 Next question is from CureStevo7. As someone who has gone to a big box gym for years, I have struggled during this quarantine. I am probably used to doing way too many isolation movements, but at present only have a barbell, weights, and a squat rack. Can I solely use this equipment and still make progress by focusing just on compound movements? You'll probably make more progress if you do that. I remember that was one of the greatest shifts in my own personal physique is when I stopped training. I was notorious for coming to the gym and doing two or three machine exercises to warm me up. I was like leg extensions, leg press, chest fly, peck deck. I would do all these machine stuff. In fact, there would be many workouts where I may not even hit dumbbells or barbells. One of the single best things I ever did was switch over to purely barbell training with a little bit of dumbbell training to compliment that. One of the cool things about once you commit to that and you make that switch, and what I love about that now is I do way less to keep the physique that I used to bust my ass in the gym for an hour and a half doing 15 to 20 different exercises. I can go in the gym now and literally do four or five exercise, maintain the physique that I like to maintain with half the effort because of the choice of exercises that I'm doing. Man, I think it will greatly benefit you if you discipline yourself. Free weights are superior. I'm not saying you shouldn't do machines. But if you had to pick free weights, crush machines for a few different reasons. Number one, when you get into a machine, your body has to follow the machine. You have to follow the range of motion of the machine, the path of movement. You have to follow the machine itself. Free weights always follow your body. It doesn't matter if you're tall, short, how you move. It doesn't matter. The free weights follow your body. The second thing is that the variety with free weights is insane. It's absolutely insane. I can train my entire body with more exercises than I can use with just a pair of dumbbells, a barbell, a squat rack, and adjustable bench. By the way, this is how I've worked out for the last 15 years almost exclusively. I've made the best progress and strength gains and muscle gains in that period of time. This is how bodybuilders train for the most part until probably the 80s. One of the first fitness books I ever got was Arnold Schwarzenegger's Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding, and the vast majority of exercises per body part in that. I had the original one, which is the older one, where all these dumbbell and barbell movements that you could do for the body, and that's just how I learned. Now, when I train clients, I found it to be the same way. When I got clients to do really well with free weights, it would trump 12 machines combined in terms of progress. You're actually in a far better position. In fact, the fact that you're forced to rely on free weights is a blessing in disguise. Right now, you may be thinking to yourself, oh, I don't have so much machines and this might suck. Watch what happens to your body. The new stimulus that now your body's going to respond to, just watch what that does to your muscle development. It's just changing something up like that. If you're used to just moving only in a track and using these machines to really place you in a position without stabilizing, without actively controlling your body embracing, it's a completely different experience and your body's going to respond accordingly, which may be amazing for you. Well, this is also part of the reason why CrossFit exploded. Oh, they had the best exercises. They did. That's what they did a great job of. And a lot of people got results and that's what turned other people onto it was, we grew up in a time, 20 years ago when I first got into fitness, barbell training had fallen out of favor. Deadlifting and squatting was very foreign. Yeah, you saw some people doing bent over rows every once in a while, but you never saw the squat rack busy. You never saw someone deadlifting in a 24-hour fitness event. Ever. Yeah, never, never, never, never. So it was literally, I mean, even as a trainer, I made the mistake of categorizing those exercises as like a powerlifter. You know, I'm not a powerlifter, I don't train those exercises. So it wasn't until CrossFit did that become very popular. So it was something they did really, really good, was they implemented some of the best movements in their training. Now, luckily for me, I learned these movements from, again, these old muscle building books and there was a group of powerlifters that had a strong influence on me when I was a kid and no joke. I was a general manager of a gym after having been a trainer and trained clients and I would deadlift in the gym and almost, almost every time, a member would come up to me and say, oh, what are you doing? You're gonna hurt yourself. Yeah, you shouldn't lift it that way. And I'm like, I'm doing a deadlift and they're like, a what? Like nobody did it. In fact, nobody did let deadlift so often that the plates that the gyms had were the hexagonal plates, which you know are terrible for them. Yeah, because it misplaces them, you know, to put the bar down at shifts or whatever because nobody ever did them. You know, I'd manage 30, 40,000 square foot gyms and you'd have one squat rack, maybe. Maybe you'd have one squat rack. Now, fast forward, people are now squatting and deadlifting and overhead pressing way more than they ever did. Why? Because it just crushes everything else in terms of results. So, I firmly believe most people's routines should be over 90% free weights and then maybe 10, 5 or 10% machines or less. Well, now we have squat racks we can easily fold out from your wall. Where's your excuse now? Exactly.