 Question is from Jalen's four. When performing deadlifts, should they be taken to failure or leave to in the tank? I don't think going to failure on most exercises is a great idea most of the time. I think there was a part of that that was missing. It was grip, considering grip on there. Oh, okay. I couldn't understand the question otherwise. Oh, oh, I think I read this question. I did too. He was asking about, should you go until your grip fails? Yes, that's what it was. So let's say the rest of your body is okay. You think you could pull more, but your grip, no, no, no. When your grip fails, the deadlift is over. So when we say stop your reps, stop your set two reps short of failure, that means stop your set two reps short of you being able to failing and not being able to do the exercise anymore. If that means your grip is the weakest link, then that's what dictates when you stop. Well, and if you've ever gone beyond that, because I've pushed those limits before, you'll notice, first of all, very few people have the exact same strength in both hands. Normally you have a little bit better grip on the other hand. So what happens on a deadlift when you start to lose grip is you start to lose more grip in one side than the other and that starts to, the bar starts to roll down and those fingers and if you're still, and maybe I can still squeeze two more out, but now my right hand, let's say is my weaker and it's barely gripping onto the bar. What does that do to the bar? The bar ends up dropping a quarter of an inch down. And that could affect your QL. Oh, yeah. Exactly. That runs all the way through your kinetic chain now. That's your much higher risk, trying to rip out one or two more reps because just because you think your back can handle the load, but your grip is going out. As soon as that, if I feel like I'm starting to lose grip on either hand, I'm done. If that's the weakest link, that's the one that you wanna start building in these frequency builders of ways to incorporate strength for your grip, like farmer carries, things like that. I know, Sal, you did a really in-depth video about grip of ways to incorporate more exercises for that. There's a video on my Instagram, just like, I don't know, maybe less than 15, 20 videos ago. It's a dead, I'm deadlifting. I get seven reps. I was trying to get eight. And if you see, I set the weight down. It looks like I don't go to failure. Like if you don't see my breakdown in my form, what you can't see is I feel my grip go, I don't have another one. That's why you were done. So I'm done. And you see me step over the bar and I kind of get, I have like a frustrated look on my face. That the reason why I shared that video was I set it down because I couldn't get to my eight, but you can't see that on my mechanics. My form on my deadlift looks still great all the way through that rep, but I'm already starting to lose grip on the bar and I set it down and you see kind of this frustration of, oh, my grip wasn't there. It's funny because the grip, I would say, if we were to compare ourselves to past generations, that's probably, will you notice, the largest decrease in strength. Because manual labor, right? All the manual labor that we used to have to do, even at home, even if you weren't out chopping wood or breaking rocks, washing clothes, have you guys ever washed clothes on an old school you know, board, washing board or whatever? No, dude, can't say that. Okay, so I did. I went to Italy when I was, this time I think I was 19 and my grandma had one outside. She had a washing machine too, but she still liked to use it for certain clothes. So I went out there and I asked her, can I try this out with her? I could not believe the work that it entailed on my grip, on my shoulders. Our hands are so weak nowadays, but the capacity for strength that we have in our hands is exceptional. It will take some time. When I first stopped using wrist straps years ago, took me about a year and a half for my grip to catch up to the rest of my body. But I was consistent. I let my grip dictate how much weight I used when I worked out my back. No, I don't lose back gains or anything like that. I maintain myself pretty well, but my hands got stronger and stronger and stronger. And now that my grip is really strong, I feel far more connected to my lifts. Now that all being said, the recommendation that we give to going to failure is true for pretty much any exercise you do. Going to failure is just too much intensity for most people. Studies support it. Going to failure does not result in better progress. In fact, it oftentimes results in worse progress. It's just too much for the body. So you wanna stop your set when you think you have maybe two more reps and then you're gonna fail. Now there are exercises you can get away with more intensity than others. They tend to be the isolation exercises. Going to failure on a set of shoulder side laterals isn't going to potentially have the detrimental effect of like a overhead press going to failure or a squat. So if you like to push the intensity, you can do that with the isolation movements more than you can with the compound ones.