 Hey everybody, I'm Lance Coyke and today I want to field a question that was asked to me by another trainer and that is When are you okay with letting your clients work out on their own? The subtext here is a lot of people do some exercises with questionable technique that is Risking making training not fun, right? It's like if I'm deadlifting and Round my back a lot when I do my deadlift then I'm probably gonna have a really tight back and maybe even injure my back while I do my deadlifts and you know, maybe not but Probably the likelihood goes up and so in a case like that I'm probably not gonna say hey I want you to do these deadlifts on your own if you're you know, totally green new to Lifting new to deadlifting in particular then. Yeah, I might just say hey, how about you table this and we'll go over it again next time So that's it. I mean, that's a good reason to not let that happen, but Working out is still really important fitness is still really important So I do think that everybody should do something on their own and in a case like that I might just say hey go on a Cardio machine and do some sort of continuous exercise Maybe you do some Interval work where you push really hard for 30 seconds and then you pedal really easily for a minute and a half And that allows you to really recover and that also puts some stress on your muscle and the whole time You're stressing your cardiovascular system, which we know is Very important for long-term health That's kind of my philosophy on it, right? I want you to do absolutely everything that you are willing to do and there are only a few cases where I would say no That's not okay if you as a coach, you know that They're likely to get injured then I'd say yeah, you can cut it For the most part if they do some squats and they fall forward on their toes a little bit It's okay to do squats. Okay, just say hey When you get tired, you're gonna fall forward on your toes What I want you to do is make sure that you're driving through your heels on every set of your squats Okay, especially on that third set because I know you like to relax on that third set That's when it gets really hard and you start to lose focus. So make sure you stay focused on that You just give them a directive so that they can coach themselves And I think that's a really important lesson for everyone to learn that they can do these things on their own They just need to hold themselves Accountable a little bit Hopefully that helps in deciding when to allow your clients to exercise on their own