 First question is from I love Dallas Why should I do compound lifts so when I can build a good-looking body with isolation movements? Well, Debbie. Yeah, well first first of all Only if you're like in the 80s earlier, you'll get that we see our that's a So first of all that's the question Assumes something that's false. Okay, so can you develop a good-looking body with isolation movements better than doing nothing? But you definitely won't develop the full potential of your body without doing compound lifts compound lifts are just far more effective at Developing the body building muscle building more functional strength. They burn more calories. They'll speed up the metabolism better They're just far more effective So whatever body you can develop with isolation movements only number one You would have got there way faster had you incorporated compound and that number two you have you're not reaching your full potential I would say You can dig a pool with the shovel or a tractor. It's up to you I'm saying if you if you if you really want to use a shovel to do it you absolutely could And I guess if that's the approach you'd rather have but that's how big of a difference lifting those compound lifts will Accelerate your results fat loss building muscle strength So but that being said you could I mean I know I actually know a lot of a lot of guys that well I mean I competed with a lot of people that like did not train Compound lifts and they built some of the most competitive way. They did no compound lifts very little Wow Well, I mean bench for everybody bench presses, right? But I mean they're not they're not squatting not deadlifting or not overhead pressing So those those three which I think are three very important movements that you should be doing That most people bench press but I mean the overhead press the deadlift and the squat Are we're not in a lot of body? They weren't in my routine for a very long time. I was this guy Yeah, but you still did rose you still do right? Yeah, I did some other but I when I think of someone saying this I think of them. They're not doing the big ones, right? Yeah, like they're not doing the big compound lifts that are people because they're hard They're hard to get good at and so people avoid them, but that's what you gotta understand is that? What makes them so good and so valuable is the fact that they're hard is the fact that it has a Long it has a long period before you get really good and mastered if you if you do things And the body gets good at it and masters it really quick the results slow down you got to understand that so you know How hard is it to teach somebody how to do a tricep pushdown or a bicep curl? It's not very hard and because it's not very hard and it's easy to learn how to do that The results are quick you get some a little bit results as soon as you start doing it But then it falls off really fast because it's that easy to do it It's the things that have a that are very challenging for you to learn how to do that provide all This all these results because it's a it's a long time for the body to adapt and get good at it Yeah, this question just makes me cringe. Yeah, I like it like right away mainly because Just the overall function of your body I mean nobody if you this is your mentality if you just want to pump and air up your muscles and look You know decent in terms of like a balanced symmetrical physique and that's your only goal in life You still have to recognize the fact of how your body is going to move and function and be able to operate long-term and There's going to be problems that that occur from that when you segment your body into just single joint movements all the time You're not going to have that communication For your overall body like you would doing these compound lifts where we have to organize More muscle groups involved to really pull off Normal things in life like heavy objects. You got to move and do things and rotation and and and you know, you're gonna leave yourself susceptible to more Instances where an injury might occur I wish I understood this when I was younger because I I can understand where this person is coming I was definitely this I mean as a even as a trainer even having the knowledge of knowing that Oh compound lifts are supposed to be better for me. Yeah, I didn't care because I could build a physique But now where I'm out of my life boy, do I wish I would have pieced that together a lot earlier? I think I'd be further along I would have had to put in half the work that I put in to get to where I'm at physique wise and And I love that I understand this now today as a father and being so busy with business and everything else I don't have the same Commitment to the gym as I did just five years ago competing when I'm in there seven days a week training hard for an hour An hour and a half every single day It just doesn't look like that anymore Sometimes I get 30 minutes and sometimes that's only two or three times a week and if I was doing isolation exercises I would see like nothing Like I literally you if you're only training a half hour an hour You know and maybe on a good week two or three hours in a week of training And you're doing bicep curls tricep pushdowns and lateral raises and in peck deck You weren't seeing shit as far as well But I tell you what and that little bit time if all I'm doing is overhead pressing squatting Deadlifting rowing bench pressing just those those five major movements If I'm doing just those things in that time what you could do to accomplish that and that a little bit of time I'm like maintaining a decent physique. Yeah, this you know what this reminds me of Reminds me of those like kit cars that you could buy where you you put like that car together It looks like a Ferrari, but it's got like a you know four-cylinder Honda engine. It's all patched together Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to me because I want to look good But I also want to be able to move and be strong And isolation movements just get crushed when it comes to performance But again the results you're going to get are just you're going to get there faster and you're going to get further With the most effective exercises Then you would if you did the exercises that are not as effective and also It's really hard to make up for them. In other words, I can't think of Six or maybe even eight isolation movements all done together With lots of sets in volume that would be equivalent to five sets of squats You know you could take a bunch of isolation exercises and put them together and say i'm not squatting But i'm doing all these isolation. I got one for quads. I got one from inner thighs Outer thighs glutes and hamstrings and calves put them all together still not going to equal one exercise That's how effective they are so You know like adam said you can you can do things the hard way or you could do things the easier way It makes no sense to me why Somebody would want to go the long route and do it the in a way that would result in less strength and mobility