 Next question is from Neal Robert Curran. Can you recommend a good shoe for squatting and deadlifting? Does it make a difference or would you bother? Different shoes for these here. Yeah, it really depends on the person too. So ideally, okay, let's say you have great mobility, great stability, good foot strength, everything looks good. Barefoot or as barefoot as close to barefoot as possible would be best for all lifts. Flexible flat soles. Because you're working with your feet are strong, your ankle mobility is good, hip mobility is good, everything looks good. Now what you don't want is you don't want something under your foot that's going to be a crutch or prevent you from strengthening all your stability, right? But that's not typically the case, right? With most people, they have issues and so let's say you have bad ankle and foot mobility and strength and you go and try and do barefoot deadlifting or barefoot squatting especially. You might hurt yourself. In that case, you might want to transition and start with something that has a strong stable sole especially for squatting. Something that maybe has a little bit of a heel rise in it so squat shoes, very stable, little bit of a heel rise. I don't think you should stay there. I think you should slowly and gradually work on your ankle mobility and your foot mobility in order to do that. Deadlifts, you probably do want a nice strong sole but flat because you want to be lower to the ground if you have a little bit of a rise in your ankle. Deadlifts don't require nearly as much ankle mobility as squats do and also if you have a rise in your heel it just throws your weight forward anyway which makes it the deadlift less effective. You have to address this because it's a popular thing I see and I don't know why this is common and maybe just because I think the people that buy the shoes don't understand using squat shoes with heel raises in a deadlift is silly. You're making it more challenging for yourself. You're not helping yourself whatsoever. You want to be lower. Your heels to the ground is your heels as flat as possible. You're adding an extra inch of pull that you have to do now. That's why they're called squat shoes and not deadlift shoes. Wearing those shoes while you're also deadlifting is not ideal. It's interesting though. Sal was actually the first person to introduce squat shoes to me. Again, I was never into powerlifting, even lifting very heavy and this was back when we were really picking apart my squat and improved it and Sal was like, you should really try these squat shoes, see if it really helps you out. And boy it was. It was a game changer for me because I lacked the ankle mobility. I went on a kick for a while where I was wearing squat shoes a lot when I was squatting because it did feel a lot better because it was crutching my lack of mobility in my ankles. Then I went on that whole hardcore kick of working on my mobility, got rid of the shoes, didn't do it at all, trained a lot of barefoot training. Now what I love to do because I train mostly in chucks with barefoot most of the time, but every once in a while I'll go to do some heavy squats and I'll throw those squat shoes on and it's like a turbo. Yeah, it's like a turbo. Now I'm getting an extra inch that I don't have to squat in a sense, right? When you think about that, I have less range of motion that my knee has to travel and so it's easier. So if I've done a good job of working on my ankle and hip mobility for a long time consistently, which I have and most of the time squatting in flat shoes or barefoot, every once in a while when I throw them squat shoes on, it reminds me of the feeling of having the belt and not having the belt. It's like when you train mostly without a belt, then you go throw that sucker on there once in a while. It's like, oh, you get a little extra gear out of it. Yeah, it's interesting because I probably wore running shoes and cross trainers a lot in my career just because the athletic background and whatnot, it was a lot more movement-based and running and athleticism and all that kind of stuff. And when I actually was in this gym, I saw a lot of my coworkers wearing chucks and they were doing everything in chucks or those five finger shoes. And I was the guy making fun of them and all that kind of stuff. But I started to realize, I mean, having running shoes, running shoes are literally engineered to get you to be able to move forward. Everything is moving forward. Nothing is considered side-to-side and cushioned. And so it's like, I mean, I can't tell you how many times I almost rolled my ankle just going side-to-side or twisting or rotating or doing anything like that. That's the worst shoe that you could train in. So I just wanted to throw that out there. That's a great point. Oh, dude, you ever see someone heavy squat and they've got like Nike Max Air running shoes? It's like they're standing on dyna discs. They got these shoes. Yeah. You don't want to use running shoes for heavy lifting because there's so much cushion that they're unstable unless that's what you're trying to do. That's the adjustment point, left to right, which is where you see those injuries happen. Lots of injuries in that direction. Have you guys seen the deadlift shoes that powerlifters use? Just back to what you were saying about not wearing squat shoes. Deadlift shoes, have you seen them? They look like socks. That's how thin they make the sole because you want to be flat and low to the ground. So yeah, don't wear anything with the heel rise if you're deadlifting. I work out in my garage. That's when I go barefoot. I take off my shoes flat to the floor. Barefoot is liberating. I mean, you've got to work your way there, but it's definitely a whole other experience. Absolutely.