 Next question is from Carly Oseka. What value does a Zercher squat provide that a front squat doesn't? I find that the pain of holding the bar in the crook of my arms for a Zercher squat limits the weight I can lift way before my muscle strength does. So I wonder if I should just front squat instead. Yeah, a few things with this. So you'll get this argument too with the wrists. So the wrists are, if you're actually performing a front squat, like a lot of people can't really, they don't have the mobility in the wrists to even kind of pull that off. And so they'll fold their arms and, you know, so there's different techniques. Also like with the Zercher, you know, this is where I do like recommend you probably put a pad there if that's an issue for you. Like you could solve a lot of, you know, that discomfort with just, you know, one of those pads there. But really like just having the weight in a different place, you're gonna get a different type of recruitment and you're gonna receive a different benefit from that. So it's just, look at it as a different exercise completely. Two totally different exercises. Yes, the weight is in front of you on both of them. But one of them, the weight is down closer to your midline. You have a longer lever. It's not a deadlift, so it's not your full arm, but it is at the elbow. So you have a lever in front of you. It's gonna, the different placing of the weight is gonna activate and work your muscles a little bit differently. A Zercher squat mimics how you tend to pick things up and lift them more than even a deadlift. Because when you hold things- You keep it in real close. You tend to hold it real close. I never did Zercher squats until we wrote maps strong and then we put Zercher's in there. And performance first. And performance, right? And I started to do them more often. And what I noticed from them was mid-back development, glute development. I got more glute activation with the Zercher squat than I did with the front squat, for sure. It's actually Jessica's favorite squat now. Well, it's, I mean, there's a reason why it's in performance and it's in strong and it's not programmed in every other program, right? So I don't think it needs to be a staple exercise for everybody, but when you talk about functional training, that's why it's in performance. And obviously for strongmen, lifts and stuff, that type of training is extremely important to be able to pick up stones and whatever the other atlas, whatever the atlas stones and what are the other- Yeah, and like sandbags and everything else that are very centric to the body. Right, it makes a ton of sense. And when you think about what you, if you were to bend over in real life and pick up something that weighed a hundred and something pounds or more, think about exactly how you would carry it. Bags of concrete, bags of dog food, things from Costco, boxes. Even if you pick up your friend or your spouse or whatever, kids, furniture, couch, whatever. Anything is gonna be close to the midline like that. You're gonna hold it in tight and you're gonna pick it up, right? So yeah, it's a very functional exercise to emulate things that you would probably do in real world. You get strong at doing that. You're less likely to hurt yourself doing one of those movements. Now, talking about it for only building muscle or burning body fat, like yeah, if I had a client that that's all they cared about, they're not looking for real-world functional strength and they're saying, Adam, can I do a different exercise besides this that bothers me so much or I hate it? Then yeah, I would exchange it with another movement. But obviously if this person is doing this and it's something we programmed, they're following either performance or strong, which I would think you're interested in either the strong lifts and movements, which this obviously pertains to that, or you're interested in performance and real-world strength, which is what performance is all about. Yeah, and what I like about the Zercher II is like, again, you have a barbell so you can load that substantially. If it's a goal of yours to get really strong in that lift, like the Atlas Stones, very similar in terms of like, except you're gonna do a little bit more rounded back lifting with that, which is challenging because not a lot of people, it's not an ideal posture to be in, but it's also important to strengthen that to be able to navigate through that position because that's a real-world position you're gonna be in. Yeah, it's the good kind of rounded back lifting, right? So rounded back, I'm not referring to rounded lower back or bad posture, I'm referring to the shoulder blades not being pinned back, but rather being slightly rounded forward, which is how you lift things in the real world. And that position right there, you wanna get stronger too. You don't wanna just have a strong back with your shoulder blades pinned back. You want them to be strong with your shoulder blades in different positions. Zercher squats encourage, that's why I noticed I got good mid-back development from it. Yeah, we're not posture robots.