 Next question is from Terry, New York, 19, does walking count as cardio or should I incorporate some steady-state cardio like running and or HIIT? What will keep me healthy while maintaining the most lean mass? It's definitely not cardio. Yeah. It's activity. It keeps your cardiovascular system healthy, keeps your body healthy. It's the best form of activity to do on a regular daily basis that would be closely related, more closely related to cardio than other forms. I would say it's the best. Here's a couple of reasons why. Number one, now running is not necessarily bad. The problem with running is nobody runs right. We don't grow up running. We tend to not run and then all of a sudden as adults decide we're going to run for exercise so technique is off and we don't have to run properly and we overdo it and we hear it ourselves and it just becomes very inefficient and ineffective. But walking, we still do. We walk all the time. So having someone walk more usually is going to produce lots of problems, great, great form of activity. It's great for health. It's my preferred form of activity for me and for a lot of the clients that I've trained in the past. Now, had you asked me this as an early trainer, I would have laughed and said walking doesn't count as anything. It's a waste of time. Go do cardio. I know a lot better now. I know now the benefits of walking and if the average person who just wanted to be lean, fit, strong, look good. If all they ever did was lift weights a couple days a week, did that effectively and then walked every single day, made it a point to do a couple walks every single day, they would have all their ducks lined up. They would be pretty well off forever. Well, the thing is that what you have to take into consideration with cardio also is is this something that you can maintain for the rest of your life? Because if you use cardio to lose body fat, which most people are using it for, lose body fat, get lean, get to the body type or the body look that you're trying to accomplish, and you use it to get there, in order to keep that body, you're going to have to maintain that. You're going to have to keep that up or significantly adjust your calories, which a lot of people wouldn't know how to exactly do that if they start to eliminate. If you are going to use cardio as a tool like that, you want to use it judiciously because you don't know if it's something that you're going to do for the rest of your life. Now, if you're someone who loves to run, I'm talking totally different to that person. If you enjoy running and it's meditative for you, you could consistently see yourself going for a jog three to four times a week for the rest of your life and you really like it. I would never discourage somebody from doing that, but it's a lot easier to incorporate walking throughout the day for people and clients, and so I've just had way more success like speaking to step counts and saying, listen, okay, we've tracked to see where you're at right now. You want to lean out a little bit more. Looks like we're averaging 6,000 to 8,000 steps. Okay. Going forward now, I want you to get to 10,000 steps, and the way I want you to do that is you can either do it all in one, you know, 45 minutes to an hour walk, or you can break it up in small 10, 20 minute walks after every meal throughout the day or when you start your day. What I find with clients that utilize walking like that to lean themselves out and get in shape, it's more sustainable. It's something that they can continue to do forever, probably because you could multitask while you're walking. I used to get on a treadmill and answer my emails and do things while I'm actually moving and burning calories. It's just more realistic to do it long term, unless you're somebody that absolutely loves to do cardio. Yeah, I just think a lot of people feel they have to do it. They have to do jogging, they have to do running, they have to do that to be able to reduce their body fat, and I've totally, there is a whole another way you can approach this, and just like the step count, I definitely lean a little bit more in that direction in terms of neat and overall activity for the day. I look at it more from a, can I be more productive? Can I be up and active and cleaning? Can I do things? Can I put things away? Can I get up and just make sure that I'm just constantly on the move? And you look and you see where that ends up at the end of the day, and it's pretty crazy in eye-opening what that produces in comparison to just like this hour of running you've devoted, where you've literally just sat there like a hamster staring at the wall, which to me is like, I just, I think that's like a slow death. I don't want to do that. So, you know, it's all about your preference. Like you can definitely do if you enjoy it and you like being outside running, jogging, I get that. But for me, I just want to make sure that like I'm contributing, I'm productive and I can wrap that all into my overall activity for the day, which then helps keep my body fat at a certain amount.