 Our next caller is Harry from Australia. Harry, what's going on, man? Hello, how's it going? Good, good. How can we help you? Awesome. So I just had a question regarding like my one rep max calculations on the power lifting program. So I recently bought the the strength and power lifting programs and I got to the, you know, there's like an intro section. There's a strength portion and then there's the peaking portion and I was in the intro portion and I was doing the, you know, at the end of the three weeks, you take your eight rep max on the last set of the exercise and essentially I was heading towards that point where I got it and I put my eight rep max in and the numbers that were coming up for my one rep max were quite low below what I knew my one rep max was. So like squats, for instance, I think my one rep max came up at like 80 something kilos and I just recently done, oh, you guys are in pounds. So it's like times 2.2 or something. We can do math. That's all right. Okay, cool. So it's like 80 something kilos, but I know I'd done like a few weeks early. I'd done like 100 kilos or 220 pounds for five. So I knew I was in a little bit of a, like I'd peaked when I'd done that. So it was maybe a bit lower, but I was basically wondering, do I need to sort of manually adjust those calculations to reflect what my one rep max actually is or should I just trust the process and just maybe like not exhaust my central nervous system and do something closer to what the program is reflecting. Harry, both options are possible. Okay. So first of all, this is one of the greatest challenges of creating digital programs for millions of people is that there's always going to be this individual variance. And when you use, you know, calculators that are built on the internet to hopefully work for most people, it's not always going to work for everybody. Especially eight reps too, which is something we agreed for. It was more, you know, towards the beginners that were introducing them towards powerlifting. So there's some other calculators that might be a little more accurate in terms of, you know, coming up with your one rep max. That's right. And to Justin's point, and the reason why we went with this type of a calculator was for that. We knew that we were going to attract people that have never powerlifting before. And we'd always rather them focus more on form and technique and maybe a little bit lighter towards their, their one rep max. Then we're, here we are talking to someone like you who's a little bit more advanced than our standards. So one, yes, you could totally adjust it up because you know, your one rep max better than the, obviously the average person getting introduced to this program. And then there's the other option of actually just following it to a tee all the way through and seeing what the potential benefits are, because one of the things I've seen with some of my powerlifting friends that have gone through our routine is that they too run in the same thing. Oh, I could do more. And I've told them like, you know, just follow it all the way through and tell me what ends up happening at the end. And sometimes what ends up happening is they actually end up surpassing some of their previous best because maybe what their body actually needed was to not be pushing that hard all the time. Yeah. And focusing on practicing and like mastering the technique of it. That's right. So either option is okay, you know. Yeah, that's great advice. I would agree 100%. You know, one rep max calculators are almost always off for someone like me. I lift way more in the low rep ranges than the calculations will give me. And I'm less in the high rep calculations that they'll give me have really good low grinding strength and really kind of just poor in comparison, higher rep type strength. So these are very which seems happens to me more in like, in like the posterior chain and like glute dominant movements, I seem to be able to do much higher weight in the low rep ranges, whereas like my bench press reflects a little bit closer. They're, it's general, it's rough estimates. So, you know, you could you can adjust them for your specific body. But you know, Adam gave great advice, like sometimes I remember I did this once where I read this routine, it was an old Soviet style workout philosophy where you picked a weight that let's say was, you know, you could do 10 reps with that was 90% intensity. And then for like two months, you always only ever do 10 reps, even though as I obviously got stronger and it felt like it was 80% and then 70% and then 60%. I always did 10 reps. Then at the end of two months, I went and tested my strength and I got stronger than I would have had I always tried to push 90%. In fact, if you've been working out for a while and you're relatively advanced, I think you should go in that route. I think you should go on the route of less, less is more. And then at the end of the program, test your strength and see where you're at. I think you might be surprised at just how strong you've gotten. I can always run the program again to what's losing. I'm not losing 12 weeks of my life. The other thing I was thinking is, you know, because I've missed the time a little bit, but I wanted to peak in this program to do Jiu Jitsu competition. And I'm thinking if I'm completely frying myself every workout, I'm going to what my true one max is, then am I just going to over train and not be able to do as much as the other things I like to do? That was another thought. Yeah, totally different answer now. So even more reason to back off. What rank are you in Jiu Jitsu? Purple. Oh, you're a purple belt. Well, you should know better. You should know that max strength is probably not the most beneficial for Jiu Jitsu. I mean, for Jiu Jitsu, I would do, you know, I would do like a maps performance type of routine that's going to make you, that's going to give you much better performance. I mean, you're going to get a good performance from power lift to especially as a purple belt, you're probably training at least three or four days a week. So you're able to integrate it back to your end range. Yeah, I would go, I would do like a maps performance for Jiu Jitsu, especially if you're going to compete. Yeah, especially if you're going to do a competition because, you know, you know, as well, you know better than anybody, but I mean, you've probably been training for at least three or four years. If you're at a purple belt level, you know, strength is important, but how, but if that strength can't be applied in different directions with different tensions and lots of mobility, it's not very useful in Jiu Jitsu. So I would do, especially if it's like, especially if it's like gnawing into your training time or, you know, but I guess the reason I picked the power lift program was because well, firstly, like simplicity, because I'm using like a, I don't know what sort of gyms you guys have there, but like a really commercial gym that has pretty basic equipment. Like I don't have any like balls to throw. Yeah. And that sort of stuff. So I just, like, I just thought I'd keep it like really simple deadlift squats. And I've definitely noticed that has like improved my game because I used to just do like a lot of yoga and calisthenics and that definitely helped, but just adding some power lifting movements in to a certain degree has definitely helped. And you look at it, comparing yoga to any strength training, you're going to see, you're going to see better results with strength training. I would love, I would love to see him do suspension training. Suspension or maps performance. And here's the deal. Maps performance, you could do maps performance with basic equipment. It's not, it doesn't require lots of weird equipment. So I'll send that to you if you don't have it. If you're going to compete, if you're going to compete in a tournament, do that, but also modify it. If you're doing Jiu Jitsu four days a week, I wouldn't do more than one or two days a week of strength training. I wouldn't do any more than that because then you'll be doing too much. So we'll send that over to you. And also I appreciate you calling it. I know you're calling from down under and it's like, what is it? 3am over there. So we appreciate you. It was pretty excited. Yeah. Thanks for calling, man. Pleasure. Thank you. No problem. Yeah, that, you know, good question, but he threw in the Jiu Jitsu at the end. Yeah, that just makes the whole conversation. Yeah, changed everything. It's like, you're going to compete in Jiu Jitsu and he's like, well, I noticed an improvement. And it's like, well, yeah, you were comparing it to yoga. Well, even, of course, even our suggestion with performance is, uh, is a bit much for someone who's doing Jiu Jitsu four days a week. You have to cut it back. You just have to cut it back. Right. I mean, I mean, what, two days a week maybe of performance. Max. Yeah. Max. I would even do one day a week. That's why I let the suspension trainer, I just feel like, because it said, it promotes the deep range of motion and stability and you're still going to get strength from it. And it's not as taxing as like a barbell type of a program. I feel like we really compliment his Jiu Jitsu. It'd be really interesting to see how he, how he did with that. Yeah, totally.