 Our next caller is Will from Texas. Hey, Will, how can we help you? What's your question? First, Will, tell us why Sal annoys you so much. Yeah. I know you express that. That's OK. Now go ahead and ask your question. All right. So my wife is pregnant, and I would like to know how I should be structuring my workout pre-baby. And more importantly, during the sleepless nights of the first couple of months when he is born, I'd like to continue my strength goals. Hey, congratulations. First, second, third. You did it. Which baby is this? Yes. First. Yeah. You are in for it, my friend. Yeah. Don't listen to him. It's hella easy. Don't listen to him. It's hella easy, man. OK, so there's a couple strategies that you could take. So I'll give you my favorite strategy. I've worked with a lot of mothers that were pregnant and their husbands during that period of time. And so I like to tell people to go into the birth at a good fitness level. And the reason why I recommend this is because you're going to miss workouts. You're not going to be as rested after the baby is born for at least a couple months, if not more. And so you want to give yourself a bigger buffer. So go into it doing pretty well. So right now you have the time. Do some good workouts. Have good nutrition. That way, if you fall off, you don't fall off too far. Now, when the baby's born and you're losing sleep, sleep is a priority. Do not make the mistake of pushing through it with the lack of sleep. You will hammer not just your testosterone levels, but your immune system if you do that. So a good workout, a general workout when you're limited on time and availability or whatever is like a two or three day a week full body workout where you're just focusing on the main lifts. You're just doing the big compound lifts. What do your workouts look like right now, Will? So right now I'm in phase, about halfway through phase two of MAPS PowerLift. Excellent, excellent. How's it going for you, by the way? I'm about to be 30 in April. No, how's it going for you with the workouts? Oh, sorry. It's going good. So far, so good. I'm actually transitioning to building a home gym because of how crazy the gyms are gonna be now. But it's going good. Strength is progressing pretty nicely, I think. So the advice that Sal gave is exactly how I did it. Like I really, I knew that I was gonna have to sacrifice some days in the gym. I knew that I'd sacrifice some sleep. And so I had some pretty good momentum going into her pregnancy. So I just kind of, I tried to push the volume, try to be as consistent as I possibly could. And it's disciplined knowing that the inevitable is going to happen, that I'm gonna have days. And I actually, the first couple weeks, because he's so attached to her, and you can't really, as a father, there's not a lot you can do for the first couple weeks. I still had really good momentum for those first couple weeks. It wasn't until I'd say probably weeks three and four did it get really challenging for like me getting to the gym and her being able to get to the gym. And so, then my workouts started to look kind of like a MAPS anabolic phase one. And then eventually it even got as bad as probably like pre-phase. And no doubt, like I lost some strength. I didn't, I don't look as good as I did right before I came in to pregnancy. But I mean, it's, we're back in the swing of things. I think I've already surpassed where I was before that. And it only took about a month to rebound and get back because I still maintain some training, but my priority became my wife and child. You know, and that's really where it should be for you too. It's like, if you can get in there as a new dad and still get one or two full body workouts in while you're going through all this at the very beginning, I think you're killing it. Everything you're doing right now is what you're gonna kind of carry going forward. And I think like, what you're trying to do in terms of like building your base of strength and having your intensity up right now is a good way to go. And then really just shifting your mindset once you're in the thick of it because it is gonna change everything. So you just gotta adjust. One more option too, Will, is especially if you have a home gym is to do many workouts. So, you know, like 15, 20 minute workouts here and there. I did a lot of that. Yeah, two a day or three a day sometimes or one a day sometimes. Basically going out to your home gym when you have a little bit of time and doing a few sets of an exercise. And believe it or not, the body, especially when it's new, the body response really do well for that. Sal, I love that advice. And I don't have the luxury of having the gym in my actual house, but the studio's not far from my house and I would do this a lot. And because, you know, the baby's feeding every two hours and napping afterwards. And so those little 30 minute hour naps were perfect times for me to get a couple exercises in. And that's how I look at it is if you can do that and you have an at home gym where maybe you can stick to the routine that you're already on, but you just break it up in two or three mini workouts throughout the day, there's a lot of value to that. So I think that's a great strategy also. Totally, congratulations again. And thanks for the question, Will. Thank you. Thank you. Yep. You know, that's such a, that's a hard one, right? Because it really depends on, I mean, I'm lucky, right? Like Katrina, it really handles a lot of the nights and takes the responsibility, we have support. And so I know that I have a lot more flexibility and some dads have to be doing all that stuff. And so hands on. Yeah, so asking him to get up in the middle of the night and be doing a lot of feedings with her. And then in addition to that, also be trying to progress your workouts. That's a lot to ask somebody. It is, it's a tough situation. That's why I like to say go into it, you know, really fit because you're gonna lose some of it. Exactly, yeah. And it's better to have that buffer.