 First question is from Jeremy Longpray. Do you guys recommend de-load weeks in between phases of your programs? If so, how often and what would you recommend they look like? Okay, so specifically in regards to our programs... I get this a lot. Yeah, no. Not unless you think you need one. But the way we designed our programs was you just... Yeah, we thought ahead of this. Yeah, you follow it through. In fact, if you follow multiple programs, because here's the ideal way, right? So let's say you've been listening to Mind Pump for a while and you're very, very serious about your fitness. You very trust we know we're doing. Yeah, you're like, okay, I think these guys know what they're talking about. I'm very serious about whatever my goal is, building muscle, burning body fat. I want to do like a six-month run or nine months or a year or whatever, following their programs. You follow the programs back to back and they're essentially designed to be able to be run that way. Now, the way you would do a D-load week would be based off of feel. Well, first of all, since you just said that, and I get this question all the time, you should explain to people what that order looks like. Oh, well... Unless you've been with us since day one, you don't probably know what that order is. For most people listening, generally speaking, a great way to go through the programs would be MAPS Anabolic, then you would go MAPS Performance, then you would go MAPS Aesthetic. Then if you want to go more of the bodybuilding route, you could do MAPS Split. If you want to go more functional strength type of stuff, you can go MAPS Strong. If you want to do more powerlifting, then you can go MAPS Power Lift from this. And if you really want to maintain mobility and stuff throughout the whole process, using something like MAPS Prime. But they've all been really designed. Like we started with the core of what, no matter what your goal is, the core three is kind of like the idea of... And MAPS Anabolic, MAPS Performance, MAPS Aesthetic. Right. And then from there, you can kind of take more specific paths, right? Am I more, like you said, bodybuilder-ish? More strongman-ish? Am I more powerlifting-ish? And kind of going that direction. Yeah. And you won't need... If you're healthy, your nutrition's good, you're doing everything right, you're following the programs as they're laid out, you're not going to need to do de-load weeks. But if your body's not feeling good, if you're feeling run down, then a de-load week can actually be quite advantageous. It could actually benefit you quite a bit. I think people... Now, if you're like a really high-level athlete, then the de-load week can get very technical. But for most people, a de-load week can be literally just... This week, I'm going to go in the gym, I'm going to go 50% intensity. Just go super easy. That's it. It could be that simple. Or this week, I'm not going to go to the gym, and all I'm going to do is mobility and correctional exercise. Like that would be a great way to do it. Because I think some... And this probably is from the, I would say, the powerlifting world. They tend to be really technical with their de-loads, but they're dealing with high-level athletes. Well, they're also the most likely to need a de-load week, too. I mean, of all the lifting that I've done, when I train most like a powerlifter, is when I flirt with needing the de-load week more than anything else. Because you're lifting a heavy load. You're fielding the joints. Yeah, stress on the joints. And that's kind of... If you're not following any maps programs and you're wanting to know this answer, it's a definitely... It depends. It really depends on the programming or how intense you've been training. And normally, you know. Like if you... And signs of that fatigue, you'll see strength decrease. You'll be like, oh, my God, last week I was benching X, and now I'm only benching this. So if you're decreasing in strength or achy joints, major stiffness and achy joints, those three are the major indicators that there's a good chance you could benefit from de-loading for a week. And that de-load week could be as basic as sows thing where you just back off 50% of the load. 50% of what you would be doing will reduce the intensity, probably let you recover it. Or if it's really bad, you wouldn't hurt from doing all mobility. And I remember the first time learning of the value of a de-load week, I was in my late teens and my family had planned a big family vacation. And up at this point, I'd been working out consistently for at least a few years and I was very obsessed with working out. Never missed a workout. Definitely overdoing it more often than not. And we went on this vacation and I did not have access to a gym. And so it was a week. And so what I did during that week is I, you know, I tried doing some push-ups here and there and some pull-ups wherever I could, but I basically didn't work out. And I remember going back to the gym on the week when we came back to be stronger. And I walked in and worked out and I was lifting more. And I remember thinking like, this is crazy. For sure I thought I'd get weaker because I didn't work out for a whole week. And that's when I started to really realize like, okay, if I'm not allowing my body, the right amount of time to rest and recover, then it's not going to build. It just won't. And that's when I started to figure out, okay, this is something that might be. Sometimes too a de-load doesn't need to be a de-load week either. Sometimes it's just a few days. Yeah. Sometimes like I, and this is probably something that I, more commonly happens with me is I do back-to-back workouts where I kind of overreached. And I knew I shouldn't have. I still did it anyways. And then my body goes, yep, you did. And then that to me is like, okay, I'm just going to pull back for the next two or three days. And instead of staying on this track of training this intense, I'm going to back off the intensity for a few days or again, focus all on mobility for a few days. So it doesn't always have to be an entire week either. It's just, it's a great thing for you to learn to do is to read and listen to the signals your body is trying to give you when you are overtraining and overreaching. And nobody knows better than you if you're this type of person. Like we openly admit that even as trainers and knowing better, it's very common that we still overreach all the time, still do that even though we know better. And so when, you know, and when I do this, I know that I got to back off and de-load a little bit. If you're that person, then you got to pay attention to those signs. You could also be the other side, which, you know, I'm careful. All you need is an excuse to not work. Yes. And so that's why this is definitely a depends question because I also used to have clients that was looking for an excuse to not train. I think it's a lot less common that you need a de-load week. I would agree. You know what I'm saying? Unless you're in the space. Like if you're doing it forever and you've been super safe, if you love working out and you've been training consistently for a long time or you're in the fitness space, you more likely are the people that are probably overreaching and could get a lot of benefit from de-loading. But I would say for most people listening, if you follow our programs and you follow them one after another, Yeah, you shouldn't. You're, we'll be all right. We design them to be able to be run concurrently in that way. And in fact, we design them to get progressively more effective in terms of your body's progress. So what you'll find is as you're following the programs, as you move to the next one and then move to the next one, your body's going to continue to make No, that's a great point. This is, and that's why we recommend an order because if, let's say you are a brand new beginner and you've never lifted before and you decide to buy a MAPS PED, there's a good chance you might need a de-load after that. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Because that is, you're way overreaching for somebody who is just getting started and you shouldn't go into a program that's that intense, that much volume. And that's the reason why we tell everybody they should go red, green, and then black in that order is because it progressively starts to build the volume up. Then from there, all the ones that have a much higher volume, you should have adapted to the more and more volume through the course of those three programs that you can handle taking on one of the other programs. We actually put those three programs in a bundle where we discounted them significantly. It's called the RGB bundle, red, green, black, that refers to the color of the programs because MAPS anabolic's red, MAPS performance is green, and then MAPS aesthetic is black.