 All right, our first question is from Apple Saucy 714 is Simple yoga at home a few times a week a good mobility plan. You know what? It's been a while since I think we address this and I'm glad whoever picked this question. I think it's a good question to talk about because That's probably one of the number one things that clients that I used to talk to About mobility would get confused. They'd be like, oh, I'd say. Oh, yeah. No, we need to work on your move Oh, yeah. No, I do my yoga every Saturday. Yeah, and and we're all different and we're all very pro yoga, right? I want to make that clear before I explain this that I think yoga is an incredible practice I think that if you have the time to fit it into your schedule, I think it's awesome But I also think that a big part of why I think it's awesome is more for the meditative side of it More so than like the corrective Or joint health side of it, which let me explain When you go through a yoga class, it is It's very generic the whole entire class the drawback of all classes, right? Exactly It's the same exactly it's the same drawback that you would do with any classes It's not addressing your specific needs and you know when I'm training a client I got ten different clients. I have ten different clients in front of me and All ten of them are very very different and all ten of them have now There's some there's some general exercises or move mobility movements that I teach all of them because they all could use it For example, you know a lizard with rotation or a 90 90 tends to be a go-to for all of them They all tend to lack good hip mobility. It's just very common as we age We just don't move in the transverse plane anymore. And so, you know doing 90 90 lizard with rotation Which also addresses a little thoracic mobility those two tend to like kind of cover everybody But then there's a lot of other little nuances in in their specific movements where they lack and that I would look at and go Okay, you know, she needs to be doing more of this and I would prescribe to her I say listen, I want you to do let's say the combat stretch You need to be doing that one every day three times a day because more joint specific Yeah, because hurt let's say her ankle mobility is horrible But then her husband is just he's an engineer and he's on the computer all day long and his is like Thoracic mobility has the rounded so like handcuffed a rotation. I'm like he's got to do that one like crazy Now that's the problem with yoga is it's like you kind of get this broad stroke of all these different movements that are not specific to the person not only that but they are Stationary static stretching for the most part depending on what the goals to end up getting into the pose Which is well the end goal. So I have to I have to counter a little bit of that because yoga the done properly Yoga is an active There's a lot of active stretching that's going on if you if you talk to most yoga instructors and it depends on the yoga If you're doing a yen exactly, you're doing a yen yoga. There's there's some status stretches, but you know, you do Which is the most popular one by the way? No, no vinyasa vinyasa vinyasa flow classes are the most popular ones yen Are they? Yeah, absolutely. And if in when you do a vinyasa type class And you're doing it with a good instructor. They are when it comes to cues I'll say this right and this is and I'll stand by this all day long You know when it comes to curing people Yeah, yoga instructors are the best in the business the best group instructors in the world Cuing people to move their pot. They're positioning a scoop scoop your hips tuck your tailbone You know, you know look up tall the way they are able to queue is so good That taking if you're a trainer take a yoga class to learn just the cues alone because I think they're phenomenal Cuz the class is so you know slow-paced to where like every little incremental movement They can kind of capture and describe in better detail That's why I love of all the yo see here's the thing of all the group exercise type classes you can do yoga yoga Focus is the most on form. It's the only one that I don't think should die No, they think I talk about group class training should die for the most part But yoga is something that generally speaking anybody and everybody that takes yoga is it's going to be good It is and you are active in the poses. So you are getting functional flexibility. You are getting mobility In terms of group exercise classes, it's the best mobility bait type group exercise class I think they're phenomenal But the drawback is like what Adam's saying the drawback with the yoga class is the same drawback you would get with any group class It's general and not individualized Individualized mobility training is superior because it's for you. It's just for your individual body You're doing mobility movements to correct your particular issues and problems This was look. This is one of the the major challenges we had When we created both maps prime and prime pro the big big challenge We I remember we created maps prime. We all went off to I think it was Reno We got ourselves a place out in the out in the nowhere and we all sat there And we were stuck for almost two days on how we could create an element that would allow people to individualize Their mobility and priming work like how can you do that? We're selling a program that everybody could buy we could put general mobility stuff in there But then that's not what we're all about How can we individualize this is so crazy because when I assess a client There's all kinds of things I look at and how I'm going to teach the average person to do that So we had to come up with something that was totally Breakthrough and revolutionary that does not exist in the industry except for in maps prime Which is a compass test that allows the person to test their body and then identify how their individual body Needs to be primed and the the individual mobility movements They didn't need to do on their own body maps prime pro does the same thing But it's individual tests for each of the major joints and that's the value of mobility work The value mobility work is the how it's individualized because that's we're gonna get the most benefit So my clients that like love the yoga classes and then have asked me like okay Well, then what do I do for my mobility time or what should I do instead of my yoga class? And that's exactly I direct them to prime pro and I say and I normally start with them to keep it simple pick You know three to five tops of the movements out of there that you fail at the worst like that You're that you struggle with the most okay pick three five tops and literally spend an entire hour Working on those those movements just like you within a yoga class breathe take your time Connect yes connect use and do the movements with intent. You're not trying to just move through it fast So make it meditative like a yoga class, you know, enjoy it relax while you're doing it between movements But spend the entire hour on those three to five movements man you do that and the value is Incredible you're getting every bit of the value you would get from the yoga class and a ton more because it's specific to you Well, think about it this way Okay, all your exercises your whole workout has the value that it's providing you But there's also a potential of value that it could provide you okay And oftentimes the potential of value you can get from your workout is much more than what you're actually getting out of your Workout in other words if it were if we put this in terms of points Let's say your total workout your exercises could provide you with a hundred points of value But because your range of motion isn't great Because you lack mobility to do full ranges of motion because you're not connecting to your body in optimal ways Maybe you're only getting 70 percent at or 70 points out of that workout That's the value of mobility work. It literally makes your current workouts far more effective I notice this with clients through yoga, okay, and by the way you can do this with yoga If you take a yoga class the poses that are the hardest for you to do practice those at home Right, that means you're probably you're addressing Individual issues for yourself So if you like to take yoga classes and you're like, okay How can I individualize this a little bit besides having a higher and yoga instructor just to teach me? Think of the hardest poses that you get into like whatever it can be any pose It could be warrior one and like okay when I do warrior one my neck gets tight my shoulders get tight I'm not able to hold that position practice that one at home all the time and you'll get some of that individualized Success that you can get from individualized mobility. Yeah, I like to think of mobility is purely it's strength training at the end of the day Like I in terms of flexibility training There's there's specific times where I'm like highlighting that with my clients But for the most part if you're talking about a good mobility plan it is it's you want to you want to make it So you're really connecting by you know Tensing up the muscle and and making it into an actual active Strength type of an exercise. Yeah So if you come in with that mentality and you're bringing in like those tough poses that for a reason are giving you a hard time because you're not as Strong and and you know connected in that area of your body You know, you're gonna do yourself a lot more justice. Well, I remember the first couple times I took yoga I had a completely My I had so many misconceptions about it So I took the class and I thought okay We're gonna get in these poses and we're gonna kind of stretch and stay in these poses. No man The instructor walk around is like, you know, I'm standing in this pose that looks passive But it's not you know, push your feet apart or bring your feet in Drive the energy out through your fingertips drive energy through your head Really what they were teaching me to do through yoga is a lot of how we teach people to use to do priming movements Right, you don't just sit in 90. It's all about the intent. Yes, you know You're not just sitting in 90 90 you're sitting in 90 90 But you're creating energy up through your spine down through your knees It could be massively productive or worthless. Totally depending on your mentality 100%