 First question is from b-boy warrior. How do elite gymnasts get so strong and perform so well despite such a high training Frequency with not a lot of rest. Oh good question. Love this question. So so here's why okay? gymnasts do not go out and practice their their moves on the rings and on the horse and all that stuff as a Workout they are practicing. They're constantly practicing. This is what we talk about on the podcast This is a very valuable thing to understand with your training gymnasts get phenomenal results in physically even though they're not necessarily training for that remember gymnasts aren't necessarily training To build and sculpt their bodies They're trying to get better at all of the positions and moves that they do in their stability And so they don't go out there thinking to themselves. I'm gonna hammer my biceps I'm gonna hammer my shoulders on my hammer my legs They go out there and think I'm gonna practice and perfect the skill and when you're practicing a skill You don't practice a skill to fatigue where you can't do it anymore because then you're not able to practice it, right? Not to mention that proprioception is the foundation to all pursuits So body awareness right body awareness and I I don't think there is a sport That focuses on that more than Jim. Yeah, that's your base. I mean we remember the maybe divers or not even Yeah, Jim Jim is still because everything a diver does for body control a gymnast does and some so their their body control and awareness of their body in space is Beyond almost every other athlete by a ton in fact when we did that at that interview with Chad Wesley You know we talked about you know if you were to pick a sport that would you know lay the foundation for the super athlete Yeah, it would be gymnastics was well that totally resonated me. That's my kids are doing parkour That's why they're doing things like that where it's like exploring all these different ways to move the body and become aware of You know the position that they're in and how to then kind of work their way out of it Gymnasts are masters at this and to be fair like gymnasts like this is really taxing on the body They're really they're not old you don't see a lot old gymnast because you know It is very demanding like this frequency in this style of training is really hard on the body But you know like they they'll do max effort, but they do rest quite a bit And they're just trying to make sure that they're constantly practicing the skill and sharpening the skill of it So I don't know if I told you guys or not, but I plan to enroll It's I think it's called like tumbling or something early on and I forget how old max needs to be when when I enroll in that Yeah, 100% I will do that and hope that it's something he enjoys and likes doing and it's funny because I think you know My generation and definitely the generation before that would be like totally frowned upon as a you know Enrolling your son in gymnastics to be you know that would be totally demasculinizing him to put him in something like that Or it's one of the best investments I've ever made my life and I will recommend this to anybody who has boys is get get a trampoline get a huge trampoline That's like, you know in covered in cased They have they have their skills and their body awareness like went up a thousand percent after that And they're just they just live on that thing It's one thing they always go to jump flip and they just experiment they figure their body out. Yeah, they move Yeah, gymnasts are were one of the The things that motivated me or inspired me to come up with the trigger session concept for maps anabolic because I had gymnasts that worked for me as trainers And I remember just being blown away by their muscular development of their arms in particular Now with I used to think to myself like, you know, they're not Trained a failure and they're not letting their biceps rest a full week before they hit them again Like how is this even possible? And so I started thinking about this over and over again and really it's the Frequent practice. It's the frequent stimulation. So it would be the different It would be like if you went to the gym and you practiced squatting benching overhead pressing and rowing You know four or five days a week not Going out there to hammer yourself in fact not Trying not to be sore. That's right Your goal is to go out there and just practice these movements and get really really good at them So that someone could look at you and say, wow, that's the best-looking squad I've ever seen If you did that with that level of frequency the side effect of that would be lots of muscular development You built really really strong Muscles and you would build quite a bit of muscle doing that now Just doing that I don't think is the formula for maximal muscle gain But it is a great formula for muscle gain, which is why you see gymnasts looking the way they do But there's one more piece of that. Okay I don't I also think it's not fair to look at a high level athlete and look at their muscular development and say Okay, if I train like them, I'm going to look like them because there's a bit of a of a selection bias When you're looking at that high level of an athlete when you're looking at, you know Top state level, you know, you know, maybe your nationwide champion or or worldwide champion gymnast You're looking at people who train a lot for years and years and you're totally dedicated Will also have extremely amazing genetics for that given sport So same reason might look if you swam and you swam like crazy and you train like an olympic swimmer You'll never be michael felts Yeah, you're not going to get short legs and a long torso and long arms for it You know michael felts was born with the genes to have short legs long torso flat rib cage and long arms Which happens to make you give you an advantage in swimming So you're not going to necessarily look like a gymnast by training them The best way to build muscle is to understand this on some of these concepts and inject it in your training And if you follow like a maps program, you'll see and you'll notice Although it's much more common nowadays, but especially when we first came out five years ago It wasn't common to see a resistance training routine that had you training your whole body three days a week It just wasn't we were the ones that really come out and say hey, this is actually what works better Now you're starting to see more and more people doing it and it came from watching people and athletes like gymnast