 Question is from Freeman Axtel. Are there any benefits to stability training or using tools like a bossu ball? Absolutely. Yes, but boy was it overstated for a while. No, no, no, this reminds me of like what we talked about in the intro today. Like, you know, leave it to fucking the fitness community to take something where there's some good science to support the benefits of something. And then we just bastardized the shit out of it. And we just, now it's for everybody and we're doing, we're balancing everything on a dyna disc or on a bossu ball or on a foam pad and trying to make workouts. Because it's harder. Yeah, it's more difficult. Where, yes, there is, I think there's incredible benefits and there's definitely an application for specific people. But that's just it. It's like, you know, I use tools like this for a client that it makes practical sense, especially like in the rehab area. Like when you're dealing with rehabilitation, using tools to stabilize somebody or challenge their stability is a great way for you to help that support all the muscles that are supporting a joint or an area that was injured, that there's a lot of benefits to that. I see it a lot of times is like in a regression. So if I get somebody that is coming in and I notice instability all over the place, like this is an area that we're really gonna have to focus on just like strength training. Like this is something that we need to gain that type of awareness and get the body to respond properly in unstable positions. That way, now when we're in stable positions, everything is working in unison and we can then build upon that. There's a few components that go into your ability to balance. Now we're talking about healthy individuals, okay? So barring any buddy that has nervous system or disorders or vestibular system disorders. Let's just say everybody's healthy here. So we're comparing healthy people to each other. Balance comes from a few different places. Generally speaking, strength is great for balance. So if you're strong, you're probably gonna have better balance than somebody who's healthy, but that's also weak. So like when I would train older people, just getting them stronger would dramatically improve their balance because now they can move with better stability and strength. Now more specifically, balance is a skill just like any other skill. So give you an example, if you practice balancing on a, let's say you're walking across a skinny pole or something, the more you practice it, the better you get at it because your balance, you tend to build it as a skill. Now is there carryover into the rest of your life? Yes, somewhat. Most of it is to the specific skill. Some of it goes to the rest of your life. Now in the past, it was overstated. In the past, it was like, we're doing this on everything, which there's no former training that should be applied to everything. It'd be like, powerlifting's got great benefits. Everybody powerlifts all the time. No, same thing with balance. But that being said, incorporating some components of balance, which for the average person could be as simple as doing single leg exercises. Exactly, there's levels and we have to, yeah, definitely a good point to start like stable and then like now we're going one leg, now we're going on something that is like an air desk like where it's something that's a little bit more challenging. So that way it is like you're increasing the level of difficulty as part of the training and then we move on from there. I think the most applicable type of balance training is just the one-legged type stuff. It's the most applicable to the real world. It's the thing you're going to be doing in the real world. You can experience that the most. Yeah, that's where I would say the most application. Well, I mean, here's an example. This is literally a conversation that I was having this last week with a client friend of mine. So she's an old client. She's also a really good friend of ours. And I hadn't seen her in probably six months. She stopped by. She lives in LA area. She came up to visit Katrina and I and she wanted me to kind of like assess her. She just went and saw her orthopedic friend that checked her out. And she said, she first saw a doctor and this doctor prescribed her insoles for a shoe. And I said, what? I said, absolutely not. I said, I'll see you when you come down. Like I don't want you doing that. Let me look at you. And I had told her before that this could be an issue with her. And what it is is she has a peronial tendonitis. And a lot of that is because she has, she excessively pronates on one side. So her foot's flat. Right. So her foot flattens out on one side or pronates, right? So it flattens in inward or collapses inward. This is really common. I see this a lot in people squatting. This was an issue for myself. And so this was also a close to home thing as I'm helping her out with it. And so what I told her we needed to do is we needed to do soft tissue work to alleviate some of that. Okay. So here's where you have application for tools like foam rolling or lacrosse balls to do the soft tissue work on hers to alleviate some of the pain that she's having. And then we need to strengthen your ankle and your feet. And so exercise is to do that. Now I, she loves, when I recently got her into deadlifting and squatting like heavy in the last year and she's seen incredible progression and changed her body and she loves being strong. She was like one of those girls that was all circuit type training. I showed her strength training and changed her life. Now here's the drawback was, well, she started deadlifting and squatting really, really heavy while also having these flat feet. This caused the peroneal tendonitis. And now I'm having to reverse her back out of that and say, listen, back off of the intensity. I don't want you doing any, you know, deadlifting with both feet on the ground anymore. So now we do soft tissue work. We work on your feet, strengthen that. We do some ankle strength exercises. And then what I want you doing is deadlifting on one leg. And then when you deadlift on one leg, I want you to focus more on the stability and the control of that more so than you trying to get more weight up. And so here's an example of how stability training is incredible and a tool that as a trainer, you probably use all the time. What ended up happening though is the science, the support, the benefits of why a trainer like myself would prescribe something in that situation just like the example I just gave with the foam rolling. We take that and now it's for everybody and everybody should do it and do it all the time. And then we start doing it on, you know, oh wow. Well, if you can do it on one leg, try doing it on a foam pad. Now try doing it on a boseball. Now try and hop and then balance and do it. So we just, we take something really good that has an application. Because it looks cool and it's hard, you know? Right.