 Our next caller is Heather from North Carolina. Hey Heather, how can we help you? Hi, so I'm getting married in October and right now I'm a travel nurse. Just to give a little context, I have a background mostly in endurance training, marathons, half-iron mans, that kind of thing. So I'm looking for just some recommendations for the direction that I should go with my fitness regimen as I move towards the wedding. I've never really had an aesthetic goal or a timeline for when I want to look or feel a certain way and to give a little bit of background for my weight training. I have about four years of somewhat weightlifting experience and when I say weightlifting, I mean picking up and putting down weights about four years ago, but I really started weight training about two years ago with powerlifting, Olympic lifting and that kind of thing and CrossFit. I'm sorry guys, but any recommendations that you have, I'm open to them. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Yeah, so how much time do we have again? What's the time frame for the wedding? So I get married October 9th. And so what's your ultimate goal? Is there an aesthetic goal or is there a performance goal that you have for that? I think short-term, like pre-wedding, more aesthetic. But long-term, I'm an athlete. I've always been an athlete. I think performance would be a great direction to kind of transition maybe after the wedding. But yeah, for the wedding itself, aesthetic would be the goal. Well, your focus right now. Yeah, if it's aesthetic, then I would focus really make the cornerstone of your workouts, resistance training. That's what's going to give you the sculpted look. It's what's going to speed up your metabolism, make it easier to get lean and then nutrition. Those two things are going to give you the aesthetic goals that you have. Now, after the wedding, what you can do is you could trade resistance training workouts for performance or athletic type workout. So let's say you like to run. And let's say leading up to the wedding, you're lifting weights three or four days a week, which is probably a good routine. After the wedding, you could back down to two days a week of resistance training or one day a week of resistance training and then run two or three days a week. But leading up to the wedding, if it's aesthetic, train like a bodybuilder and look at your nutrition. Those two things will get you looking the best, the fastest versus anything else. Well, we have a little more time. If I'm doing my math right, we have like four to five months. So me, what I would do with you is I would run anabolic first, and then I would trans and then I would transition you into maps aesthetic. And then when you get done with your wedding, then I'd pull you back to either a one day a week with anabolic with your running or like a maps performance type of a program. So that's what your programming would look like for me. And that you have plenty of time. So I think that we could do a lot. I think the anabolic is a perfect transition from what you're coming from and a great place in start shoots. Also the way we wrote it with that intention to start most people up. Now, technically, I would normally move you to performance, but since we have an aesthetic goal and we have a timeframe, I would skip you right into maps aesthetic. So that's what the programming would look like. Just challenge yourself because it is going to be a completely different shift of focus. I know for me, specifically, I'm always kind of trying to voice this that, you know, I don't really focus on hypertrophy that much. But when you do go all in that direction, your body is going to, you know, definitely change and it's going to respond in a different way. It's a totally different way to train and stimulate the body. So just trust in the process of that. I know a lot of athletes like have a hard time because they want to jump back and do functional type exercises and things that will apply more towards like their true passion. But you know, go all in would be my suggestion. Okay. And yeah. And just to give a little bit more background, I'm a travel nurse now. So right now, when I'm traveling with I have about 170 pounds, including a bar that I'm working with. And then I have 25 pound dumbbells. And the last like week or so, I've done starting strengths with like the Mark Reptile program. And I kind of thought that was maybe a good way to start transitioning into doing more weightlifting for the time being. Yeah, that's that's a solid routine. But I would go maps, anabolic maps aesthetic and you have enough, you have enough weights to be able to do both programs, both of them come with a dumbbells only version as well. So they can both be modified for the equipment that you have. Do you have access to either one of those programs? I don't. All right, we'll send that over to you. Okay. Well, thank you so much. Yeah. And congratulations on getting married. Yeah. Thank you very much. Try it. Good luck. Thank you. Yeah, the, the, I want to look good, but I also like to run. Like to run a lot. Yeah. I mean, I'm not necessarily, you know, talking crap about running, but when it comes to aesthetics and getting lean and having the sculpted look, it's not the ideal way to do that. It's far from it. Yeah. This is a completely different goal. So yeah, that's again, it's the same on the other end of it. It's like, I want my cake, but I want to eat it too. It's, you know, it's the athletes, I can identify with this. In terms of like having to then do what I don't really normally do because, you know, that's, that's what's going to have the most impact on my body. I think it's because everybody has a person in their life like that, right? The, the friend who, who runs and they have like that great physique also. And so you see that and you're like, oh, you know, well, he does this or she does all that. And I like that. And I like to do that. It's just wherever your starting point is, if your goal is aesthetic, you know, to change your physique, right? Your body composition, running is just not the ideal way to get there. Now, if you get there, you build the physique you want, and then you want to introduce running into the routine because you love doing it. But I think that's a great strategy and there's nothing wrong with it. I think it's a very healthy way to live. But people will just, for some reason, still think that that is like a really good strategy to get. Well, especially when you have a timeline, you know, like, like it just be specific with, with your goals.