 Next question is from Evan Smedley. Is it true that if you don't use it, you lose it? Did you guys ever watch, uh, did you ever go to SeaWorld when you were a kid? There was this a walrus called like Smedley, and they would shoot it like pretend shoot him And they pretend to die because Smedley's alive. Anyways, that brought me back. His name's Smedley! Oh, I was like, what does that question have to do with that? That was so in love with you. Seriously, you almost lost me when we were answering right now. No, absolutely. So I think that the the research talks about three days after recovery from training a muscle that atrophy technically starts to happen, right? So if you train you know legs and you know the next day you feel it a little bit, the next day after that you still kind of feel a little bit, day three you feel like fully recovered. Three days after that they say that atrophy begins to happen. So within a week's time if you haven't touched a muscle group you haven't been training it that atrophy begins to start to set it. Oh, dude it's even more than that. People think that the thing that you lose is the muscle strength and size. You also lose neurological connections to the muscle. You lose function. So if you were to stop walking for a few months and then all of a sudden get up and start to try to walk not only would you be weak, but you would also find walking the skill of walking. You would learn it. You have to. If you stop speaking English in you know for five years and then started speaking it again, you would find that your fluency went down. No, I want to point out though, and this is something that's really cool for those that are aspiring lifters or maybe you've just been getting going with your first couple years is the longer you've been doing it the less that happens, right? Like or the longer it takes to lose it, right? So like right now the rebound is fast, right? It's and that's kind of this is what's kind of cool about being someone who's aging, right? Because everyone always talks about getting older how much harder it is, but I disagree if you've been somebody who's been lifting for 20 years There's a lot of things that I feel at an advantage today at almost 40 than what I did when I was 20 the amount of work and eating and consistency that I needed to do in the gym to just barely look like I kind of worked out was Unbelievable and if I fell off for two or three weeks, I have looked like the high school kid again Who did wasn't even training that was really frustrating now after decades of training consistently Now it's not like that for me now actually the opposite I feel I feel like as long as I make sure I touch the get a good lift in every once in a while I could kind of sustain this look if I keep the diet in check and I get some training in I can keep manage a Pretty fit looking physique, which is really cool. It wasn't like that before So yeah atrophy does set set in and we do if we don't use it We do lose it but like to Sal's point about it's more than just muscle atrophy There's also a neurological disconnect or that you start to lose right where if you've really solidified those pathways for so many years I think that's what helps you is that it helps sustain that muscle Well, this is also what you really have to consider when you start to have joint pains and arthritis is and these types of things of how How much of your your day-to-day process is not using rotation not using like different articulations that you need to be doing with your joints In order for them to feel stable and and able and active and so these are things that we're always trying to stress Because if you are consciously You know trying to make sure that these moves make their way into your everyday routines You're much more likely to to keep everything going in a positive direction. I mean your body You know the human body evolved to be to constantly be efficient and so what that means is that whatever you do Your body aims at becoming better at and more efficient at whatever you don't do Your body has no reason to maintain because whatever you're if your body needs to maintain a movement pattern or muscle It costs energy So imagine if like, you know You have like that you're like the CEO of a company and you're constantly evaluating the company and you're like, you know what? There's no market demand for this department right here. Why are we maintaining this department's costing resources? Let's move this department over here. Well, we need more resources So you lose it your body is constantly doing this is calling me pruning and focusing and adapting So absolutely what you what you don't use you lose what you don't practice you lose And what you do practice you get better at and more efficient at and so it's a constant You're always going to be reminding your body to do this There's never I remember talking to people about exercise and you know one of the objections Which I always thought was strange people would would have would be you know to hey Yeah, well, what if I build a bunch of muscles stop working out then what happens and like well It goes away like what do you think's gonna happen and that was their objection Well, I'm not gonna even start then if it's gonna go away. It's like well, well, that's dumb Yeah, everything works that way. There's nothing in the human body that doesn't work that way So absolutely continue to practice here, you know, like I rarely practice jumping and bounding And more recently I found that I'm starting to lose that skill It doesn't feel as comfortable to me and I remember like oh, yeah, I need to start practicing this If I want to maintain this particular skill