 Question is from Connor Alex Smith. Can you explain how to take advantage of using angles when lifting? Good questions, Justin. Yeah, I know. You guys like this? Yeah, yeah. Is there any nutrition today? Nope. Zero. Yeah, yeah. What do you think about cheese? Yeah. I was looking for the barbecue sauce question. It wasn't there. No, so angle. So okay, I'm gonna try and explain this both in how you would understand in terms of results, but also how it works. So results wise, here's the bottom line. Training body parts with different angles of pull, different periods of or points of tension is gonna give you better results than if you just do the same thing all the time. That's just a fact, okay? You ask any trainer or coach who's been working with people for a long time. That's just the bottom line. Now, how does it work? Well, if you imagine your bicep, we'll focus on that because that's an easy one to understand. If I'm doing a dumbbell, standing dumbbell curl, so I have a free weight dumbbell. When I curl the dumbbell up, let's say it's a 35 pound dumbbell, I'm not directly opposing 35 pounds until my hand is about parallel to the ground. Right, the halfway point. Right, because that's where I'm fighting gravity directly, right? From there up, it's a little easier. And from the bottom to the midpoint, I'm pushing, you know, I'm kind of curling the 35 out and up. Once I get to that midpoint, now it's max tension. So my bicep is achieving max tension about halfway through its full contraction. And when you look at muscle fibers and the way they contract, they slide along each other and they attach in order to, as they're sliding, they attach to each other to create tension. So maximum tension in a dumbbell curl is in the midpoint of contraction. That's great. Now, what about a concentration curl? Now I'm bending over. Now I'm opposing gravity directly when my bicep is fully contracted. Now I get max tension at the squeeze. What about a preacher curl? Now the max tension is in the more stretched position. So that's one example of how angles will hit muscles differently, creating different points of tension. And that's why you get better results. And it's really the novelty of it. Yes. I mean, more than anything else, right? More than the degree of the angle or the specific exercise, it's the novelty of it. I mean, when you do something over and over, our bodies, they're adaptation machines. Eventually they get adapted to whatever it is that you're doing. And then the results, the change that you get from that starts to diminish. One of the easiest ways to keep that progress happening is by manipulating angles and things like that. Sure, it's not. Where it gets wrong and where there's like all this debate argument is when people try and make the case that, oh, this is working the peak of the bicep or this is what makes the round part of your bicep or this is the, you know, when they start saying that you're targeting, here's the thing. It's impossible to isolate one muscle. Okay, our bodies all work together. So you can't even isolate one muscle, much less a part of a muscle. So that never happens. Like everything's working together, but you can target a muscle differently so that it seems new. This is different. I'm pulling from a different direction. Even though I've done a curl, a bicep curl here, I've done that a hundred times, doing it with my elbow up above my head and curling. It's still a curl. All of the bicep is still working, but because it's novel and it's different, it's a new stimulus and then we get that new adaptation which is gonna help you progress. Now biomechanics still applies. So there are like angles that aren't very effective for certain muscle groups and they're not gonna activate and stimulate that. So keeping that in mind in terms of keeping your elbow, for instance, in the same pathway, but now I'm raising it up or I'm lowering it, but I'm not bringing it way outside and flaring it out. There's certain points of where that makes sense. Well, yeah, and the rules of physiology and anatomy still applies. It still applies to the point. And an easier example for somebody is a tricep pushdown. If you do a tricep pushdown on a cable machine and you do it with a triangle, a rope, a straight bar, a reverse grip, all the same. Yeah, the physics is still like, I appreciate the elbow still in the same position. Tension points are still in position. Slightly different. Is it enough of a novel signal to cause any change? Probably not. Probably not. Now here's the other thing too. You may be thinking to yourself, okay, different points of tension. Well, what if I just use a cable? What if I use a cable which gives me the same weight throughout the whole range of motion? Do angles still matter? They do because then it depends on what position the muscle is in when it's pulling or contracting. So now my elbow in front of me, side to me, behind me, whether I'm pulling the weight with each of those positions, because the position is different, it's still considered novel. So angles are important. Now here's when people get in trouble and Justin kind of touched on this. People think, oh, this is great. I'm gonna get crazy. I'm gonna do all kinds of weird and crazy stuff. Look, you could use all the angles you want for your quads and all those angles aren't gonna be as effective as quads. It's just straight up loaded barbell squats. You can do all the angles in the world for your shoulders, but overhead shoulder press is gonna be the king of all exercises. It's just one factor. Angles is one factor. It's an important one, but you don't wanna get caught up because I've seen this where people go to the gym. No, this is a good point. This is really common right now in the Instagram world we live in where these popular bodybuilders who what people fail to realize these amazing physiques that we follow and idolize, these guys and girls, they've covered all the bases. They're doing all the major good lifts. They're consistent as shit. Their diet is dialed. They haven't taken a day off in five years. And then you see them do like a sideways chest press on a hammer strength machine. And you think, oh my God, he looks this way. He's doing that. I should be doing this also or I'm gonna incorporate that. Now he can get away with doing a lesser valuable exercise because he's doing so much other stuff. And that's where you gotta be careful is where you're at in your lifting career, if you do not replace a sideways chest press for your barbell bench press. I mean, get your good compound big lifts and be consistent, get great at those, see progress in all those. Yeah, if you're training six, seven days in the gym and you've been lifting for years and years and you wanna get creative and add different exercises in there, then there's some value to that. But don't do that to replace something that has got a much higher value. Yeah, and it's, I know it can be confusing. If you're listening like, gosh, there's so many exercises to pick from. There's so many different angles, so many different ways to alter tension. And I get that it is very complicated and there is a hierarchy of exercises and there is a way to combine different tension points to give you better results. If it's complicated or too complicated for you and you want the guesswork taken out, then just follow an established program. I mean, we obviously have created a lot of really good programs and so we've done that, right? We've done that for you. We've plugged in the right exercise, the right combinations to take advantage of all these different factors.