 First question is from take K. Why are iron man athletes muscular even though they do excessive cardio? Oh good question. Okay, killer or lean. Well, they also cut they got some decent muscle on their bodies compared to the average person I'm gonna admit that but here's what here's the thing that people need to stop doing stop looking at the pinnacle of physical performance and then using that as proof or evidence of a particular Training methodology because here's what you're gonna find when you look at the top top level of Any sport whether it be endurance or strength or whatever they all have exceptional genetics Exceptional genetics, so if you took the average person and you got them to train like an iron man athlete They would not look like the top level well iron man. Okay. I I decided because I I don't even know where this person Is coming from at all so I I decided to put Iron Man athlete in Google and look at the images and I'm scrolling down right now and I don't see anybody Muscular here's what you need to understand is that we all have muscle even if you don't train your muscles You have muscle and if you get really really lean you see more of that muscle So the perception of them being muscular is that they're super lean That's true more than anything else. You don't see any buff iron man. No, they're ripped But but lean it's not an advantage. Yeah, look at look at all of us show me Would you define as muscular? Well Doug look up. I would say lean at best look up by the way if you're and I'm not This is not me shitting on any by any means. It's me trying to clarify someone Misconstruing what a muscular the definition of what muscular is that I would not define that as muscular at all Doug Look up world top ranked Iron Man athletes So we could get at least that because here's here's a thing that again I want to make this case here at the highest levels of competition People have incredible ability incredible genetics to preserve muscle even if they're trying to take it off their body Okay, we're scrolling right now. We've seen already 30. I haven't seen one muscular person. No, I yeah, I gotta agree Yeah, I mean that some some have like some lean like defined arms. Yeah, again We have 40 people 50 people how many more top ranked iron men and women do you need to see before it? It's a terrible definition of but to be fair. They look different than the top the merits runners Yeah, you know because they do they do incorporate more the body cycling and they're swimming. Yes But so they build a little bit more muscle, but I'm gonna make this fast-twitch movement But again, I'm gonna make this argument you take the average person You have them trained just like a top level Iron Man athlete They probably won't look like that Because when you're at that level you have the genetic ability to preserve muscle even when you try and take it off your body Sure, sure, so yes, they're not jacked, but they have more muscle I mean, I guess your point and you're right like your your point is it's it's terrible I mean it's just like a bodybuilding like you should not look at bodybuilders and compare well They only do they train this way or do this it's like dude They're all you're an anomaly if you are the if you are on the stage to build on Yeah, you know regardless if Annapal all that bullshit like that it takes a certain genetics to get to that level So I get your point. We're going I'm just saying that this to me This highlights more what we've shared before about being lean is I remember okay My whole career trying to get bigger and never being on a diet and cutting because I I didn't I never had a problem with being Kind of leaner. I always couldn't get bigger. Yeah, and the first time I decided to get lean I got more your look would be huge and big compliments than I ever had in my life And that's just because you can see my muscle more and so it's I didn't get I didn't add any more muscle You just leaner. Yeah, here's a better comparison if you want to compare two similar sports one more Aerobic and in endurance base sprinter versus. Yes. Yeah do a sprinter versus an endurance They are buff that look at the difference for sure They're buff you look at a sprinter look at a long-distance runner and there's a dramatic difference Huge how their bodies yes sprinters are buff as shit. Yeah, and that's because they're not running for longer than about 30 seconds It's the same thing with those cycle Races where they sprint through and do those bro. There's their legs are huge. There's just one athlete I don't know his name his legs look ridiculous. It doesn't even make it looks like a Godzilla. It's insane looking Yeah, but you know, okay, so this is the example I like to give to people because trying to explain the range of genetic, you know variants there is for Muscle building it feels a bit abstract because you can't necessarily see it Like just with people walk around and you can see it But it's not as easy to see is like height is right. It's easy to see with height And if you think about the amount of times you've seen anybody in real life I'm talking about everyday life going to the grocery store going to the store, you know going to work Think of all the times in your life You've ever seen anyone that was over seven feet tall you either a never in your life unless you went to an NBA game or B Once and you remember it. I literally one time in my life saw someone aside from watching a pro game Right saw a guy over seven feet. I was at the airport and I remember looking and going. That's a giant that looks great He was probably an NBA player B. J. Armstrong and Bill Cartwright came into my restaurant and it was just like It was like a giant Yes, like enter the building and that's one end of the extreme with height right on the other end of the extreme Right are people with you know dwarfism and then everybody else's most people are somewhere in the middle That's what it's like for muscle building those giants that are so rare. You never see them in real life That's how rare it is to have the muscle building genetics that produce the freaks that you see that you go I don't want to look like that if I you know if I lift weights. I'm gonna end up looking like that No, you won't you're not Because you the odds are you don't have that one in a billion. Yeah, you know I just think that this highlights more that perception of what lean is. That's what I think I think people and That just shows you that's what's great about getting really lean If you've never leaned out and got to single-digit body fat like you will look more muscular So if you're turns heads, yeah So if you're somebody who's watching and listening and you've you're always trying to bulk because you already feel like because I wish Someone would told me that like sooner because I spent 10 years on a bulk You know thinking that I need to get bigger bigger bigger bigger the minute I decided to lean out and just get really shredded all of a sudden everybody thought I got bigger I remember Like one of my ex-girlfriends telling me that like you're better off being skinny with abs than being big with No abs. It was so pissed off about that because I just want to be big and I don't care Never subscribe That's a lie Pure lies