 Next question is from Howie's mom. What is the benefit of doing an exercise sitting versus standing? Oh, yeah No, this is a great hi to howie. Yeah This is a great conversation because you see bodybuilders often We'll talk about doing things seated because they say things like they could feel the muscle more They can concentrate more on the connection then you hear like functional trainers and athletes talk about doing things standing Mm-hmm because of the stability component because they're engaging more of their body, right? Okay, which one is better? This is gonna be one of those situations where I'm gonna say they're both good They both have their value Training standing or training seated trains different recruitment patterns now you can work the biceps both ways But there's a recruitment pattern that is involved with the whole body and here's what ends up happening This is the funny thing. I remember when I used to think doing an overhead press standing was harder For example, then it's seated overhead press. I thought oh, yeah You're not gonna be able to lift as much standing as you can seated and that's because I always did him seated Then I did them always standing. In fact, I almost always do overhead presses standing now I can press more standing than I can't see it and all the highlights is you get you get good at one versus the other one But they do the most of yeah, but they both have their value I mean how do I toggle just how I feel right so because I think they both have value It's it's like some days. I'm in like like mr. Functional mode and everything I'm doing is like Standing or challenging stability and like that's the goal of the work out of the day, right? It's like oh today I want to just be really functional and I love to do stuff like that when I know like certain muscle groups are like really Really sore and I don't need to hammer a muscle group. I just I want to feel good I want to take things through full range of motion. I want to incorporate my entire body So then I'll make those choices then I have other days where I'm like Oh, I just want like this massive shoulder pump and I'm not really trying to work Anybody else any other parts of my body right now and I'm just gonna sit down and do all this stuff And so I bounce back and forth. Oh, I used to be the trainer that was like a total snob about like sitting down I'm like nobody's sitting down. Yeah, we're working everything you're gonna do is standing in a split stance like We're we're using your body, you know, you're anchoring your body you're figuring out how to adjust You know and compensate for that and and be able to stabilize properly So I was just always thinking in the functional realm And less in you know in the hypertrophy realm and so it there's definitely a switch that happened for me Once I started to kind of then again like you said like I went into sitting and doing overhead press Even as an example and I and I couldn't lift what I thought I could lift and it was really just a different stimulus Different recruitment pattern that I wasn't applying and so the definite value in that the truth is though If you were to only do one and not the other if you had to pick. Yeah, if you had to pick Oh, yeah standing standing because more carry over for the reason like you say, okay, you're never for my clients I was always you're never gonna find yourself Sitting down in a chair having to lift 100 200 pounds of your head. You just won't wait or if you will I'll wait. Tell me where would you do that? Where would you sit down and then someone hands you 100 some pounds and you have to lift it over your head But there may be lots of times in your life where you have to pick something up, you know While you're standing on the ground and lifted over your head you mean playing with my son I do that all the time, right? So it's just way more functional to be like you said completely connected from your feet Oh, you had to pick. Yeah, if you had to put a perfect scenario you incorporate both. Yeah, we've in and out Yeah, both of them have value. I like doing both of them depend like Adam said depending on how I feel If you had to pick one go standing, but look this is there's a reason why When you do a different exercise is that look very similar they feel different. There's there's just there's a reason for I mean look I'll tell you what you could do a standing lateral right standing standing lateral with dumbbells or you could do standing one arm lateral Same exercise feels different. It totally does feel different and they both have value So and that has to do with the way the body communicates with itself and how muscles work together No muscle works in complete isolation. Yeah, and so it's the combination of muscles. That's how you're holding yourself It's the position of your body look at us as Z press seated Z press I mean that feels very different than a seated on a bench press and definitely very different than a standing overhead press Do they all have value they do? Yeah