 Our first caller is KC from Washington. KC, what's up, man? How can we help you? Hey, Sal, how's it going? Really appreciate you guys. So I'm new, a longtime listener, first-time caller, and I am in the final phase of Anabolic, and it's going really well. And I want to get bigger arms. I feel like the rest of me, like proportionately, I'm doing great and Anabolic has been a fantastic program to go through. So I purchased the bicep and tricep mods. And what I'm curious is, with the length of each of the foundational workouts in Anabolic already, what's the best way to incorporate those mods? Like, can I incorporate both of them? Should I replace all of the bicep-tricep workouts in each foundational exercise with all of the modification parts? Should I just go through the bicep mod first, or just do the tricep one? Or add a fourth, quote-unquote, foundational day where I just do the bicep and tricep mod exercises? I'm curious about the best way to incorporate this. Good question. Okay, so for people who aren't familiar, so we have mods that we created for specific body parts and literally they're designed to be plugged into our current programs to replace the workouts for those corresponding body parts in those workouts. For example, let's say you get the glute mod. You want to build your butt. What you do is you would take your maps program, take out the glute workout that's already in there, and replace it with the mod. And what the mods are is typically increased volume, you know, some more exercises, and essentially what you're doing is you're trying to bring up a lagging body part. So the second thing, the second option that you kind of brought up is exactly how you would use this mod. So you would take maps at Anabolic, take out the bicep and tricep workout that's already in there, and then replace it with the mod so that you're placing a little bit more focus on the arms or the area that you want to focus on. Does that make sense? Yeah. Excellent. So it's really, it's exactly how it works. So if there's other body parts, you do the same thing. Now it's typically not recommended that you combine mods because there's a lot of volume if you do it that way. But this is really, and really Adam's expertise came a lot. We utilize quite a bit in this because of his experience competing. And one thing that he did through his career, and I'll let him touch on this, is he was able to bring up specific body parts. And the way he did it was he would focus on one at a time. Like he didn't focus on all of them at the same time because it's just too much volume, too many, you know, too much going on. He would focus one at a time. So maps at Anabolic as it's laid out, but you replace the bicep and tricep workouts with the mod that you purchased so you could bring up your arms. We also created them with the intention of that. If you wanted to stay in something like Maps Anabolic, you could run it the way it is exactly. And then let's say in your example that you were trying to bring up your arms, you could run it back a second time and then now you plug in the mod. So it gives you this exercise variation and in addition to that, also increased volume for those specific areas. And Sal's right. Like not that you couldn't technically do another mod in there also, but then you're starting to get a ton of volume and then I would have just recommend going to like Maps Aesthetic, which is more focused on, you know, focusing on specific body parts. But the way those mods work, you could pretty much run Maps Anabolic multiple times back to back and then switching the mods in for those because we change up the exercises and we increase the volume in there. But what you're thinking, I think you're right on par with what you should be doing. Now, Casey, how far are you through Maps Anabolic? Third phase, I think. Third? Yeah, I just started phase three on Monday and my quads are sore from Sissy Squats. Oh yeah, that's a brutal one. Now you said you've been getting good results, so I'm assuming you're getting stronger, you're noticing muscle gain, the whole thing? Yep. Cool. Yeah, everything's a bit like, I've trained since high school, but it's always been like on my own. I'm in my late 30s now. I've got four kids. My oldest son is a wrestler. And so like I'm just trying to keep up with them and stay active and flexible. And so going through an actual program like Anabolic has just been tremendous because I was overtraining before. So going down to three foundational workouts a week has been tremendous just because my fitness is no longer a point of stress and it just fits in better with our family dynamic and lifestyle. And so with the length of how long it takes me to get through those foundational workouts, I was curious about how many mods can I add in there because I was also eyeballing the shoulder mod as well. And so I appreciate the feedback to only incorporate one at a time. And then you can just run through Anabolic again with just a and rotate in whatever mod you want to work on next. Then I think the other thing we could do too, Doug, why don't you send them over Maps Aesthetic because that would be the next progression to what sounds like the direction you're heading. Isn't that great though, we can reduce the amount of times we're heading to the gym and actually see more results. Get stronger and more benefit. I've been banging my head against the wall for years of just having hit a plateau when it came to strengthen results. And then I was also on the intermittent fasting train for a long time and jumped off of that as soon as I started listening to you guys. And so getting off of that, reducing the high volume frequency of training and overtraining really and just having it more balanced. Like it was like flipping a switch. I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life. I feel great. I'm looking better. All right. And doing less work, right? That's so right. And doing less work. That's the thing. Like I've got friends, no, not to rag on CrossFit again, but I've got friends who are just like killing themselves every day doing these work out of the day stuff. And they're dying and they're not getting the results. They're going for it. So to go through y'all's programs and like just do the work. Just do what you're told and you'll get the results. Yeah. And you're learning a lot right now about how your body responds. So this is a great experience. One more thing you can do. You mentioned your shoulders on your trigger session days. Do like some band laterals, band front raises, band rear flies. Just get a little pump in your shoulders on your off days. Just put a little more emphasis on those. That's it. A couple of times. Literally twice a day, two to three times a day on your off days, get a pump in your shoulders with really light movement. Not super intense. Just get a pump. And that should also make a big difference in your shoulders. And it doesn't add lots of damage to the body. So you could do those simultaneously, the trigger sessions for your shoulders. Keep the set, remember, keep the intensity low, use bands, get a little bit of a pump, and then the bicep and tricep mods for the foundational days. And I think you'll be fine. Awesome. Thanks guys. Appreciate it. No problem, man. Thank you. Man, we're getting a lot of these guys that are just like tons of kids. He's got four kids and he's doing all this stuff. He's juggling. That's great, man. To me, this is one of my favorite things about what I feel like we've been able to do is to communicate this to the masses. There's always an exception. There's somebody who's listening right now who's a bodybuilder and responds well to a split seven days a week and they're competing. And maybe MAPS Anabolic isn't the perfect program for you. But I mean, it was the thing that connected us, man. When you sent that over to me, I'm like, man, this is the messaging that I know a majority of my clients would benefit tremendously from. And it's counter to what I thought and what most people thought. So I know that there's a lot of people out there that just they think that the more work and the more days they put in, that the more results they're going to have in their body. And there's the right dose for that. And I just think that the two to three day a week full body routine with triggers in between is just so realistic for people that have lives outside of the gym. And you can build, I mean, you heard him. He said, best shape of his life when he's in his late 30s before kids. I love, yeah, I love how he highlighted that, you know, how it made a massive difference. And then also what he highlighted was that we have mods too to experience our programs in a completely different way. Again, it keeps them fresh. It keeps them alive. And, you know, and there's ways to kind of incorporate that as well. We don't talk about that a lot because, you know, we have done, you know, put a lot of work in other directions in terms of other types of adaptations we're trying to acquire. But like to be able to, you know, go back, I know some people have run similar programs like over and over again, you know, look into the mods. There's new ways to kind of, you know, add that in and make it fresh again. Yeah. And then we made them very inexpensive on purpose because we wanted people to have that option, you know, to modify the workouts. It's why it's called a mod. But I can't stress this enough. The right dose will get you to your goals faster than the wrong dose. Bottom line. So more will get you there slower. Less will get you there slower. If you find the right dose for your body, you will get to your goals faster than if you do more or less. That's just the bottom line.