 All right first question is from red surf bus Is it better to drop a ret rep and increase weight by a larger amount or progress with smaller fractional plates? Either they're both They're both good now. Here's the thing. I've I've experiment. Have you guys ever experimented with? Adding a quarter to a half pound in your workouts on an incremental slow basis What was your guys's experience? No, it's it's a very smart strategy. Most people don't have the patience to do it But it's actually a great strategy. I think that's the key there It's like it really like you have to be patient and you have to like be Proactively like doing that like every workout you're thinking about that and like I don't know I went through a phase where I did that and it did you know pay off for me But it was it felt like more of a struggle to the problem is that the frat the plates that you get now Conventional plates don't go lower than two and a half pounds. So that means if you add one on each side Yeah, you're going up by five pounds, which is sounds small, but it's still a substantial amount to go up But at one point I used to have these collars that you put on the sides of the bar and the collars themselves Wade like you know half a pound or whatever and so I'd go up by like a pound at a time That really was actually quite remarkable. I got pretty good results by by doing that But anyway to answer the question. I think there's value both ways. You totally either way you're you're adding You know weight you're adding volume in the in the form of adding weight to your workouts It's progressive resistance regardless of how you do it both ways have total value Yeah I think something like if I really got into like something like powerlifting I would totally like apply this this method like more and be more detailed because I'm writing down like very Specifically like each time I'm trying to progress and I'm writing down my results and then what I've added on You know like even if it's fractional. I'm adding that on so it totally adds up over time People always want to want us to tell them what is better this or that and usually it's either right It's it's almost always that right? I'm trying to give a case when it hasn't been I mean There's there's some examples I guess that are that are very obvious and extreme but for the most part like it's It's rarely ever in either or it's you know It's whichever one that you probably do most of the time The other one is super beneficial at that point because your body has gotten used to that and adapted to that so Doing it doing something different is going to add more value. So and both have value So there's and I think why this and this is part of what annoys me about our space is that you know You take something and you could separate this right? We could totally separate these two things two camps immediately Right, we could do a study. We could go for six weeks and we could show this control all these things and go like Oh, well, it looks like that the group a that incrementally went up, you know Gained, you know 1% more strength than group B But the truth is if group a continues on doing the same thing as group a forever Then switching things up and being group B would actually probably be the most beneficial thing. So and that kind of Fall suit I think with almost everything we discussed now that now that being said Just to be completely honest I I don't know what this is But I rarely ever add Anything under 20 or 50 pounds on the bar when I want to go up I tend to I just don't like adding small plates. Maybe it's an ego thing I don't know I get caught up in that too. So I know we're not alone with that It's just one of those things you just kind of like pick your like your next amount and sometimes 20 something You just know how, you know, you can ramp it up Based on the feeling of where you're at the smallest amount is 20 pounds, which is not small That's a big jump. It is a big and what I do is I wait till my reps get high And then I said, oh, I can add 20 pounds and I slap, you know, 20 pounds We used to say so if for chest back and legs, okay, so they're big muscle groups Like you're not allowed to do anything less than a quarter. That was like 10s and fives were for arms, bro If somebody went out, yeah, somebody slid a 10 on a on a squad It'd be we'd laugh at each other and be like your ego. No, but that's totally wrong. But to be to be honest It's smarter to incrementally Add weight, um, you know, you don't necessarily, I mean, I never did with the clients I'd never train clients where I'm like, oh, looks like you're stronger. Let's add 50 pounds. Like I never did that I did that to myself because You know, as a trainer, I train other people better than I train myself. So But yeah, either one can definitely have value Um, do the one that you haven't been doing so if you tend to add Larger amounts go to the fractional Adding of the weight if you tend to do the fractional one, which is probably more rare than I'd say Go the other direction