 All right, our first question is from Bilal Salvatore. Can you still progress in lifts while cutting? You can, but the more advanced you are, the more challenging this gets. Yes, the less likely it is. Yeah, so when I would train clients, if they were new, if they were beginners, if they hadn't worked out in a while, then they would always progress in their lifts even while cutting, because you would see those initial strength gains. And remember, a lot of the initial lift progress comes from the central nervous system, firing better technique with the lifts, not necessarily because you have more muscle, although that contributes to having more muscle. But when you're advanced and you've been working out for a while and you reduce your calories, even if you don't lose muscle, even if you don't lose muscle, just because you have less calories, you're probably gonna lose some strength. Or if you're like blessed, you're not gonna go down in strength, but you're not gonna go up in strength, you're gonna maintain the same. Now, because of this theory, this is also why I really like to switch up the programming when I transition into a cut or add in an exercise that I'd like never do and try and get good at it. Like we were just recently on a podcast, we were talking about this, right? Changing the routine up and so that when you get bored, like great time, okay? I'm going into a cut, now I'm gonna learn how to do a windmill or learn how to do a Turkish getup, because you don't have a PR. You know what I'm saying? You've never done it before, so you're gonna end up having to reduce and start really, really light. And so you start off with your 20 pound kettlebell or whatever that to do your Turkish getup and you're in a cut. And so you can't really tell the difference because you've never done a Turkish getup in a bulk because you've never been here before. And what you see because it's a new movement, you're learning every week as you get better at it, you actually increase your strength. And so it's, I like to do this for the- The mental, yeah. Yes, it's like a mental game that I play with myself that I'm like, okay, if I go to bench press, which I've been doing for two decades, I know what a great day benching looks like and everything in between, you know, to a horrible day of benching. And so if I'm always paying attention to that lift that I've damn near maxed out my potential. My muscles are ahead, man. Yeah, I like that advice to, you know, to seek novelty or something else that's gonna stimulate you in different ways. So you could try at least to gain those newbie type of gains and get your muscles to still kind of respond like that, cause it is really tough. It's really tough when you're cutting calories to have that kind of same drive and performance in these lifts. So, you know, yeah, I think that's great advice. This is why I do supersets because if I do a superset, I have to go lighter anyway. So because I'm already going lighter, then I don't necessarily, like Adam said, I don't pay attention so much to the fact that I'm using less weight. Then I kind of get into that mental space of the weight doesn't matter. It's all about the form and technique and I'm dieting. But yeah, your calories make a big difference. I'll tell you what, look, I could go on a cut for two months, lose a lot of body fat, get lean. And then I could have one high calorie day and I will be stronger the next day. The very next day I'll go up a lot. I actually just did this recently. I was doing barbell squats. I've been cutting pretty aggressively. I had to drop my squat weight down to, think I dropped down to like 350 and then I had two or three high calorie days, four or five. That's a big difference. That's a 50 pound difference. One thing I didn't want to add though that this isn't a commercial plug for element T but basically being so low in carbohydrates and then adding in more sodium has really helped actually to keep a lot of the performance in the gym higher. So that was interesting to me. Sodium is the one of the most underrated misunderstood nutrients when it comes to athletic performance. Especially if you eat low carb, especially if you eat a diet that is low and heavily processed foods, you will probably benefit from increasing your sodium intake. And you'll notice in the gym right away. Element really highlighted that for me too because I noticed my pumps got way better. And same thing, I got stronger and had a better performance. Now we're assuming that we're answering this all that's related to strength but it just says progress, right? So also lifts. Yeah, also keep in mind though, progress and lifts could be you better form and technique. Good point. So it doesn't, we always think of like, you know, progressing, progressing on the different attributes. Yeah, that's also why I like to shift to a whole other exercise. So I get away from just always thinking about that. It's not the only way to get better. I mean, you can get better in many different ways. And so, you know, obviously when you're not fueling the body with the max amount of calories and nutrients, you're not going to perform at your highest level. That's just, that's inevitable now. So what a great time to not focus so much on that and focus on something else.