 All right, our first question is from more Jojo What type of lifter do you think is having the easiest time adjusting to at-home workouts? Oh, that's a good question That's a fun one to speculate. It is because I've had so I've seen several questions that are similar to this Like who do you think's having a better time bodybuilder power lifter? Crossfit yeah crossfit I think you get the I think you first have to we have to separate the what we're like What do you mean by easiest time right either mentally or physically right? So I think if you're a bodybuilder or a power lifter I think they they go into this with an advantage, right? You probably have a lot of muscle mass on you so you can afford to lose some of it So you probably go in with the greatest advantage, but then I would be I would say that they probably are the hardest Mentally right now. They're probably freaking out and having in the hardest time Not having a cross for having the hardest time because they can't like you know, of course That's all their friends. Dude. I totally did it in like under five minutes. Where are you? Nobody gives a shit you're right at home by yourself. I think I agree with you I think crossfitters are probably struggling the most that thing is such a community-driven Sports totally mirthed, you know like in 4.9. Yes. Oh my god, right You know, I just having the hardest time I saw a meme that cracked me up. It said that power lifters don't even know that there's a shutdown They just they're still resting between sets Okay, so here's the type of lifter that I think is gonna have the easiest time the one that Does the best job of accepting the circumstances? That's the truth. So whether you're a bodybuilder a power lifter Olympic lifter cross fitter, you know, whatever the person who is you know has is having the the easiest time accepting the circumstances and Transitioning to other forms of exercise. I would like to think that's a mind-pub listener I would like to think if you've been with us for a really long time We've made the case for no matter what modality you gravitate towards that There's tons of value in learning to move in and out of all types of modalities and here This is just a forced reason for you to transition right now, right? We've all now gotta be adaptable our gym our gyms are shut down and even if you weren't a big fan of Bodyweight type of training. You're like, well, I you know, I've been telling myself I need to transition that mine pumps been telling me for a long time that I should transition out of my You know powerlifting or bodybuilding phase that I love to go back to all the time This now makes a great excuse for me to do it and the people that I think that are Reframing the situation as an opportune time for them to work on either bodyweight or mobility type of training and are seizing that I think are for sure having the best time in this situation I completely agree and I think look if you're if you were somebody that was so in love with your form of training that you Never moved out of it first off nothing wrong with that There's nothing wrong with really enjoying a modality and you really don't want to veer out of it So you power left you always power left or your bodybuilder you always bodybuilder whatever nothing necessarily wrong with that But remember this one fact right here remember that novelty Gets the body to respond. It just does. I don't care what type of training that you do Switching things up can oftentimes cause some pretty positive Changes to your body. So now you have this this you're forced into a little bit of novelty now Is your max squat number is gonna go down and your max deadlift number is gonna go down because maybe you're doing bodyweight stuff Yes, but you may increase your stability You may have significant improvements in your mobility and remember this muscle You know muscle memory is a real thing just because you're not you know lifting the way you always do But you're still staying active you go back to the gym when things finally open up and you go back to the gym Not only will you see your whatever you were doing before you'll get back to it very quickly But because now you've added a new element to your training like maybe mobility for example You may surpass some of your previous platos like I know I know for a fact. I'll give you a great example Here's a good example. I love heavy compound barbell movements. I love squats Deadlifts overhead presses rose, you know bench presses. Those are my favorite exercises I love training and low reps and for a long time I trained to see how how much I could possibly if well at one point I had to face the reality that pushing any further was causing me pain I had SI joint pain in my low back I had you know some some issues with my left to right balance So what I did is I dedicated some time to unilateral training now That means that my weight went way down. So instead of squatting with three or 350 pounds I'm doing you know controlled lunges with a hundred pounds on my back, but I did this for a few months I dedicated unilateral training for about a few months then when I went back to my Favorite form of exercise. Yes, it did take me a few weeks to get back to the previous strength that I had But then I went past it. I went past my old plateaus So you have to reframe so the lifter that that looks is this it looks at everything in acceptance Okay, I can't go to the gym What can I do and you know what the same fervor and passion that I had towards the way that I trained before I'm going to apply that to this other form of exercise mobility is a great example and mobility will benefit 99% of those of you listening Are going to benefit from really really good mobility training as a bodybuilder You'll have better controlled ranges of motion which are going to give you better muscle growth and better pumps as a power lifter Reduce risk of injury and because your weak links are not going to be as weak as they were before You're probably not going to hit the same rev limiter that you hit before so this could be a very good thing Well, minus all you know the lack of machines I feel like bodybuilders are going to be you know in the best situation because you mean you can walk around in your bikini briefs You know where the best lighting is You know i'm saying like that's in front of a mirror and do your fucking thing Like you're great. Like it's it's powerful. It's great I I I think about like power lifters doing like reps, you know body weight stuff like oh my god, it's 15 reps You know It's too much hurling. No, this is this is a mindset thing, you know 100 percent, you know part of what? The okay, so for years we we've been familiar with you know, corrective exercise and mobility and you know foam rolling and all these tools to help improve Range of motion and stuff right and work on your dysfunction. Well, it wasn't until I Reframed my goals and said okay. I'm gonna really take this seriously where my entire focus was around mobility Did I see the like huge change? So I had a lot of people that have messaged me about like oh man How did you get that depth in your squad and how'd you you know? I've been trying to work on the combat stretch and I feel like my ankle mobility. It'll never be there I'm mark bell. I know tagged. I was tagged in one of his posts recently where he doesn't think he could ever get down into a Astagrass squad just people you start to believe that you're just your structure won't allow you to get there and it's not true It's just you probably have never put the same effort towards mobility as you have powerlifting guarantee if somebody like our buddy mark Actually applied all all the mobility drills the same way that he has put effort towards his powerlifting Is an incredible powerlifter if you just switch that to like all like you totally like said I don't care about powerlifting now. All I care about is becoming the most mobile guy He would become extremely mobile and it caught it required me to do that after bodybuilding I went from being all I cared about is how I look and the pump and building a more muscle more muscle more muscle To okay. I have to completely shut that off. That's not a priority right now It doesn't mean that I don't want muscle doesn't mean that I don't want to not lose muscle It just means that I don't care about it. It's not my focus My focus is what I'm measuring my success week over week is am I gaining a greater range of motion? Am I getting better at these mobility drills? And so this is a great time for people To reframe their goals and put a lot of energy and effort On an area like sal said that 99 of you will benefit greatly from and one of the big challenges I know is that people who are you know gym fanatics Don't really know they might have figured out how to program a workout for themselves in the gym Because they've been doing it for so long. They don't know how to program a workout without equipment This is very this would this would have been me You know years ago if you if this happened to me at the age of you know 20 And I didn't have a gym. I'd be like okay push-ups pull-ups Body weight squats like what else do I do? 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