 Next question is from, I am your man's 666 wet dream. Wow. Holy cow. It's a bold name. That's confident. Yeah. What do you think about bench pressing with feet off the floor? I would say dumb until Sal started telling people to do it. No. You do not, no do not bench press with your feet off the floor unless you're going to do a what's called a guillotine press variation in which case you have to have good shoulder mobility, good stability, it's an advanced exercise and there's a reason for that. It brings the chest down, elbows flare out, you get more upper chest activation. If you're bench pressing like a traditional bench press and you take your feet off the floor, you're not bench pressing anymore. You've created a brand new exercise and it's not a good idea. Your stability comes from your lower body when you're bench pressing, taking the feet off the floor. That started by the way back in the day. I know I did it back in the day. Well, the reason why it started was because guys would cheat when they bench, they push their butt up off the bench so people take your feet off the floor, now you can't cheat all of a sudden. Well, okay, just don't push your butt off the bench and you're okay. So that's not why I did it. When I was a trainer and I will admit this, I taught this, it was terrible. It was in the height of the core movement, you know. It was all about- Incorporate the core. Yes. So that was it. I'm bench press and I was all about, you know, incorporating more core work into all my other movements. And so anytime that I can challenge instability in an exercise, in my eyes as a trainer back then, it was a superior movement. Not only are we working the chest, but now we're challenging that core. And I used to have this pitch that the, you know, you have two, the most important muscle in your body is your heart. Without it, you're dead. The next most important muscle is your core. So everything is about the core and trying to challenge that in every movement. So the thought process for me stemmed from that early on as a trainer pushing the core all the time. It's a terrible idea. I remember when you brought up on the podcast talking about the guillotine press, I'm like, oh God, Sal, if you share this now, we're going to have people going and doing this. And most people doing it just, they have no business doing it. There's no reason for you to try and do that movement. Super novelty exercise. Yeah. And you got, you need to have been trained for a very, very long time like Sal. Understand biomechanically well, got great form and have already done all the other exercises that are superior to that movement before playing with it. If you're an advanced lifter, you get all that by all means have fun, you know, and there's lots of exercises you can play with. But I would never teach a client today of putting your feet up on the bench because of the simple fact of what you just said, you put your feet up and it flattens the back. When it flattens the back, it also naturally starts to attract people's shoulders forward, which everybody, Plus you lose all your ground forces. Yeah. For lifting for power and stuff like that, that makes sense. But I'm talking about just for even just a louder signal, like, like if it's a true compound lift, you know, you got to incorporate your whole body. Sure. Sure. But that's not even the number one reason why most people don't feel it in their chest when they press. It has nothing to do with their feet. It has everything to do with their, their shoulders and with the position. Yeah. Yeah. Almost every client that I ever did a bench press with at least 80% of them did not feel it in their chest when we first started doing it. They fill in their shoulders and their arms. And that is because they do not know how to retract, depress the shoulders, keep them in that position while they bench press in order to machine. I guess is my point. Like if that's your focus, like go do a machine press. Like the beauty of it is that, you know, you're going to incorporate your legs and that's going to be a big part of like amplifying that signal. So now I can actually load, you know, substantially more weight because I'm incorporating the fact that my entire core and my legs are driving, you know, in, in, in implementing that into the press. So it's, it's a lot more going on, you know, than it just looks like I'm pressing this weight off my chest. You're actually making the bench press less effective. Yeah. When you take your feet off the floor. Unless again, you're doing a variation, a specific novelty, you know, very strange variation in which case you really need to know what you're doing. But otherwise it just makes the bench press less effective. So you take your feet up. Okay. You've reduced the effectiveness of a great exercise. You know, congratulations. That's basically what you've done. Well, yeah, then it becomes like I was doing, which was not a good idea is it now becomes a better core exercise and it becomes a better chest exercise. So that, I mean, and that was the thought process for me, which was silly and not a good idea. But I really think that just press on a physical ball. Yeah. I mean, I think Justin's point is right, but I don't think that's the main argument to make here. The main argument to make is that most people have a hard time using their chest when they bench press. Taking your feet up off the ground is only going to make that harder. It's not going to make it easier or more effective. Yeah.