 Next question is from Michael Vanderloo. What are some unseen benefits of the farmers walk? Farmers walk. Oh, yeah, I didn't get into doing these until MAP Strong When we put out I've done farmers walks before I had to sell this on you guys Yeah, and in well, I mean for my for MAP Strong was obvious if well that one Yeah, you watch strongman competitions They have to hold stuff and walk on them, but you're right Justin You used to talk about them all the time as being great muscle builders But I always was like what what specific muscle am I working? You know, I know it's good for tension right and I understood on paper its value Yeah increasing muscle muscular tension, you know great for like reinforcing good posture And just overall a good muscle building exercise and just isometrics in general I've always been a fan just because it you know, it's really good for the joints to you know experience You know that kind of support where you know I'm getting my whole body to learn how to really brace and tense on command And still be able to to move and have that kind of support through movement So, you know for the farmers walk you can really load the farmer walk too So another thing that's great about like adding more of that volume and adding more of load Within your workouts like a farmer walk is a very easy way to do that One of the unseen benefits that I know and again Justin was somebody who really got me doing this I mean, I mean I can count on one hand how many times before him that I had probably incorporated a farmer walk It's now a pretty regular thing that I add in there and one of the things that I noticed and it reminded me of Took me all the way back to like my early 20s when I was training with these like power lifter guys and They were trying to get me to squat and like at that time I could like barely squat a plate and they stuck like three plates on my back and they're like They wanted me to squat and feel that and I'm like you're fucking crazy. I can even do two plates Why do I have three on here? And he's like your body needs to get acclimated to feel needs to feel the weight That's how they just explain you just need to learn to feel the weight And it wasn't what I noticed from that was he was right like, you know before that two plates was scary as fuck But once I felt what three plates felt on my back all of a sudden two plates Didn't feel so scary anymore and I think a similar unseen benefit from the the farmer carries because you could load them So heavy right a lot of people can can farmer carry more than they can chest press More than they can even squat more than they can deadlift Well, maybe not what they can deadlift because you got to deadlift it to get it up But most people can you can get a lot of weight. Yeah You can do a lot of weight doing the farmer carries and and you're moving walking right? So what I noticed with it and you're holding on to that when you're holding on to two three hundred pounds like that Then go try and grab a hundred pound dumbbells and chest press it all sudden I felt that to be a lot easier So I noticed like it turns your it turns your CNS your central nervous system on here's a here's an experiment that you could try right now Take your right hand and squeeze it as hard as you possibly can Now if you're doing that you'll notice that the rest of your body also tensed up now All you're trying to do is squeeze your right hand, but instinctually you tense your entire body other muscles I have nothing to do with your right hand You probably tensed up your left hand and your feet and your face and your core Just so you could squeeze your right hand more and that's instinctual because it works if you were an official It's if you were to squeeze a gripper with your right hand as hard as you could but keep the rest of your body Completely relaxed and then do it again, but this time tense up your whole body You're far stronger when you tense up your whole body even though the rest of the muscles of your body Directly have no effect right on that hand There's no direct effect, but there's this indirect CNS Signal that happens and what farmer walks do very well They like increase your amplitude they in a sense totally they turn Everything on and they they change the they they change the set point So think of it this way think of your central nervous system as having a Safety set point if you will your body will only let you Access a certain amount of your total potential. This is actually true. This is true Olympic lifters who train very very consistently at a Appropriate intensity and do very explosive movements. They have been tested at being able to hit Something like 90% of their total potential the average person is somewhere around 30 or 40 percent You just can't access the actual strength that you have and it's because your body trying to keep you safe It doesn't think it can but when you test it by doing a farmer walk where you're walking with this heavy weight And you got to do it right don't don't don't hurt yourself But to challenge yourself so you tense your your tight you're walking with it The whole body is working to maximize your output then when you go do the rest of your workout your CNS is your output Went up a little bit. You've now increased it by a couple percent within that workout This is literally within that day So they've done this with studies on on heavy lifting if you were to do like a heavy Single squat and then go jump you get a higher jump than if you didn't do the heavy single squat beforehand It just turns on your CNS It's like what I talked about the other day when you I go heavy deadlift and they go over to do pull-ups I feel like I just fly up when I start totally start doing the pull-ups and that that's what at the I'm not just like you feel that way. It's real. No, no, it's no It's obvious you can get way more reps out the weight will feel lighter when you're doing like do this Go do the farmer do heavy farmer walks And then go over and go do your your heavy chest press or go do heavy single dumbbell rows after that And you'll feel like the way you pull that weight or you push that weight do after you've just got used to holding on to 300-400 however much weight you can do a farmer walk with all sudden hundred-pound dumbbells don't feel like anything if you value Strength and performance at all you need to really value your central nervous system You could the reason why you're stronger when you have caffeine in your system and studies will prove this Consistently a certain amount of caffeine people will lift more weight or why people on PCP or crystal meth They're so hard for police to stop is because those are strong central nervous system stimulants The reason why a parent can lift a car off of their pinned child in an accident There's actual there's actual case studies where you have a 140 pound, you know mom Move a car to save their child. It's not because she needs to grill this new muscle It's because in that situation the CNS was turned on you can actually train this in your body farmer walks One of the best ways well, yeah, not just sad is to elongate that process so to build up that I always you know I talked about this ad nauseam about work capacity But it in terms of being able to control and maintain that level of tension This helps to train that so you can elongate the amount of force that you can produce in each exercise So, you know, if there's a point of a lift where you always struggle where you feel like, you know There's there's not as much power output This will help to kind of train you to sustain the the level of power output that you had going in