 First question is from DKZ all day What you guys think about controlling a deadlift back to the ground versus dropping it great. Yeah, it's so all day Say I'd add that for the bingo the same thing that I would say about any exercise There's there's pluses and minuses to either one, right? So when you look at like an Olympic lifter and they do their lifts and they explode Swing the weight up at the top whether it's a snatch or a clean or whatever and they drop the weight What they're trying to do is they're trying to work on their explosive power dropping the weight First off reduces the the potential damage on the muscles. They're not really interested in super fatiguing the muscles They don't really care too much about bodybuilding. It's about improving their performance. It's less risky It's less risky. So deadlifting up and then dropping the weight. You'll still build strength You're gonna get a little bit less muscle growth just like you would from you know, not doing the negative portion of Any rep. I'm guilty of dropping a deadlift sometimes when I'm probably the biggest offender really yeah Well, you like the Olympic well, yeah, because and mainly like that was how I Learned, you know power cleans and everything else and that's how I would deadlift was just to pick up the weight And then drop it because you know that risk factor is always something to consider But I liked you know really pursuing more of that initial Power and that that explosive output that I could provide well Which you should do is you you obviously should not use the same weight, right? So I run I do this like in phases like we do in any of our programs So if I have been, you know lifting really heavy deadlifts and I've been dropping Dropping the weight for some time like then I'll switch it up and reduce the weight to 50% and then really control the negative So I just it's a I think for the for the average person right somebody who is just trying to be healthy strong Build a good physique lose body fat build muscle just overall overall. Yeah, this belongs in your routine You should absolutely face. I should mostly deadlift Yeah, you should you should run a phase where you do a very controlled negative and let the set the weight down At least a phase if you don't always do it that way, right? Because there's not tremendous value for somebody to be dropping and slamming slamming the weight Especially if that you're not competing if you're not competing to hit a you know specific PR Well even in powerlifting you if you don't bring the weight down you get disqualified. You're not allowed to drop the weight Yeah, but you can you can drop it in your hands, right? You can let the weight fall You don't resist the weight. Oh, I know what your body down hold the weight and go down. Yeah. Yeah I mean you still quickly. Yeah, you you're still kind of dropping it, right? I mean I this is what this person's asking to me is like resisting it on the way down I really slow like slowing it like a four-second negative Yeah, I'll do a four-second negative on a deadlift sometimes just to change up my my training It's much more body building that way That tears me up. Oh, it was so effective. It will get you. It is I'll give you an example I will I will relatively control a deadlift up into going up to about 400 pounds After 400 pounds I tend to tend to drop I don't control a five plate deadlift the five plate deadlift for me So just give an example. That's a hundred pound difference There's a big difference between Dropping the weight and controlling it which one is going to build More muscle if I had to pick one it's obviously going to be controlling But if you do both and do them right you're probably going to get better results But I don't recommend dropping anything or going fast on anything on the descent unless you're an olympic lifter advanced Otherwise, it's not really recommended just having fun because it's pretty liberating. Yeah, but I mean if you watch like a look It's pretty telling right if you watch a here's something you could do go on youtube And watch olympic lifters barbell squat and then watch power lifters or bodybuilders Barbell squat. Yeah, very different very different olympic besides the bar placement You know olympic lifters like to have a high bar and much more upright posture. They drop fast They can bounce back up and use that to elastic energy and that requires way more skill Way better control and way better stability the average person drop a high risk with that You drop down fast in a squat the average person you are going to injure yourself That's not something I would recommend to anybody which again building more muscle overall Always control the negative the negative portion of a rep is just as important as the positive