walnitz. I just turned 50 this year and I'm an experienced lifter of 25 years. I have been working out basically the same way as I did when I was 25. Should I be scaling back the reps and volume for heavier weight and lower volume or should I be adding more reps and volume? Oh, see, I like questions like this because I think sometimes we read what we're supposed to do based off of our age or our sex or whatever. And we think, oh, we start to question like, am I, should I do this? Because I read this article that said- It should really be lifting heavy, right? Yeah, once you're over 40 that you need to do this or whatever, okay. Nothing is above your listening to your individual body. Okay, so I can't answer this question because I'm not in your body. I also don't train you in person. Should you scale back? Well, if you're finding that you're getting more aches and pains in your joints, if you're finding that you're having more trouble recovering, then yeah, you might need to scale back a little bit. There may be some other stuff you can look at as well. Should you increase the volume? Well, I mean, is it easy? Can you increase the volume and still feel recovered and improve? In which case, then increasing the volume is okay. It all depends on your individual body. It also depends on what you're currently doing. So, you know, he says I'm lifting, what is the same as 25, right? So, does that mean you're, and I'm guessing because there's an option here to either add volume or add reps or also add weight. I'm assuming you probably fall in the muscle building category of the sticking around eight to 12 rep range. And in that case, either direction is gonna be very beneficial to you because it's gonna be novel. Going down and remember this too that, you know, heavy at 50 may be different than what heavy at 25 is. So, you know, maybe, you know, when you were 25, you were deadlifting 400 pounds, that doesn't mean you necessarily have to go that heavy just because you've done it before. Heavy now may be 315 pounds and that's what might be challenging for five reps. But the value of, you know, working down in the three to five rep range, if you never do that or you haven't done that in years or even haven't done that in six or eight weeks, that's extremely valuable. Same thing goes for the other direction. If you've been hovering around that eight to 12 rep range and you haven't moved up to 15 to 20 reps for a phase or a cycle, that has tremendous value. So, yeah, not only knowing what this person is feeling and where they're at and what's going on with their body but also what's going on with their programming. It's not enough information for me to know what they were doing for the last 25 years. Whatever you've been doing, moving away from that is one of the best things that you could possibly do right now if all things are healthy and fine. I'll tell you what though, if you've been training with traditional resistance training in the gym and you've been doing it that way for 25 years, I'll tell you what, maps performance will blow you away. It'll completely blow you away because of its emphasis on mobility and because of a lot of the movements are non-traditional in that program. So, if you've been doing traditional, like bench presses and squats and rows and overhead presses that kind of the traditional bodybuilding exercises which are great, nothing necessarily wrong with them. If you go to a program like maps performance after decades of training a particular way, it will literally blow your mind. That's how you go that way. I've actually been going through this with my dad who has been doing the same routine for yeah, about 25, 30 years, similar situation but is at a point now where it's getting this sort of repetitive stress where it's starting to affect the joints, the knees, his hips and so for me to now get him moving laterally and twisting is really crucial to fulfill and basically alleviate a lot of the pain of him coming back in and doing these workouts he was doing and really changing it up is gonna be transformative for him. Well, and the beauty of the programming, like if you take or you go through maps performance is that we take you through all those phases. So, I mean, you're gonna go through a strength phase, you'll go through a hypertrophy type of phase and endurance type of phase. There's an explosive phase. It's the only program with an explosive phase. Right, so it'll, you know, if you have all the laid out for you, so you go through all that and then you just, you modify the weights to where you're at currently right now but you're sales right, the different types of movements that are in performance, even if you're somebody who's been training for traditional weight training, it's foreign enough and novel enough that you're gonna see some great results just from doing that. You know what is interesting about this, people like this though, is that they're your ability to handle work and workouts, it doesn't decline until you're a little older than 50, much older. I mean, if you've ever met a 50-year-old construction worker or a 50-year-old farmer, they will blow your mind how much their bodies can handle, because they've been doing it for so long. The work capacity is incredible. I used to help my dad in construction all the time and you'd see these guys, these men in their 50s who'd been doing it since they were teenagers and here I am, I'm a teenage kid myself, I'm pretty fit and they'd blow me away by how much they could work and do. They're just way more efficient. Yeah, they'd whistle while they're doing it and having a good time and meanwhile I'm like sweating my ass off and I can barely breathe and so you'd be surprised at how long it takes before age starts to, especially been doing it for 25 years before age starts to force you to have to reduce things.