 Next question is from Conor Nagel 07. How do mini-bulks and cuts compare to traditional three-month intervals of bulking and leaning out? Well, you know, it's funny about this. We talked about mini-cuts and mini-bulks first year we started the podcast where we recommended, rather than people going on these long, you know, extended periods of time of dieting or bulking, just through our own experience, we saw better results when they were shorter periods and they were interrupted by kind of doing the opposite or by increasing calories enough to maintain. And in my experience, the shorter cuts result in more fat loss, less muscle loss, and the shorter bulks result in more muscle gain and less fat gain. Well, we now have studies that prove it. Okay, they have studies now that actually compare, you know, periods of time of dieting. One group has interruptions where they'll eat maintenance calories for a few days or a week in between versus the other group and sure enough, they burn more body fat and preserve more muscle when they do it. So that's the big difference. So, you know, and I want to add something to that. I would still recommend this even if the studies came out and didn't prove that. For the psychological reasons. Absolutely. Yeah. And that's the thing that we always got to look at too. And so, and I really think that that's the reason why I think we all came to that same conclusion over the years of training people is we, for sure, we felt confident, even without having a study to prove that this is the superior way to do it. And I think it's because, one, yes, the studies prove that it does, it does make a difference and it's better. But then also the psychological piece, which studies don't ever really talk about or very rarely do you talk about that in, you know, building muscle and fat burning studies. They don't bring up like, oh, psychologically, this is more people are going to be more consistent with this. But I think about that as a coach and as a trainer, because I have to get these people to follow these diets. Having somebody follow a diet for a couple weeks and then switching it up and going the other direction is so much easier than telling somebody for the next three months we are going to eat in this surplus or eat in this deficit every single day for this long of a period of time. That's super hard to get them to be consistent with that, where if I say listen to a client, what I need from you is just that the next two weeks we're going to eat just like this and then I'm going to change something up. It's so much it would be so much easier for my clients to stay focused for those two weeks because they knew that I was going to interrupt it soon. And even if they would go through a day where it's like, oh, hunger pains. This is really hard. They're like, I can do this. It's only seven more days. There's only three more days. And then Adam's going to give me more calories. Yeah, we guys always talk about the increase of mass that you actually gain when you're above a certain amount that you're, you know, trying to bulk anyway. And so it really doesn't look that advantageous to go, you know, exceed that, you know, sort of 500 calorie amount anyway, because for the most part it looks like you're gaining a lot of fat with muscle even if you're on pace. So, you know, just to keep it within those parameters and stretch it out a bit further seems like you're going to get closer to your goal and not just build mass you don't want. Yeah, and it results in less likelihood of, like especially if it's a cut, it's less, you're less likely to binge or go in the opposite direction in a big way. There you go on a three-month strict calorie deficit. You know, the odds that at the end of that you're going to go off the rails is much higher than if it's a three-week cut. Now, here's how it looks, okay? Here's how it would look. If your overall goal is fat loss, and let's say you want to lose 20 pounds and it takes you, I don't know, five months, let's just say, what the shortcuts mean is that you'll do a deficit for a few weeks and then you'll interrupt it with like a week of maintenance or a slight surplus. And then you go back to the cut. So a majority of the time you are to deficit because you do want to lose a lot of body fat, but you interrupt it at scheduled intervals. So it becomes mini cuts. That's what we mean by that. And then the reverse, if you want to bulk, same thing. You bulk for three weeks and then you have like a few days to a week where the calories are down a little bit to stimulate your appetite, reduce fat gain. That's what we mean by, it doesn't mean you go three weeks at every direction all the time. If your goal is ultimately a lot of fat loss, you got to stay more in the cut. If your goal is ultimately muscle gain, you stay more in the bulk. But interrupting it at short intervals, three weeks is the number that I typically work with, anywhere between three to two to four weeks, I would say. That seems to work best in experience and then again, the study support it.