 First question is from Josh core. Is there such thing as non-responders to resistance training? Sure Have you ever come across them before I wouldn't say non-response cool. I think if your body doesn't have the ability to adapt to stress You're probably in a really really bad position. Everybody's body I mean there's an exception to every world right not a non-responder like that would mean no response What's if you ever trained someone with a better build zero? No, I mean my point is that there's always there's there's somebody out There was some degenerate disease that doesn't allow them to build muscle degenerative They could be a degenerate also you know saying there's probably someone out there that has there's a degenerate also There's always gonna be that person right there's somebody out there that just that just can't but I mean everybody that I've trained That's not the reason there's normally Other reasons why that person is and they and we all I mean I remember thinking that I was this guy, right? I mean, I'm sure you did too. I'm sure all of us went through a phase. Mr. Pro physics and better at some point Yeah, yeah, I believed at one point that you know, I wasn't gonna build build Muscle or couldn't build muscle or was a non-responder or a hard gainer, right? Those are all kind of they felt that way but more often than not it's It's something related to your program or nutrition I mean it's almost always one or the other or more likely both if you feel like you just don't respond lack of sleep That would be the other one. I actually train people who just they did good diet good training Couldn't figure out why they couldn't build muscle finally gets the conversation about sleep It's like oh, you're up all night playing video games. Let's get some sleep and see what happens Yeah, usually not people who think they're non-responders. It's because they're doing something wrong In fact, I'll say this right now if you think you're a non-responder Try following a program like maps anabolic and then send me a message and let me know if you still think you're non-responder proper workout programming Makes such a tremendous difference In terms of how much how much muscle you build now there is a spectrum There's definitely a spectrum and the spectrum is this right on the left of the spectrum is people who Just they build muscle very slowly and it's very challenging for them to build muscle extremely challenging on the right are the genetic Freaks the people who build muscle like it's their job They just look at it look at exercise and they do yeah Just those are your professional bodybuilders typically your high-level athletes like we all maybe have met people like this in our lives We're just insane how they build muscle most people are nowhere near the left or the right most people are somewhere in the middle I'd say like 85% of us are more in the middle and maybe 1% is at the very very ends so the very middle We all build some muscle. We all get stronger. We all burn some body fat, but if we don't do the right programming We don't eat right It's not gonna happen nearly as fast So the non-responder argument when I hear people say I'm a non-responder. I look at their workout I look at their diet their sleep. You just been doing the same thing too long for the most part most of these I've run into it's like they're spinning their wheels and they keep applying the same Programming the same nutrition and they're thinking that they got to do a more disciplined job And they got a they got to intensify it a bit somehow But they haven't really you know branched out of that a playbook that they've had forever and so to a lot of times To you got to like provide a new stimulus for your body to react to and that takes some work So you do have to be able to have some knowledge or have some direction and good programming that'll take you in a different Position I find this really common with Under-eaters like people that just grossly under you This was me like until I started like tracking my food and calories and then started to wear things like the you know Back then it was the body bug today. They have the Fitbit and Apple Watch to get an idea of like what is my body burn? I have no I know fucking clue back then and Until I did that. I didn't realize like how grossly Under-consuming I was I mean I was just an active kid. I played sports. I love to move around fast Yeah, fast metabolism and I and I trained hard when I did lift and I just and I thought I was eating good because I was I was eating protein and I was eating the drink in the protein shakes and eating the bars and but it still didn't matter They were it was adding up to like 2200 calories 2500 calories Maybe a high one 3,000 calories that would be a high day when my lowest burning day was 4,000 you know 4,500 5,000 calories because I was so active and when you were Under-consuming that much for how much you move and burn It's really hard for the body to adapt and build muscle You're just not giving it the building box. You may be sitting the right signal So maybe you are following anabolic and you're like, hey I'm following one of these great programs and I'm still not seeing more muscle build The next place that would really look is nutrition because I think that's the next common place that people are just under Underreporting. Yeah, that happened to me as a kid. I'd be like, oh, I need to eat protein So I'd eat like a turkey and cheese sandwich, you know, like with just the sliced bread and I'd have like two slices of turkey And I remember when I first became a trainer I started to learn about tracking and I'd be like, okay, let's see. I'm a hundred and at the time I think when I first started as a trainer 185 pounds and I was like, okay I need to eat 185 grams of protein a day Let's see what that looks like and I would add up my sandwiches, you know, and they'd be like 15 grams Like, oh, yeah I need to definitely change the amount of food that I eat in the calories and the protein that I eat in Or to hit those targets. So that that's that's a big one But the bigger one that I see with more people really is is their training, you know I'll have people come to me and say yeah can develop my butt can't build my arms I'm not getting stronger. What's going on? I look at the routine and it's usually some kind of a body part split Maybe too much high volume or maybe they're going to failure too often or they're doing lots of machines hit training Yeah, not the right exactly not the right kind of work at all and that's exactly why I designed The original maps program, which is maps and a ball I literally designed it specifically for people who To have trouble building muscle follow that program. It's good workout programming. It builds muscle on most people It speeds up the metabolism on most people and here's the thing Non-responders for fat loss in my experience tend to be the similar to the non-responders to building muscle both of them have trouble positively affecting the Adaptation process and it usually has to do with diet training or sleep