 Question is from Oliver J. Murph. Can you build a good core by only doing compound lifts and mobility exercises like the ones in Maps Prime? Or should you incorporate special AB and core exercises as well? So I used to, for a while, I was in this camp and I did heavy squats, heavy dead lifts, heavy overhead presses. Because you're stabilizing all that weight with your core. You are, right? So my core is strong enough to stabilize a 350-pound squad or a 500-pound deadlift or over a press or whatever. And so I'm like, okay, my core is perfectly strong. And then at some point, I wanted to start developing my abs so that they could become more visible. And I thought, well, I'm gonna start doing some more direct work. And I realized just how weak my abs were. Because when you get stronger, the strength that you gain tends to be quite pretty specific to the way you're gaining that strength or to the stimulus. So my core was strong to stabilize for squats, deadlifts, and overhead presses. But it wasn't super strong to do crunches and leg raises and cable chops because I never did that. Well, think of it no different than any other muscle. Imagine if the only type of exercises you did for your biceps were isometrics. If you only did that, now you could actually build a little bit of muscle. And you could have decently strong biceps by doing just isometric holds for your bicep. You could get some value out of that. But you're missing out on it. Yeah, you're missing out on a tremendous by not using the full range of motion and the eccentric and centric portion of the exercise. Isometric is one of the three and one of the more important ones for sure. And I think you can get by. Like at least you have some core work being done there. If you're squatting 350 pounds or deadlifting 500 pounds, you definitely got a pretty strong core to stabilize and support. But it's not gonna contract very well or decelerate really well. So there's definitely value in that. This is an area if I'm being completely transparent with my own programming that I neglect, I'm bad at. And I know I need to do it better. And I can always tell when I've been neglecting it for a really long time is my low back starts to bother me. And because I have that anterior pelvic tilt and sure I can hold my core in that position, but to correct that I should be doing like reverse crunches a lot more than what I'm currently doing. And whenever I get on it and I start to incorporate into my routine, I always feel the relief because it better supports my low back too. I was just talking to Sal about this. I've been a little bit more intentional about putting like sit ups and crunches and rotational moves, like wood chops and things like that into my routine again because of that simple fact of like already trying to address my posture just from sitting more often and then also sitting in my truck and like commuting back and forth and already starting to feel the effects of that on my joints and like just the way that I wake up in the morning having certain pains I shouldn't have, but it's really like I need to put more emphasis and attention back on my core instability. Well, here's an example of like where I, it's like I'm so aware of this. So when I hold max, like when I get him up in the middle of the night and I have to rock him to sleep and he's in front of me, right? After about like five or 10 minutes I start to feel my low back. And the way I relieve that is I squeeze my glutes and I rotate my pelvis under which is activating my lower abdominals to kind of rotate my pelvis. And that's because I'm weak there because I don't train it. So default is it kicks out. I'm holding a baby in front of me. Now I feel this look. You want to sit back on it? Right, and then I feel this in my low back. And so now at least I'm aware of that and I can, while I'm holding him I'll actually almost do like an ab crunch while I'm sitting there rocking him to try and get some work out of it. But that's always glaring to me that I'm not doing enough work on my abs. And just because I heavy deadlift and squat it's not enough for support. Yeah, you know where this came from, right? Where this myth or whatever came from. It came from power lifters. It came from power lifters who didn't want to work out their abs. Yeah, basically. True, I squat deadlift and overhead, bench press and do all these other. I don't need to do abs. Plus I have a belly anyway. This is kind of a stereotype, but a lot of power lifters really don't care too much about aesthetics. Yeah. Makes sense. Your sport is to lift the max weight, right? Although I do know some really lean power lifters, a lot of them could care less and so abs is kind of like a show muscle. Lookin' Ben Pollock, bro. Yeah, I know. Yeah, he's a unicorn. And it also reminds me, it reminds me. Yeah, but look at all the work he does on his abs. Yeah. What he knows. I mean, no, have you ever talked to Ben? Like, Ben, that's in everything. I mean, that's why partly there's planks and there's ab work in all of his stuff that he does, incredibly strong abs. And this also reminds me of athletes who don't like to work out their biceps. Why do I work out my biceps? That's a bodybuilder muscle. Well, your biceps help stabilize the elbow. It helps decelerate extension. So if you're a boxer or football players a lot of times, don't want to work their biceps because it's all about pushing. But you notice more injuries when you have imbalances. It's really, you know, here's the thing. And we all have this. We'll have the body part. We don't necessarily like to work as much as the others. But really, if you want to maximize your potential for performance, minimize your risk of injury, balance is the key. And regardless of what you do, that means you should train the whole body, including the core. That's right. Cavs are the only worthless one. Yeah. Just be born with it.