 Our next caller is Matt from Texas. Hey, what's up, man? How can we help you? What's your question? Hi, thanks. So um, so my question is I as a kind of a Middle-aged lifter, I'm pushing 49. I found that my time constraints really only allow me to get in the gym Consistently for about an hour hour and a half three times a week and I've been running anabolic I'm actually running on my third swim through that and love it. I really do But and it fits my schedule really well, but I wonder if there's something else I should be doing To progress from there You know another program. I looked at aesthetic and it looks cool, but five days a week is it's gonna be hard to do should I Try to modify another program or look at playing with different things within anabolic like tempo And things like that really just looking for some guidance on how I can you know Keep enjoying this and progressing with the schedule constraints that I have really really good questions Yeah, and you know three days a week is great for great long-term success, especially If you're you know in your age group, I've trained people three days a week and gotten people to really Advanced levels. So I'm gonna ask you a few more questions just so I can answer your question more specifically for you First off, what are the kind of results and progress that you've experienced with maps and a balik? And then what are some of the things that you'd want to work on Now that you're potentially switching to a different program Okay, so progress has been really cool You know up until I started anabolic I messed around in the gym and never really seen much but I've really seen a lot of development in my back and Like to see more in my arms and my chest of course and maybe shrink the midsection a little but You know my goals for this are obviously overall health is most important But you know somewhat Aesthetic to be honest. I mean, I'd like to be a little bigger in my arms and my chest and just kind of fill out my t-shirts a Little better. I do have to say all the shrugs and anabolic none of my short collars fit anymore That's actually, you know, you know the side effect this, you know, and this is why we have so many different programs They all have strengths and you know what when because they have strength That means that they may lack in other areas maps anabolic phenomenal mass and strength builder okay, one of the the downsides of maps anabolic is The lack of mobility work in it now. How does that apply to you? Well, if we can improve your mobility the aesthetics are gonna come faster and you're gonna get a more balanced and symmetrical physique The perfect program to move especially if you've run maps anabolic multiple times The perfect program to transition to that will positively affect your aesthetics Especially again if you've done maps anabolic a few times is maps performance now I know we advertise mass performance as an athletic training program But it's exactly what your body's missing and so what you're gonna notice from maps performance Aside from the improvements and strength and you're gonna move better is all those Exercises that you like in maps anabolic all those, you know deadlifts and squats and presses that are building your physique right now You're gonna get better at them and then those exercises are gonna do more for you The the mass performance also has mobility sessions which you could do at home You know when you have time with a broomstick or just your body and it really only requires a few days a week in the gym Yeah to add to that the more secure and stabilize your joints get You know the more responsive your muscles are gonna feel and you know, you're gonna be able to allow more force production So, you know, it may seem like it's You know a totally different Goal that you're gonna be facing with with a program like maps performance But again like to Sal's point it really does sort of address a lot of Underlying issues that are gonna come up later on in terms of you know, you're gonna find yourself super tight You're gonna find your some impingements Starting to form that's gonna limit progress going forward So this is the the perfect follow-up for you if you can make it work with your skin Well, I think Matt is really you're an example I think of what we we kind of envisioned when we were building the order of these programs, right? Like you really fit the demographic of our average client somebody who wants to be a little stronger. They care about health Yes, they do they'd like to sculpt and shape their body a little bit How would we progress them through programs and it really is it's anabolic performance and then aesthetic and the good news about both Performance and aesthetic, you know You look at it and it seems like you need to be in the gym five days a week But you don't they actually call for three days in a week And then the other two days are like 20 minute sessions that can be done at home in performance They're mobility focused and so you're doing you could do that literally in your living room or in your garage or at Home or on your lawn It's it's it doesn't take that much time and it's designed to compliment the programming that's in performance And then if you move from there you go into aesthetic and aesthetic is more on focused on building So you said your chest and your arms so that's exactly we have the modal mold ability for whatever you want to focus on So when you get to aesthetic, I would tell you your focus sessions to be chest and arms And those are these 20 minute sessions that you can also do from home with bands or whatever you may have at your house To keep the program and so all three of those programs only really require about three days Inside the gym and then the other bit of time can be done Inside your home and it is the perfect progression for somebody like you is to run anabolic like you've done build a solid foundation Move into performance, which you're gonna do all kinds of new Dynamic type of exercises focused on the mobility on the off days of training at the gym And then eventually move your way into aesthetic. Yeah, and you know trust the process because here's what's gonna happen Matt, you're gonna go into performance. You're gonna notice some Performance definitely performance improvements, but you'll also notice the static improvements Then when you go to maps aesthetic the aesthetics are gonna explode, but they have to be done in that order For for best results. Do you have access by the way to maps performance Matt? No, I don't okay Well, you do now we're gonna send that over to you. Awesome. Thank you. That's great. No problem We appreciate your support a lot. Thank you very much. Yeah, great question. Yep. Thank y'all for everything I really enjoyed following you. It's been really great. Thank you. Thank you Matt Yeah, I really I really love hearing stuff like that And you know, you know, I love that he's getting great results. He's doing the right things. Yep. Yep And he'll get blown away, you know, I think you'll get people sometimes think oh, I'm gonna focus on performance and mobility My aesthetics are gonna suffer. They won't they will get better. I think it's a regression But really yeah, you're just working on other things, you know Something I didn't get to say to him that hopefully he listens to this so we can add to this is that you know We when we I think we talked a lot about this when we first started the show when we first were creating the programs And maybe we've gotten away from reminding people this that when we created these they were designed to be moldable You know, they weren't this you have to follow it exactly to a tee So one of the cool things is if he goes from anabolic to performance and aesthetic and he gets to Experience all those those different ways of programming. He can start to grab and pick and choose from those programs So if he loves the anabolic layout of the three-day a week Coming to the gym and like that fits his lifestyle He can totally take some exercises that we have put in performance to help improve mobility and work in different planes He can take some exercises that we've had an aesthetic that are designed to build Built bring up lagging body parts like his chest and arms and he can start to kind of piece it together in Anabolic or in that type of a format and get some of those carryovers And so that's really well how these were all designed is that it's it's like Education to take you through this process then once you've gone through all the programs and you start to piece together What works really well for you? There's nothing wrong with you going Hey, I'm gonna run a three-day a week program because that works best for my schedule But boy, I love when I do these exercises in aesthetic I see my body respond really well when I do these exercises in performance man It really helps my hip mobility and I noticed this with my shoulders like start to Build your own program that way from the knowledge that you gained from going through the other once you learn your body There is no better trainer than yourself. That's right