 Next question is from more life Jojo. Does the intensity of the squeeze or clenching of a muscle matter big time? Definitely big time your intrinsic Application of intensity right so how hard you squeeze the muscle? increases the intensity just like adding weight to the bar wood makes a big difference isometrics are depending on your intensity of Contraction if I flex a muscle I can flex it You know have good control or I can really flex it hard and the harder I flex it the more the louder the signal the more potential damage all that stuff so this makes a huge difference one way you can apply this to your training well There's two ways one is to do isometric training in your workout or two is Focus on the squeeze at the top of a movement and really squeeze the muscle hard But I will warn you you're gonna have to go lighter to do this you fatigue real fast when you do this It's not as easy as it sounds. It definitely makes it a lot harder Well wouldn't it wouldn't a simpler way to kind of explain this be like if I were to Clench my fist very lightly right so I'm squeezing my arm right now My brain is firing neurons to my hand right now to in order to do that and let's just say for this example A hundred of them are being fired in order to do that and then just by me simply Clenching down as hard as I can I now recruit even more from my brain to there in order to do more muscle fibers Right, so the and I and I'm also training that connection a stronger more More neuro neurological connection to to my fist and if that is training like I loved your analogy that used to give on The podcastle time which is comparing it to like an amp, right? So your your your central nervous ism is like an amplifier to the speakers your speaker the muscles are the speakers and so You training that amplifier. You're getting a higher wattage a stronger amplifier the better this better and stronger it can get the better that you can recruit muscle and the More likely you are to lift more weight and that goes back to the last question with like gymnast part of the reason Why they're so good is they have great CNS control I mean they have all that body weight training has connected them to their body so well So they have incredible amplifiers Maybe they didn't have big muscles yet because they haven't lifted hundreds and huge squat or dead lifting days But they've trained their body so well. They're so well connected They have an incredible amplifier all they need is to plug in some speakers and they're gonna get tremendous benefits from it Yeah, and for some reason, you know that concept is hard sometimes to for people to grasp right away of like you can Squeeze harder Just think of it as like if I'm going to grab an object that's lighter versus heavier and what that all entails like if I'm gonna pick it up And just use the same amount of contraction to pick it up as I would you know the heavier object You're gonna have to squeeze hard You have to try hard you have to recruit, you know all the way up your arm into your hips and stabilize with your legs like a Heavy object that you know requires More force production. So you have to be able to generate, you know more muscle fibers. You have to recruit more You know to be able to pull that off. So you're just sort of simulating that You know on your own So you just have to get in that mindset like I need to squeeze and I need to really you know bear down and You and that's gonna then transfer to when you do have heavier loads and things to you know account for